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I published the following note concerning it in 1911 : — 



A white gum, a smooth-barked straggling tree of 20 feet, with a diameter of 9 inches and very little 

 scaly bark. As a rule seen as a bush. Wood pale chocolate brown towards the heart, but most of it white. 

 Branchlets brown, giving the tree a brownish cast. Juvenile leaves lanceolar, rarely broad. Leaves 

 pale-green, glaucous, equally green on both sides. Leaves in opposite stage to top of tree. It is the 

 exception for them to be alternate. Fruits yellowish, quadrangular. I only came across it at Minginew, 

 where it is rare. {Journ. W,A. Nat- Hist. Soc, Vol. III.) 



RANGE. 



The type comes from sandy plains and limestone hills near the Murchison River, 



■ Western Australia. It was for many years believed to be confined to that State, but 



I show it to also occur in South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a species 



of dry country. Drummond had previously collected it, under No. 69 (6th Collection). 



The following two specimens were received from Mueller, and are doubtless 

 typical : — 



(a) Shrubby, 6-8 feet. Sand plain north of Mount Curious, Murchison River 

 (Augustus Oldfield). 



(b) " Eucalyptus ' Myallie ' of the aborigines (evidently the same as 'Mallalie' 

 in the original description), from Pindaryah, north of Murchison " (Augustus Oldfield). 



" E. eudesmioides has been traced by the writer in 1877 from the Arrowsmith 

 River to near Shark's Bay over sand and limestone ground" (Mueller, in " Eucalypto- 

 graphia "). Found near Freycinet Harbour (Mueller, Shark Bay Report). 



Following are additional localities : — 



" Mallee, 10-12 feet high." Sand plains between Mogumber and Gillingarra 

 (W. V. Fitzgerald). In another label on specimens from the same locality he says, 

 " Sandy hillsides; stems smooth-barked." 



Carnamah, Midland Railway line (Dr. A. Morrison). 



Mt. Muggawah, Yandanooka, Arrowsmith River district (Dr. A. Morrison). 



Small tree of 20-25 feet, Mingenew (W. V. Fitzgerald, J.H.M.). Shrub of l|-3 

 metres, or small tree, young branches purplish, leaves glaucous. North of Mingenew 

 (Dr. L. Diels, No. 3035). 



The above localities are all at no great distance from the west coast ; the following 

 take a leap into the dry country easterly and we have no intermediate records. 



" The fine growth of Eucalyptus etidesmioides (Desert Gum) extending for over 

 100 miles gave the country a very pleasing aspect." Vicinity of Queen Victoria Spring. 



