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" Narrow-leaf Red Ironbark " (iu contradistinction to tbe Broad-leaved or 

 Silver Ironbark, E.melanopliloia). Aboriginal name, " Boobyiuba." "One of our 

 best timbers, useful for many purposes, durable and strong. Habitat, open forests. 

 Plentiful in places where soil is sandy. Flowers January-May." (Forest Ranger 

 McGee, Narrabri). 



Tbe largest forest of crehra in New South Wales (back countrv) is between 

 Narrabri and Coonabarabran. Tbere are fully two million acres of it. Tbe forest 

 commences at Gunnedak and goes to 25 miles from Coonamble. 



North. — Paterson River (J. L. Boorman) ; " Black Ironbark," Clarence Town 

 (A. Rudder) ; Booral (A. Rudder), wbo says of it, " it is a much smaller tree than 

 eitlier paniculala or slderopliloia, and, as far as I have seen, is of spreading and 

 somewhat drooping habit. Leaves very narrow; fruit and flowers very small. 

 Timber in colour, when fresh, either red or dark brown. Suitable for railway 

 sleepers and girders, &c, and for use in bridges and culverts generally, where long 

 lengths are not required. It does not, as a rule, approach so near the coast as the 

 above two species. I have seen a little of it near Clarence Town, and it is fairly 

 plentiful on the tributaries of the Upper Hunter." Cooloongoolook (A. Rudder). 



Branxton (J. L. Boorman) ; Wybong Creek (A. Rudder) ; Denman (W. 

 Heron) ; Merriwa, with broadish leaves like the PLOckhampton specimens (J.H.M. 

 and J. L. Boorman) ; Gungal (J. L. Boorman) ; Murrurundi (J.H.M. and J. L. 

 Boorman); Page River and Gundy (J.H.M.). Tips of valves exserted; Scone 

 (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). 



Bentham's No. 3 (in part). — "Specimens from New England, C. Stuart, 

 described as having the bark white, separating in thin strip's, the colour of the 

 specimens not at all glaucous, and the inflorescence rather less compound, but the 

 shape of the leaves, their venation, and the flowers and fruits precisely those of E. 

 crehra.'" .... (B.F1. iii, 222.) I have examined this specimen, which is in 

 bud and flower, and concur in Bentham's view that it is E. crehra, P.v.M. 



At the same time C. Stuart's bark notes are those of E. hcemasloma, var. 

 micrantha (his specimens have got mixed in some way), and herbarium specimens 

 of the variety and of crehra arc often much alike, unless a complete suite be 

 available. 



" Red Ironbark," Glen Innes (Forest Guard N. Stewart) ; western slopes of 

 Dividing Range, County Clivc, Tenterfield (A. S. O. Reid) ; hills about TVarialda 

 (J.H.M., J. L. Boorman, Forest Guard Edward Julius) ; Acacia Creek, Macpherson 

 Range (W. Dunn). 



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Tins is one of the Ironbarks with porantherous anthers (the others are 

 E. melanophloia and E. sicleropldoia), which sharply separate them from those 

 with truncate anthers, which include E. paniculala and E. sideroxylon. 



