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RANGE. 



It is found in the drier parts of Australia, in all the mainland States except 

 Victoria. It usually occurs on the banks of rivers, or in depressions liable to 

 flooding. 



New South Wales. 

 This is the "Dwarf Box" of Forest Deparlment (N.S.W.) Exliibition 

 Catalogues of a few years back, where it is labelled " E. brach'jpoda ; timber not 

 much used or valued. Open plains, Lachlan, Darling, and towards the Barrier Range." 



The late K. H. Bennett, sent this species from Ivanhoe, via Hay, under the 

 native name " Tangoon," with the note that " this is our largest tree, often attaining 

 a height of 70 to 80 feet, with a diameter of 4 feet. It is the principal tree used by 

 the blacks for the extraction, of water from the roots." While indubitably 

 E. microtheca, it resembles the broad-leaved forms of E. bicolor. The flowers are 

 large, the leaves have a yellowish cast, and are f or 1 inch broad by 2f inches long, 

 having a different appearance from normal microtheca. 



We have it from the banks of the Bogan and on flats near the Darling River, 

 e.g., Bourke, &c The leaves vary in width, i.e. (with same length), varying on tlie 

 same tree from | inch to | inch broad. 



Angledool, north of Walgett, near the Queensland border (Newcomen) ; 

 Burren Junction (J. L. Boorman) ; Boggabilla (H. M. R. Rupp). 



While usually a small gnarled tree on the flats near the Namoi, it sometimes 

 occurs as a tree of considerable size. 



Bark rough and persistent, scaly, a pretty tree, with rather dense and drooping 

 foliage. Banks of Namoi at Narrabri. (H. Deane and others.) 



" Coolibah or Swamp Box," Narrabri. Leaves 7 inches long, and up to 1 inch 

 broad, and glaucous. (Forester McGee.) 



This is the Coolabah whose suckers are, under the pr-ovisions of the Crown 

 Lands Act of 1889, declared to be " scrub " in a Gazette notice of November, 1904 

 (Dis*:rict Surveyor Arch. Lockhard, Moree). 



Howell, near Inverell (E. C. Andrews). 



On the 1' vel river country a conspicuous tree is Eucalyptus microtheca, F.v.M. (Coolabah) wliicli is 

 easily identified by its rough grey bark all over the trunk, and its perfectly smooth white limbs. 



All these trees — E. mirrotheca, E. largiflorens (bicolor) and its variety, according to my observations, 

 grow only on what is known as the river or black soil country, and never away on the hills. They are of 

 crooked growth, and average about 30 to 40 feet high. Over the country which is now being described, 

 E. microtheca was only found extending as far as 12 miles south of Bourke, ceasing with the black soil, 

 though it goes northward through Queensland. — (R. H. Cambage, Proc. Linn. Soc. JV.S. W., 1900, p. 592.) 



