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DESCRIPTION. 



XXV. E. microcorys, F.v.M. 



This species was originally described in Latin in Mueller's Fragmenia, ii, 50 (1860). 

 It is well described in Bentham's Flora Australiensis, i i, 212. It was subsequently- 

 described and figured in Mueller's " Eucalyptographia." 



Notes supplementary to the description. 



Vernacular names. — The name of Tallow-wood is universal in New South Wales because of the 

 greasy texture of the wood, which leads to its selection for ball-room flooring, for example. In Queensland, 

 however, it also goes by the names of Turpentine and Peppermint, owing to the oil in its leaves ; these 

 names are applied to other trees in New South Wales. 



Size. — This is a very large tree, one of the bulkiest of Australian trees. Tree? 10 feet in diameter 

 at 3 feet from the ground are not rare in the Manning River district, N.S.W. 



Seedlings. — Cotyledon leaves purplish underneath. 



Juvenile foliage. — Pale underneath and thin. As growth proceed<, the paleness disappears. 

 With this exception this species is one iu which the juvenile foliage does not very markedly dififer from 

 that of the mature foliage. 



Timber. — One of the best known of New South Wales timbers ; considered to be the most valuable 

 after Ironbark. Being so valuable from an economic point of view, it will be dealt with at length in an 

 early Part of ray " Forest Flora of New South Wales." 



Bark. — Sub-fibrous, of loose and even woolly texture. In colour it is of a sort of brick or rusty 

 rod, and is persistent even to the smallest branches. It is often of a corrugated appearance, particularly 

 in old trees. 



RANGE. 



It is confined to eastern New South Wales and Queensland, being found more or 

 less plentifully over an extensive area, usually on good soil. 



The most southerly locality known to mo is Cooranbong, between Newcastle and 

 Gosford, New South Wales; its northern limit in Queensland is unknown to mc. It 

 goes at least as far as Cleveland Bay in lat. 19^ S. 



Westerly in New South Wales I have it from the Styx River, Armidale district 

 (A. W. Howitt), and Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range (W. Dani); its range is worthy 

 of further investigation. 



