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" Narrow-leal Red Ironbark " (in contradistinction to the Broad-leaved or 

 Silver Ivonhark, E.mekmo2)hloia). Aboriginal name, " Boobyinba." "One of our 

 best timbers, useful for many purposes, durable and strong. Habitat, open forests. 

 Plentiful in places wlicrc soil is sandy. Plowers January-May." (Forest Ranger 

 McGee, Narrabri). 



The largest forest of creLra in New South Wales (back country) is between 

 Narrabri and Coonabarabran. There are fully two million acres of it. The forest 

 commences at Qunnedah and goes to 25 miles from Coonamble. 



North. — Paterson River (J. L. Boorman) ; " Black Ironbark," Clarence Town 

 (A. Rudder) ; Booral (A. P^udder), who says of it, " it is a much smaller tree than 

 either paniculaia or siderophloia, and, as far as I have seen, is of spreading and 

 somewhat drooping habit. Leaves very narrow; fruit and flowers very small. 

 Timber in colour, when fresh, either red or dark brown. Suitable for railway 

 sleepers and girders, &c., and for use in bridges and culverts generally, where long 

 lengths are not required. It does not, as a rule, approach so near the coast as the 

 above two species. I have seen a little of it near Clarence Town, and it is fairly 

 plentiful on the tributaries of the Upper Hunter." Cooloongoolook (A. Rudder). 



Branxton (J. L. Boorman) ; Wybong Creek (A. Rudder) ; Denman (W. 

 Heron) ; Merriwa, with broadish leaves like the Rockhampton specimens (J.H.M. 

 and J. L. Boorman) ; Gungal (J. L. Boorman) ; Murrurundi (J.H.M. and J. L. 

 Boorman); Page River and Gundy (J.H.M.). Tips of valves exserted ; Scone 

 (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). 



Bentham's No. 3 (in part). — "Specimens from New England, C. Stuart, 

 described as having the bark white, separating in thin strips, the colour of the 

 specimens not at all glaucous, and the inflorescence rather less compound, but the 

 shape of the leaves, their venation, and the flowers and fruits precisely those of E. 

 crebi'a." .... (B.Pl. iii, 222.) I have examined this specimen, which is in 

 bud and flower, and concur in Bentham's view that it is B. crehra, P.v.M. 



At the same time C. Stuart's bark notes are those of JEl. hcemastoma, var. 

 micrcmtha (his specimens have got mixed in some way), and herbarium specimens 

 of the variety and of crehra are often much alike, unless a complete suite be 

 available. 



" Red Ironbark," Glen Inncs (Forest Guard N. Stewart) ; western slopes of 

 Dividing Range, County Clive, Tenterfield (A. S. O. Reid) ; hills about "VYarialda 

 (J.H.M., J. L. Boorman, Forest Guard Edward Julius) ; Acacia Creek, Macpherson 

 Range (W. Dunn). 



AFFINITIES. 



This is one of the Irnnbarks with porantherous anthers (the others are 

 E. melanophloia and E. siderophloia), which sharply separate them from lliose 

 with truncate anthers, which include E. pctniculata and E. sideroxylon. 



