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The most northerly limit of the species, as far as I know, is the Carrai Tableland, a small portion 

 of the main tableland on its eastern side, cut off by the canyons of the Macleay River and Kunderang 

 Brook. 



The Reserve embracing the timber is shown on the parish nap of Kunderang, I think, and on the. 

 county map of Vernon, near its north-east corner. It adjoins, on the south, selections held by Mowle 

 and others. 



The Cairai is elevated between 2,000 and 3,000 feet above the bed of ihe river, and is difficult of 

 approach owing to the steepness of the ascent. A bridle track from about the junction of George's River 

 is probably the easiest route to the top. 



The patch of globulus is confined to about 100 acres near the edge of the falls to Kunderang 

 Brook, with a southerly aspect. It grows on or near to the west contact of the slate with tho granite, 

 the geological features of the Carrai. The granite occurs in the form of a dyke about 2 miles in width, 

 extending northerly across the Macleay, where it is well defined, and southerly towards Mt. Maiden, which 

 you know. 



The timber is of marketable value, but small in coir.parison with that of its southern limit (about 

 Hobart), which I have seen. The wood is yellowish, close-grained, and apparently healthy. 



As to its distribution, I have seen no other patches on the Tableland, but as much of the country 

 south of the Carrai is still unexplorfd botanically, other patches may yet be found. Mr. A. R. Crawford, 

 of Moona Plains, tlie discoverer of the Carrai patch, informed me that he has also seen the tree on the 

 eastern top of the VTinterbourne Spur, some 20 miles westerly from the Carrai at a similar elevation. 



Mr. A. 11. Crawford, of Moona Plains, Walclia, wrote to me in January, 

 1896: — 



A small-fruited form of Eucalyptus globulus lias been sent by Mr. Forester Siddons, of Armidale, 

 from Stony Creek, Parish of Cochrane, County of Vernon. The species was discovered there by me about 

 1889, and a specimen sent to Baron von Mueller. I know another locality where both tree and fruits are 

 much smaller than at .Stony Creek. It is but a small patch, 30 or 40 acres in extent ; it is about 10 miles in 

 a crow line from Stony Creek. As I write it is visible from the door, and about •'! miles distant, but the Falls 

 are between us— 3 miles down and 3 miles up the opposite side. I think that the arid stony nature of the 

 place will account for the smaller tree and fruit. At Stony Creek the ridge is moist and siiaded. I think 

 that the smaller patch was once of much greater extent, as I met with young plants more than \ mile 

 distant from the patch. 



Mr. Crawford wrote to me again as follows, 27th May, 1907 : — 

 Once I went from here on to part of the adjoining run, Winterbouroe, north-ejst about 7 miles in 

 a crow line, having been told of a rare species of Gum-tree, which from description I knew must be 

 E. globulus. I had previously discovered it on the Carrai Tableland where the reserve has been made. 'Jo 

 reach the nearest place, that on "Winterbourne, I went down the hill to the river and camped at the yard 

 a mile below. At daylight next morning, as the range was very bttep, I left my horse in the yard, and 

 after a climb of 2 miles gained the tableland, a small piece called "The Narrow Neck," and found the 

 E. globulus half a mile in. That was the variety with small fruits mentioned in the Agricultural Gazette. 

 I think it is not a variety, but merely the poverty of the place it grows in, — very hard and dry, — ground 

 formation is, I think, clay slate. As long as I can remember, the place has every five or six years suffered 

 severely from bush-fires, — every leaf on the trees apparently killed. Looking across the gulf as you go 

 down to Kunderang, you are a mile distant in a crow line. 



I wrote to him asking him to favour me with the latest report on the 

 occurrence of E. globulus in New Englnnd, and he promised to do so, hut I sorrow- 

 fully record that this careful student of our vegetation was thrown from his horse 

 and died from the effects of it early in 1912. 



Mr. District-forester T. H. Wilshire reported as follows in August, 1912, to 

 the Director of Eorests : — 



"Forest Reserve 22,699, Parish of Kunderang, County of Vernon. The only local information I 

 could obtain about this timber was^from Mr. William Mowles, the lessee of the Reserve, who stated that 

 the only thing he had used it for was a pick-handle, and it answered admirably, being used both for fencing 

 and grubbing, and was in use two years when he lost it. 



