DESCRIPTION. 



LXXI1X. E. salmoiiophloia, F.v.M. 



In Fragmenta, xi, 11 (1878). 

 It was afterwards figured and described in the Eucalyptographia. 



Notes supplementary to the description, 



A very uniform species, varying more in the operculum if at all, but not 

 much in that. It is the largest tree on the Eastern Gold-fields of Western Australia. 



The mature foliage is glossy on both sides and more or less yellowish-green 

 as seen in the bush ; the j uvenile foliage is quite dull on both sides, petiolate, f rom 

 nearly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the intramarginal vein distinctly removed from the 

 edge, the fine lateral veins parallel and feather-veined. 



It has a broad white anther opening wide at the sides ; filament at the base, 

 and gland at the top. 



It has a salmon-coloured smooth bark, which dries dull red and hard ; 

 sometimes there is a little rough-flaky bark at the butt. 



The timber is of a reddish-brown colour-, red with crimson in it. It is one of 

 the most valuable Western Australian timbers, good for firewood, durable for posts, 

 commonly used for railway-sleepers on the Eastern Gold-fields. 



Speaking of the Goomalling (an agricultural) district, Mr. Percy Murphy 

 informs me, " Difficult to get without gum-veins. It sometimes has hollow spaces 

 from which you may obtain a couple of buckets of water." In this respect it 

 resembles some New South Wales trees. It is, however, sound as a rule, and 

 Goomalling is too far west for the species to attain its best development. 



Mr. Vanzoolikum, of Katanning, gave me the native name in the South- 

 eastern districts as " Wuruk." 



RANGE. 



A Western Australian species. The type comes from " woods towards the 

 mouth [head is doubtless meant] of the Swan River, F.M , from hence to the vicinity 

 of the Victoria Spring (C. Giles)." In the Eucalyptographia, Mueller modifies the 

 statement in the following words — "From the upper eastern part of Swan River and 

 its affluents (F.v.M.) extending to Victoria Spring through the arid interior region, 

 but not continuously" (C. Giles). 



It is very widely diffused and is usually a sign of a region of low rainfall. 

 It flourishes in the desert. 



