DESCRIPTION. 



LXXXIX. E. salmonophloia, F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta, xi, 11 (1878). 

 It was afterwards figured and described in. the Eucalij ptogruphia. 



Notes supplementary to the description. 



A very uniform species, varying more in the operculum if at all, but not 

 much in that. It is the largest tree on the Eastern Gold-fields of Western Australia. 



The mature foliage is glossy on both sides and more or less yellowish-green 

 as seen in the bush; the juvenile foliage is quite dull on both sides, petiolate, from 

 nearly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the 

 edge, the fiae lateral veins parallel and feather-veined. 



It has a broad white anther opening wide at the sides ; filament at the base, 

 and gland at the top. 



It has a salmon-coloured smooth bark, which dries dull red and hard ; 

 sometimes there is a little rough-flaky bark at the butt. 



The timber is of a reddish-brown colour, red with crimson in it. It is one of 

 the most valuable Western Australian timbers, good for firewood, durable for posts, 

 commonly used for railway-sleepers on the Eastern Gold-fields. 



Speaking of the Goomalling (an agricultural) district, Mr. Percy Murphy 

 informs me, " Difficult to get without gum-veins. It sometimes has hollow spaces 

 from which you may obtain a couple of buckets of water." In this respect it 

 resembles some New South Wales trees. It is, however, sound as a rule, and 

 Goomalling is too far west for the species to attain its best development. 



Mr. Vanzoolikum, of Katanning, gave me the native name in the South- 

 eastern districts as " Wuruk." 



RANGE. 



A Western Australian species. The ty[)0 comes from " woods towards the 

 mouth [head is doubtless meant] of the Swan River, F.M , from lience to the vicinity 

 of th(! Victoria Spring (C. Giles)." In the Eucalyptographia, Mueller modifies the 

 statement in the following words - " From the upper eastern part of Swan IMver and 

 its affluents (F.v.M.) extending to Victoria Spring through the arid interior region, 

 but not continuously " (C. Giles). 



It is very widely diffused and is usually a sign of a region of low rainfall. 

 It flourishes in the desert. 



