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RANGE. 



This tree is confined to Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, and New South "Wales. 

 In Tasmania it is common, except the extreme south and south-west (Rodway). I 

 have examined the following classical Tasmanian specimens : — 



0) Gunn's No. 684, 1,105 (Plenty Bridge) ; 1,107 (Glen Leith) ; 1,108 (Glen 

 Leith, also road foot of Grass-tree Hill) ; 1,109 (Marlborough) ; 1,111, 

 " Weeping Gum," Formosa. These are typical E. coriacea and are 

 E. piperita, var. pauciflora, DC, Prod, iii, 213, as pointed out by Hooker 

 in Fl. Tas. i, 136. 



(b) Col. Paterson ex. Herb. Lambert in Herb. Cant. 



Victoria. 

 As regards Victoria, Mueller gives the south, north-east, and east. Speaking 

 of Gippsland, Howitt says : — 



This Eucalypt is extremely constant in character, whether found in small isolated colonies in the 

 littoral tracts, as at Providence Ponds and Morwell, or forming forests over large areas in the Gippsland 

 Alps up to an elevation of 5,000 feet, as on the Wonnongatta Plains, at Omeo, Woolgulmerang and 

 Delegate. It appears to be essentially an alpine species, yet able to maintain itself, to some extent, in 

 localities but little elevated above sea-level. 



Following are some Victorian localities represented in the National 

 Herbarium, Sydney : — 



Mount Hotham, Victorian Alps (J.H.M., var. alpina). Buffalo Mountains 

 (Mr. West, coram., C. Walter), "Cabbage Gum," Caledonia Biver ; Upper Broken 

 River, Wando Dale, Hotspur (A. W. Howitt). Hills near Mansfield, Strathbogie 

 (H. B. Williamson) ; Camel's Hump, Mount Macedon (C. Walter). 



South Australia. 



J. E. Brown figures it in his Forest Flora under the name " The South- 

 eastern White Gum :" — 



In this State the species is as yet only known to exist in the south-eastern district, and there 

 merely in patches within a short distance of the sea-coast. The localities are — Dismal Swamp (Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison- Woods) and Benara Estate (Beale). 



The late Professor Tate records it from the volcanic area of the south-east 

 corner of the Province, or the Mount Gambier district. Both in Victoria and 

 South Australia it is recorded from the coast, a habitat I believe to be quite 

 unknown in NeAv South Wales. 



