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places, it is found in country with good rainfall. It does not appear to have been 

 hitherto recorded for Queensland, which seenis strange. It is worth looking for in 

 the Stanthorpe district, and on the Macintyre River, for example. 



E. albens, Miquel (given as a synonym of E. hemiphloia by Mueller), which occurs near Mount 

 Remarkable, and in some other localities not far from the apex of Spencer's Gulf (these are South Australian 

 locabties — J.H.M.); also in the vicinity of the Avoca, Loddon, Campaspe, Broken, Ovens, and Snowy 

 Rivers (F.v.M.) ; along the whole valley of the Tamho (Howitt) (these are Victorian localities — J.H.M) ; 

 on the Upper Murrumbidgee in Silurian Shales and Sandstone, also more or less on all geologic formations 

 on the western slope of the Main Dividing Range of New South Wales down to the Tertiary plains (C. S. 

 Wilkinson), verging northward to New England (C. Stuart). — (Mueller in " Eucalyptographia," under 

 E. hemiphloia). 



South Australia. 

 Wirrahara Forest (spontaneous trees) (W. Gill and J.H.M.) ; Laura 

 (W. Gill). 



The fruits of my South Australian specimens are only of the size of those of 

 normal hemiphloia, hut they are glaucous like var. albens usually is. Both of the 

 above are in the Mount Remarkable district (a type locality). 



E. hemiphloia. — This species is extensively represented in Gippsland as a mountain form. It 

 occurs, for instance, in the valley of the Tambo River, north of Fainting Range, where it forms the 

 principal part of the forest, from about 750 feet at Numlamungie to 2,500 feet at Tongeo Gap. It is 



found at Turnback, at the Snowy River, at Deddick, and, more rarely, at Tubbutt (Extract given 



at p. 25). This form of E. hemiphloia appears to me to be that variety called E. albens. — (" The 

 Eucalypts of Gippsland" (A. W. Howitt), in Trans. Roy. Soe. Vict., Vol. ii (1890-1), p. 96.) 



"Den" or "Dern" of aborigines (Howitt). 

 Again,— 



This form is distinguished botanically as albens from the " mealy " aspect of its foliage. Grows 

 almost exclusively in the Tambo Valley betweeen the Fainting Range and Bindi, and in the valley of the 

 Snowy River about Turnback, Deddick, Gutta-Murra, &c. I have also observed it in places in the 

 North-eastern District. — (A. W. Howitt, in an unpublished official Report, 1895.) 



The Broken River (a type locality) joins the Goulburn River, and runs into 

 the Murray. 



The following Victorian specimens in the National Herbarium, Sydney, are 

 all very glaucous, coarse-leaved, and large-fruited. 



Tongio, Gippsland, and Gap Creek, Tongio ; also Rutherglen (A. W. Howitt) ; 

 Ovens Biver (H. B. Williamson) ; Euroa district (C. Walter) ; Heathcote 

 (W. S. Brownscombe). 



Trees about 60 feet high ; stem-diameter near ground, 3 feet. Grows 

 plentifully on road between Heathcote and Rushworth (J. Blackburne.) 



Mr. R. H. Cambage has drawn especial attention to the practical importance 

 of the western boundary line in New South Wales of this particular form. It seems 

 to present a very useful climatic boundary to agriculturists, pastoralists, and others, 

 in that it demarcates the western plains from the table-lands. 



