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South Australia. 

 The original species was described from this State, though, as was often the 

 case in the early days, no special locality was given for the type. It is a widely 

 diffused and well known tree in South Australia. Following are some localities of 

 a few specimens : — 



Devil's Country, Lofty Range (E. rugulosa), Miquel (see above) ; Adelaide 

 and Mount Lofty Ranges generally ; a Gum tree with smooth white bark, yellowish 

 wood. Kapunda (R. H. Cambage) ; Kuitpo Forest Reserve, near Willunga 

 (W. Gill); Cape Jervis (J.H.M.) ; South-east South Australia (W. Gill) ; "White 

 Desert Gum," Tint inarra (R. H. Cambage). 



Variety pauperita, J. 13. Brown, Mt. Bryan Ranges, near Hallett (W. Gill ; 

 Bundaleer (W. Gill and J.H.M.). See also J. E. Brown, loc. tit. 



Variety macrocarpa, J. E. Brown. — Port Lincoln to Wangary [W. Gill and 

 J.H.M.) . See also J. E. Brown, Ice. cit. 



Victoria. 



The second variety of E. leucoxylon is suitably termed "White Ironbark," and it probably 

 represents the variety of this tree from which Baron von Mueller named the species "leucoxylon." Outwardly 

 it has the appearance of a " White Gum," and the wood is light coloured. It is locally called "Grey 

 Gum." " Spotted Box," " Blue Gum." The wood is of inferior quality, used in some places as posts, yet I 

 saw it cut for railway sleepers near Heathcote a few years back. 



This tree is not found, as far as I have observed, to the east of Melbourne in the south, or of 

 Rushworth in the north. It is plentiful in the State Forests and Timber Reserves of Bendigo, Maryborough, 

 Wedderburn and Heathcote, &c. It is of but little value, and need not be preserved where other and 

 better Eucalypts can replace it. (A. W. Howitt, in an unpublished report, 1895.) 



The small-fruited form or variety pauperita is very common in Victoria. 



Following are some more or less specific localities for E. leucoxylon in 

 Victoria : — 



Smooth-barked tree. Darriwill, near Geclong (correspondent of Dr. Woolls); 

 Torquay, near Geelong (J. M. Griffiths) ; Heathcote (\. W. Howitt); "Smooth- 

 barked Ironbark." Growing side by side with Ironbark (E. sideroxylon). Mary- 

 borough (J. Blackburne) ; Smooth baik, Carisbrook, Loddon River (J. Blackburne); 

 " Blue Gum," Bendigo (W. W. Froggatt) ; Eaglehawk (A. W. Howitt) ; " White 

 Ironbark," Grampians (C.Walter); "A clear or white-barked tree, known round 

 Horsham and the Upper Glenelg as White Gum. I have never heard it called 

 Ironbark or Blue Gum " (H. B. Williamson) ; Gerang Gerung (A. W. Howitt) ; 

 Stawell, red-flowering (A. W. Howitt) his leucoxylon /3 ; Wimmera (F. Reader) ; 

 Mallee district (C. Walter). 



Bremin, Rutherglen (H. B. Williamson). This specimen simulates E. 

 hemiphloia (see fig. 9, pi. 56) ; Heathcote, near Bendigo (W. S. Brownscombe) 

 simulating hemiphloia var. albens. 



The glaucousness of the specimens, which canuot be brought out in the 

 drawing, (see fig. 7, pi. 56), accentuate the similarity. In sending other specimens 

 from the same locality (fig, 4, pi. 56), Mr. Brownscombe says that the tree is known 

 locally as "White Gum " or " Spotted Box." 



