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Under 108, Sir William Macarthur notes in the Catalogue, "Flooded Gum of 

 Camden, diameter 36-48 inches, 80-120 feet high. A fine-looking tree, with elegant 

 pendant foliage ; the timber not valued, being weak and perishable in comparison with 

 many other of the common hardwoods." 



Under No. 28 it is described by the same writer as " A fine looking but com- 

 paratively worthless sort; the timber weak and not durable." The diameter is given 

 as the same, but the height is reduced to from 80-100 feet high. 



It will be observed that under 108 the tree is described as of " elegant pendant 

 foliage." Speaking generally, this is not a good description, although we have seen an 

 odd tree to which it would apply. In the great majority of cases the trees and foliage 

 are rather erect in habit. 



In the " Flora Australiensis " (iii, 240) the specimen just mentioned (bearing the 

 No. 108) is placed under E. viminalis and the record has always been accepted, e.g., 

 Woolls' " Plants indigenous in the neighbourhood of Sydney " (1st and 2nd editions). 



The Nepean Kiver trees aTe quite close to Camden Park and it would be impossible 

 for Sir William Macarthur not to be familiar with them, and no other local tree could 

 be mistaken for them. We are of opinion that E. viminalis Lab ill. should be removed 

 from the flora of the County of Cumberland. 



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In the Kew Herbarium is a specimen labelled "No. 16, Southern district New 

 South Wales, Macarthur and others. ' Flooded Gum.' From the London Exhibition 

 of 1862," which appears to be referable to E. Benthami. 



No. 16 in the official catalogue has the entry " Collected by Edward Hill, Esq., 

 aboriginal name at Brisbane Water ' Thurambai,' vernacular name ' Flooded Gum,' a 

 famous timber for ship-building and for house carpentry." This description can only 

 apply to E. saligna Sin., but the herbarium specimens are not of that species. It is 

 proper to refer to a numbered specimen in the principal herbarium of the world, but 

 one cannot explain the label. To begin with, Brisbane Water is in the north, and not 

 in the southern districts. The specimen may have been received as " Flooded Gum," 

 and the description of a second Flooded Gum (saligna) other than Benthami, tacked on 

 to it. The specimen was not exhibited in the previous or Paris Exhibition. 



The following specimens are either referable to the present species or are closely 

 related thereto : — 



(1) Seven miles east of Walcha, J. H. Maiden, November, 1897. 



A tree with box-scaly or rough apple-like (Angophora intermedia) bark, rough, 

 except the ultimate branchlets; suckers ovate-lanceolate, not glaucous, except the 

 very young tips of the branchlets of the suckers. 



(2) Guy Fawkes, Armidale district, J. L. Boorman, December, 1909. 



A tall tree with a fibrous bark, and claret coloured tips to branches. Reputed 

 ocally to be a useful timber for building and fencing purposes. 



