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RANGE. 



Dealt with at Pari XII, p. 72. The following localities are additional: — ■ 



Neto South Wo. "Silver-leaved Ironbark." Arrara, Paroo district (J. L. 



Boorman); " Fairly large trees, with hark cork-like or fibrous of.a blackish cast. Has 

 silvery leaves, hence one of its names. Timber often faulty. Grows in masses at 

 the foot-hills of the western slopes/' Xarromine (J. L. Boorman); "Three feet in 

 diameter and over ninety feet high." -10 and 50 miles north-west of Collarendebri 

 (Sid. W. Jackson); '" Silver-leaved Ironbark,"' Wee Waa (.1. W. Taylor); "Silver-leaf 

 Ironbark," 2nd bore, Yarrie Lake Road, Pilliga Scrub, about 14 miles AV.S.W. of 

 Narrabri (Dr. H. I. Jensen. No. l(i): About 10 miles north from Baradine, Pilliga 

 Road (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 73); Fine belt 17-14 miles from Narrabri, Gunnedah 

 Road. Occurs on sand-ironstone, basalt. &c, red loams, always on good wheat soils. 

 Accompanies Pine [CtAlUris) and Box [E. albens). (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 158); 

 4 feet girth. 40 feet high. Manilla, Parish Namoi, County Darling (Forest Guard 

 M. H. Simon. No. 121): Glauooua foliage, short, dark bole. 3-4 feet in girth, height 

 45 feet. Hollow, eaten by white ants, containing 5-14 posts. Gregarious, but scattered 

 in grassy country. Warialda, and between the Gwydir and Mclntyre Rivers 

 generally (District Forester E. H. F. Swain, No. 7); also, Warialda (W. A. W. 

 de Beuzeville), with lanceolate leaves (see Part XII, p. 71). This particular 

 specimen is referred to at length by me in Journ, Roy. Sue X.S.W., xlvii, 223 (1913), 

 and also liii. 71 (1919). 



Queensland. — Inglewood, South-Western Line, near New South Wales border 

 (J.. L. Boorman); Toowoomba, Western Line, 101 miles from Brisbane (H. A. 

 Longman): Roma. 318 miles, and Mitchell, 372 miles (Rev. J. H. Simmonds) ; 

 Charleville, 183 miles (E. B. Atkins): Broad or Silver-leaved Ironbark, Esk 

 (L. Lewis): " Silver-leaved Ironbark," Kilcoy (J. C. McMinn) ; Gayndah (C. T. White); 

 Eidsvold (Dr. T. L. Bancroft); ' The local Ironbark. Does not attain a large size, 

 nor is it too sound. It is, however, recognised as a useful timber in constructive work 

 when it is sound." Emerald, Central Railway Line, 106 miles from Rockhampton 

 (J. L. Boorman); Sapphire or Anakie, 193 miles west of Rockhampton, just south of 

 Clennonl (A. Morrison); Bogantungan, at 1,100 feet, 220 miles (R. H. Cambage, 

 No. 3974); ••Ironbark." GadwaU, Alpha, 273 miles ((J. T. Wood); Broad-leaved 

 [ronbark, Reid River, via Townsville (Nicholas Daley); ' Broad-leaved Ironbark," 

 The Plains, Prairie, North Queensland (J. R. Chisholm)"; (filbert River (0. T. White); 

 'Tree of 30 40 feet, Silver-leaved Box." Croydon, North Queensland (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 4<»ir,. also James 'Jill). 



Dr. H. I. Jensen (in a letter) says that — 



' E. n rf,ad on dry stony ridges, both volflSnic and slate, with good but. 



roughoul No ■ n<l. I call ii 'Silver-lea! Ironbark,' and state that it is 



calciphili cow on linji The -oil texture is heavy fair capillarity, stone subsoil en 



