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It is frequently found on poor sandy or sandstone country, but sometimes on 



better soil. Its relations to soils and soil-moisture have only been imperfectly worked 



out. 



New South Waxes. 



Wrong District (J. L. Boorman, J.H.M.); Yarramalong (W. A. W. de 

 Beuzeville); Sandgate, Newcastle (A. Murphy); Sandgate to Waratah (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 730); Paterson River (J. L. Boorman); Dungog-Stroud Road (A. 

 Rudder); " Red Gum," Dungog (W. F. Blakely); ' Taree (E. H. F. Swain); Port 

 Macquarie (F. R. Brown); Beechwood, RoUand's Plains, Hastings River (J. L. Boor- 

 man); Bellinger River (F. R. Mecham); Woolgoolga (E. H. F. Swain); Woodburn, 

 Richmond River (W. Baeuerlen); Murwillumbah, Tweed River (E. H. F. Swain); 

 Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, New South Wales-Queensland border (W. Dunn). 



Queensland. 



Northern slopes of the Macpherson Range (R. N. Jolly); Beenleigh (Dr. J. 

 Shirley); Brisbane (J. L. Boonnan); One Tree Hill, Brisbane (R. H. Cambage); 

 Pioneer River, Moreton Bay District (Dr. Griffiths); Blackdown Tableland, also 

 Goomboorian Range, near Gympie (R. N. Jolly); "Grey gum" from both flats and 

 ridges, Landsborough, North Coast Railway (P. MacMahon). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. punctata DC. 



The timber and bark of the two species resemble each other a good deal ; they 

 may be, for all practical purposes, identical. They also agree in the flattened peduncles 

 and the stamens (points of resemblance, however, not peculiar to these two species). 



They differ in the size of the flower-buds and fruits, which in E. propinqua are 

 quite small; E. propinqua has narrow lanceloate leaves, and also has more parallel 

 and less prominent lateral veins than E. punctata. The calyx-tube and also the 

 operculum of E. propinqua are more distinctly hemispherical and its flowers more 

 pedicellate. 



The fruit of E. punctata, though variable in size, is always larger and more 

 cylindrical than that of E. propinqua. 



2. With E. saligna Km. 



Mueller, in his later years, used to consider the species subsequently described 

 aa E. propinqua as a form of E. saligna, and ;i number of botanists, including myself, 

 followed him in this respect, for a time. 



