167 



(Journal Elder Expl. Exped., p. 7). The Spring is in 30' 30' south latitude, and 123' 45' 

 east longitude, north-east of Kalgoorlie. We have other specimens collected by the 

 same expedition, as follows : — 



(a) Camp 45, Victoria Desert (R. Helms, Elder Exploring Expedition, 8th 

 September, 1891). 



{b) Victoria Desert (R. Helms, Elder Exploring Expedition, 2nd September, 

 1891), (labelled E. lodtiana by a slip of the pen). The following note refers to these 

 specimens : — W.A.,near Barrow Range, Victoria Desert (C. 45 and 60), " Desert Gum, 

 30-45 feet.^' [Proc. Roy. Soc. S.A., xvi, 358). Barrow Range is approximately 

 26^ south latitude, and 127° 20' east longitude. 



We are now approaching South Australia and the Northern Territory. 



South Australia. 



E. eudesmioides is shown in the map of the Elder Exploring Expedition over 

 large areas in South Australia, and although I have not seen a South Australian specimen, 

 I readily agree that it is found in that State, since it has been found in extra-tropical 

 Western Australia adjacent to the South Australian border, and also in the Northern 

 Territory not far from the South Australian boundary. 



Mueller and Tate (Proc. Roy. Soc. S.A., xvi, 358) record a " variety with ovate 

 leaves, 25 miles S.S.W. of Mt. Watson.'' I have not seen the specimen and it would be 

 desirable to re-examine it. 



Northern Territory. 



In the desert country (from the George Gill Range to Ayers Rock and Mt. Olga), 

 at p. 81 of the Horn Expedition Narrative, Prof. Bald\\-in Spencer says, " All the morning 

 we were traversing low sandhills, on many of which grew a fine sandhill gum, E. 

 eudesmioides, which reached a height of 50 to 80 feet. The trunk is silver-grey in colour 

 and very shiny, except the butt, where it is covered with a paper-like bark which peels 

 ofi in long, yeUow-brown scales. The grey-green foliage usually forms a kind of umbrella 

 shaped mass, and it is somewhat strange to find a big tree like this right out amongst 

 the waterless sandhills." 



Tanami Goldfield is situated in North-western Central Australia in latitude 

 19° 58' and east longitude 129° 45' (approx. about 48j miles east of the boundary 

 between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It is 696 miles (550 by track 

 and 146 by railway) from Darwin, or 400 miles (by track via Mucka) from the "Victoria 

 River depot. 



In Mr. Lionel C. E. Gee's " General Report on Tanami Goldfield and district" 

 (S.A. Parliamentary Paper, 1911) — from Tanami to Mucka on the Victoria River, 

 Desert Gums (probably E. eudesmioides) were encountered (see p. 6 of Report). 



