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Common, 1,800 feet (E. Julius); ''Ribbon Gum," Hanging Rock, via Nundle (E. 

 Julius) ; "Walelia, fruit in 3's (J. L. Boorman) ; Tia, near Walcha, up to 4's and 

 multiflowered. " Ribbony Gum " (J.H.M.). 



" White Gum." Fruits up to 4's and 5's. Between Myrtle Scrub and 

 Yarrowitch. The trees are straight, handsome-looking, up to 3 feet in diameter, and 

 as high as obliqua. The bark is more or less rough at the butt; above this the bark 

 is thin, falling off in ribbons. This viminalis forest (mixed with E. obliqua) is in rich 

 basaltic soil; in poorer ground towards Walcha the viminalis trees are much inferior. 

 On a ridge near Tia I observed a viminalis tree with larger fruits; 17 miles east of 

 Walcha, on a flat, may be observed many trees with perfectly smooth trunks, with 

 plum-coloured patches thereon. They have glaucous, plum-tinted, broadish (ovate- 

 lanceolate) suckers, but are, nevertheless, undoubtedly viminalis. For many miles 

 before Walcha is reached E. viminalis is exceedingly abundant, but most of the trees 

 are of the usual Ribbony Gum type, with all stages of twistiness of the ribbony bark, 

 and with much variation in the amount of rough bark at the butt (J.H.M.). 



Tree of 35 feet, smooth bark with loose shaggy butt, on creek, Ph. Royinn, 

 Co. Parry (E. H. F. Swain), in 3's with broad juvenile foliage. Uralla, up to 4's, red 

 flowered (H. Deane) ; Armidale (J. L. Boorman) ; Tingha to Guyra (J. L. Boorman 

 and J.H.M.) ; banks of Mclntyre River at Inverell (J.H.M.) ; Chandler and Styx Rivers 

 (A. W. Howitt); "White Gum," Guy Fawkes (W. MacDonald) ; Ben Lomond, up 

 to 6's (W. Dunn and J.H.M.) ; Glen limes, large fruits up to 4's, and very exserted 

 valves. Glen Innes, multiflowered (H. Deane and J. L. Boorman) ; Glen Elgin 

 (J. L. Boorman). 



' White Gum."— When once the Dorrigo Mountain is ascended, and one is 

 fairly on the reserve, it will be found that there is but one species of Eucalyptus, a 

 White Gum. It is to be found all over the reserve, on the open country, fringing the 

 plains fronting the Beilsdown, Murray, and Nymboida Creeks. It is E. viminalis. 

 The timber of E. viminalis is usually looked upon as the reverse of durable; in fact, 

 it bears a very bad name. But this Dorrigo white gum timber is anything but useless. 

 It is not first-class, but it is a good timber. I was shown a stockyard which had been 

 made of this timber thirty years ago (there is no other Eucalyptus timber anywhere 

 near) ; and posts and rails were but little the worse for wear. 1 carefully examined 

 into the timber and into the circumstances of its use, and the value of E. viminalis 

 timber has certainly increased in my estimation; up to C's (J.H.M., 1893). 



' White Gum " grows about 60 to 100 feet, about 6 feet girth. Timber is light- 

 pink to white in colour, splits well, but is very spongy and is no good in the weather. 

 ( brows in rather poorer soil than red gum, sometimes mixed with it in the same situation. 

 Fair burner, no good for mill on account of lack of durability (Robert Kaleski, Mountain 

 Top, Dorrigo). 



Young shoots long, opposite, narrow. Some of the buds with rather blunt 

 opercula. Fruits rather small, up to 6's and 7 ? s (The Bluff. Tenleiiield. Henry Deane, 

 No. 314). 



