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I have not seen any indubitable E. piperita from Queensland. There are 

 plants in the Melbourne Herbarium from the Macleay and Clarence Rivers 

 attributed to E. piperita, but they have no fruits, and the determination requires 

 confirmation. 



It is found on the Dividing Range and its spurs, being especially plentiful on 

 the Blue Mountains. Tt is found west at least as far as Mudgee. 



The typical form is found at least as far south as Moruya, but trees which 

 are considered to belong to this species occur, as already indicated, as far south as 

 Gippsland, Victoria. 



" No. 32, Eucalyptus piperita, Smith. — DC, lc. iii, p. 219, n. 29. St. Kilda 

 (Mull.)," Miq. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 137. St. Kilda is near Melbourne, and the locality 

 requires confirmation. 



It occurs on poor, rocky, sandstone land generally ; is usually an indication 

 of poor soil. It is very abundant in the Poi*t Jackson district and in the Counties 

 of Cumberland and Camden, New South Wales, generally. 



Southern Localities.— -The " Stringybark of Camden," No. 124, 50-100 feet, 

 W. Macarthur (1851), in Herb. Kew, is E. piperita. It was numbered 48 in the 

 Catalogue of New South Wales Exhibits of Southern Timbers at the London 

 Exhibition of 1862, where Sir William Macarthur gives the aboriginal name 

 (Cumberland and Camden) as " Bour-rougne," and its diameter as 24-54 inches. 

 He adds : " Not equal in stature or in hardness to the coast variety " (doubtless of 

 Stringybark). 



Common about Hill Top (J.H.M.) ; Belmore Falls, Moss Vale (W. Forsyth); 

 Barber's Creek, now Tallong (H. J. Rumsey and J.H.M.) . 



" Messmate." Wood of a yellowish colour ; when fresh much inclined to 

 ring. Urceolate, shape of fruit very pronounced, reminding one a good deal of 

 those of E. trachyphloia, from which the species differs in almost every other 

 respect See fig. 8, Plate 45, Wingello (J. L. Boorman). At Win gello we also have 

 it with fruits less pronouncedly urceolate and broader, more luxuriant foliage. 

 From the same place, with the fruits nearly pilular — i.e., scarcely urceolate at all. 



Conjola, near Milton (W. Heron) ; Currawang Creek, near Nelligen 

 (W. Baeuerlen) ; Messmate and Almond-leaved Stringybark of the Clyde River 

 (W. Baeuerlen). 



Mr. Forester J. S. Allan, long stationed at Moruya, speaks of it as occurring 

 " on the coast ranges ; not plentiful." This would refer to the southern part of the 

 State. I have never seen it, at least iu its typical form, south of the Clyde River. 



Western Localities. — This is a common tree by the roadside most of the way 

 going over the Blue Mountains, but does not continue much beyond the sandstone 

 area towards Wallerawang (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). 



