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It is fairly common still at Homebush and Flemington, Bankstown to 

 Cabramatta (the "Railway Station) ; Cabramatta (the Cabramatta of the " Flora 

 Australiensis," where Woolls collected, and now called Pvossmore, since the name has 

 been given to a railway station several miles away); Smithtleld. 



Specimens of twigs and timber were sent by the late Sir William. Macarthur 

 to the Paris Exhibition of 1855 and the London Exhibition of 1862, under the 

 following numbers : — 



(«) 137 (Paris), 4 (London). 



(b) 137b (Paris), 5 (London). 



They both belong to this species, although some local variation caused Sir 

 William to think they were different. 



With reference to the aboriginal name given by Macarthur, it is interesting 

 to note that George Caley, who collected for Sir Joseph Banks in the County of 

 Cumberland, 1800-1810, called it " Derrobarry," evidently the same word, and I 

 believe that Maearthur's names were obtained quite independently. 



Sir William Macarthur furnished the following information : — 



(a) " Terri-barri " (aboriginal name) ; " Broad-leaved rough Ironbark " or 



"Rough-leaved Rough-barked Ironbark" (local names, Counties of Cumber- 

 land and Camden), Diameter in inches, 24-48; height in feet, 80-120. 

 Prom Appin ; common in Cumberland. One of the strongest and most 

 durable of timbers. " This tree has been proposed for their emblem by 

 the colonists of New South Wales. 



(b) " Ironbark." Diameter in inches, 24-48 ; height in feet, 80-120. Prom 

 Appin ; distinguishable by its very rough bark in broad deep longitudinal 

 furrows, its very broad leaves, its smooth bark on the young branches, and 

 the different grain of its wood. 



Turning to the west it is more or less abundant to the foot of the Blue 

 Mountains — e.g., Rooty Hill, St. Mary's, Penrith, Emu Plains, Richmond. 



It extends to the Capertee Valley (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman) and Murrumbo, 

 Rylstone District (R. T. Baker), with somewhat blunter opercula, and showing 

 transit to the variety glauca found much more to the west. 



In the north it is much more abundant, and practically all the supply of this 

 timber comes thence. 



Following are some records of northern specimens in the Sydney Herbarium : — 

 "Red Ironbark." Height 50 feet, diameter 1 foot. Clarence Town (A. 

 Rudder) ; Paterson, the commonest Ironbark of the district (J. L. Boorman) ; Jones' 

 Flat, 12 miles south of Stroud (J.H.M.) ; Bullahdelah (A. Rudder). "Red Iron- 

 bark," Lawrence, Clarence River (J. V. de Coque) ; Myrtle Creek, County of 

 Richmond (W. P. Pope). 

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