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RANGE. 



" Grows on hard clay soil, often stony, and always some distance from water. 

 Generally in clumps and often in company of Gidgee and Brigalow in tte Charters 

 Towers district." (I\Iiss Zara Clark.) 



Eeid Eiver, a few miles south of Townsvdlle (N. Daley). 



" The principal timber of the Emerald district, noted for its hardness and size, 

 and for the good quality of its timber. Apparently local from Gin Gin to within 10-12 

 miles east of Alpha." (J. L. Boorman.) 



Some poor fruits collected by O'Shanesy from the Dawson and Mackenzie Eivers, 

 labelled E. leptopMeba by Mueller, are the present species. These were referred to 

 by me in the present work, X, 333, where I doubted the naming of the specimen. It 

 might be neglected altogether but for the reason that {op. cit., p. 333), it evidently 

 formed the basis of the name E. leptopMeba attached by O'Shanesy to a Blackbutt 

 whose timber and bark he describes. He says " dispersed through the scrubby 

 country westward from Goganjo." 



" E. Cambageana, the Blackbutt of the Comet Eiver and Coowarra districts, 

 was first noticed between Jericho and Beta, thence onwards at intervals to Gogango, 

 often growing with Acacia harpoplujlla (Brigalow)." (E. H. Cambage in Journ. Roy. 

 Soc. N.S.W., xhx, 445, 1915.) 



It is therefore widely diffused in the warmer parts of Queensland, but we do 

 not know its precise range yet. 



AFFINITY. 



It would appear to take the place, in Queensland, of the more southern 

 E. polyanthemos Schauer, or rather of its narrow-leaved forms. The anthers, however, 

 sharply separate them. The leaves also are different both in shape and venation. 

 The rough bark is more scaly than that of E. pohjaniliemos, and the line of demarcation 

 more clearly defined. 



It is named in honour of Mr. Eichard Hind Cambage, who has done valuable 

 work in connection with this genus. I shall refer to this work more in detail in the 

 epilogue. E. Camhagei Deane and Maiden is conspecific mth E. elceophcra F.v.M. 



