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Gelantipy, and elsewhere, up to 4,000 feet above sea level in favourable localities. It is very commonly 

 termed " Blue Gum," and as such has, to my knowledge, been cut by saw-millers. At Walhalla it is used in 

 preference to £. Sieberiana or £. capitellata, as being the best procurable in the district for props iu the 

 mines, and, so far as my experience goes, may be placed after E. (tlohiJua as a useful timber tree for work 

 that is not placed in or on the ground — as framing or planking. 



The typical form of E. goniooalyx seems not to be able to cross from the cool southern slopes to the 



warmer and drier northern sides On the south side of Fainting Range E. goniooalyx ascends 



to the summit at about 2,000 feet." . . . (A. W. Howitt in Trans. Roy. Soc. Vict, ii, 103, 1890.) 



Followinof are some localities represented in the National Herbarium, 

 Sydney : — 



Grey Box, Lilydale (A. W. Howitt) ; Dandenong Mountain (J.H.M.) 

 large Gum-tree with smooth slate-coloured bark. Fern Tree Gully (R. H. Cambage) 

 smooth-bark variety, Warrandyte (C. Walter); Healesville district (C. Walter) 

 "Dividing Ranges" (C. Walter). 



Upper Barwon, also near Bunyip River (Herb. Melb. No collectors stated) ; 

 Blacks' Spur (H. Deane). 



Grey Gum, Darlimurla, South Gippsland (H. Deane) ; Bairnsdale (A. W. 

 Howitt). 



Large Gum-tree with a little rough bark, in moist flats, Mississippi Creek, 

 near Metung (J.H.M.) . 



Walhalla (A. W. Howitt; Fainting Range (A. W. Howitt); Gooram, 

 North-east Victoria (H. B. Williamson) : Sirathbogie (A. W. R. Vroland). 



South Australia. 



Glen Ewin, Houghton (Mr. McBwin). 



The species should be further sought for in South Australia in the ranges 

 around Adelaide ; localities to connect the Victorian ones should also be ascertained. 



New South Wales. 



It will be seen that the species is particularly abundant in south-eastern 

 New South Wales, connecting with the Victorian localities for a considerable 

 distance. Westerly it does not appear to leave the Blue Mountains, while it 

 becomes rare in the north, v/here its range is unascertained. 



South. — Grey Gum, Twofold Bay. A specimen in bud with longer pedicels 

 (L. Morton) ; Eden (A. W. Howitt) ; Bell-bird Creek, Eden-Pambula (A. W. 

 Howitt) ; " Yellow Gum," the bark often presenting a more or less yellow cast. 

 Candelo district (A. Rudder). It has the extraordinary name of " Monkey Gum" 

 in the Bermagui district. Mr. Oliver Smith, Forest Guard, who gives me this 

 information, says that the " Native Bears," or "Koalas" [Phnscolarctos cinerem) 

 are especially fond of the foliage of this tree, as many as fifty being seen on one 



