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Howell (Bora Creek), 19 miles south of Inverell, on the tin-granite 

 (E. C. Andrews, per favour of 11. II. Cambage, April, l'J04, and April, 1905, in bud 

 and fruit) ; (J. H. Maiden and J. L. Boorman, August, 1905) ; Head of the Gwydir 

 (Dr. Leichhardt, circa 1842) ; it grows chiefly on low ranges along the foot-hills of 

 the Nandewar Range and along the Gwydir (Forest Guard Gordon Burrow) ; 

 "Mountain Ironbark," Upper Hunter (H. Deane, 1858); "Stunted Ironbark," 

 Murrumbo, Rylstone (R. T. Baker, December, 1893); at Howell it would appear 

 that the trees obtained a finer development ; Tingha (J. L. Boorman, June, 1904), 

 with fruits less pear-shaped than those of the type ; Emmaville (J. L. Boorman, 

 June, 1904). Very glaucous. 



The locality Peak Hill, as given in a note to the original desci'iption, was 

 founded on a misapprehension. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. sideroxylon, A. Cunn. 



U. Caleyi is sharply distinguished from this species by its broad juvenile 

 foliage, that of E. sideroxylon being very narrow. The fruits of E. sideroxylon are 

 more globular and warted ; the opercula are not constricted. In E. sideroxylon 

 (and I have chosen an equally fresh local specimen for the observation) the filaments 

 have a fine line or ridge extending the whole length. In E. Caleyi the line is less 

 marked, and extends only for the lower half of the filament. 



Let us turn to a reputed variety of E. sideroxylon, A. Cunn., viz., var. 

 pallens, Bentli. "Leaves not so coriaceous and whitish." New England, 

 C. Stuart (B.n. iii, 210). I have not seen the type specimens, but have travelled 

 over a good deal of C. Stuart's country (northern New England, Tenterfield to 

 Drake, &c.), and have no doubt, in my own mind, that E. Caleyi is the plant referred 

 to. At the same time I cannot state absolutely that it is a synonym without the type. 

 The tree is often as glaucous as it can be, and young lanceolate leaves at the ends of 

 branches are often less coriaceous than the maturer leaves down the branches. 



On my showing Mr. R. T. Baker specimens, and informing him that I 

 deemed this tree to be new, he very kindly sent me specimens collected by him at 

 Murrumbo Plains, Goulburn River, north of Rylstone, and informed me that the 

 tree was referred by him and Mr. Smith, in their " Research on the Eucalypts," to 

 E. sideroxylon, A. Cunn., var. ^joZ/ews. It will be observed that the authors state 

 that the " oil has little resemblance to that obtained from E. sideroxylon." 



2. With E. affinis, Deane and Maiden. 



E. Caleyi resembles this species in general characters, and even in fruits, but 

 the timbers sharply sepai-ate them, that of E. ajfinis being pale. 



