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Bark fibrous, bark on upper ends of branches and on smaller branches almost 

 quite smooth and clean, old bark peeling off in thin flakes. Loaves long, thick, 

 heavy dense foliage. Mount Lookout near Bairnsdale (H. Hopkins). With 

 pedicellate flowers like Figure 10, Plate 89, not to be distinguished from Allan's 

 Wolumla (N.S.W.) specimens. 



Buchan Road, about 7 miles south of Buchan. Also in various places 

 throughout the lowlands of East Gippsland. Also along the road between Sale and 

 Port Albert, and near Boolarra (the latter apparently a less coarse variety). 



Bark, fibrous, rough, or somewhat scaly, or resembling a stringy bark, 

 persistent on stem and branches. A small scraggy tree, occasionally, and as at 

 Boolarra, attaining more shapely proportions, usually small not more than 20 to 

 30 feet high, on low sandy flats. Leaves of suckers and young saplings cordate or 

 broadly ovate, sessile, opposite changing in older trees to longer and narrower, 

 shortly stalked opposite or alternate, or frequently without stalks, sessile opposite 

 but elongated leaves on old trees, and all kinds quite commonly found on the same 

 aduit tree. Old leaves thick and leathery, young foliage often the same, but 

 generally thinner and softer and dull green, or most frequently covered with a thick 

 white or bluish " bloom," as is also the buds and small branchlets, giving the tree 

 a " silvery " appearance, hence the local name " Silver-leaved Stringybark." 

 Wood is dense, hard and sound. Appears from the debris in the bush as if it 

 would be durable. So far as I know it is not used for any purpose. Bark and 

 ■wood appears to resemble the Syncarpia (Turpentine) of N.S.W. (H. Hopkins). 



"Bed Stringybark," grows on swampy ground. Buchan (T. O'Hourke 

 through A. W. Howitt). 



The following additional specimens were collected by Mr. (afterwards Dr.) 

 A. W. Howitt. 



Oakleigh (near Black Flat) ; Monkey Creek, South Gippsland ; Moe (leaves 

 mostly cordate and up to eigbt flowrrs in axils) ; Croydon ; Boolara ; Dargo Boad, 

 North Gippsland ; Bunyip. 



The following is an excellent account of the tree as it occurs in the Melbourne 

 district. 



"Council's Hotel, about 12 miles from Melbourne on tbo Lilydale road to Ilcalesville. It is very 

 plentiful along the road about 15-18 miles from town. The tree is about SO fret high, bark stringy but 

 soft, somewhat between E. macrorrhyncha and obliqua. One observer calls it Mahogany because of the 

 colour of the timber, the latter being apparently of poor quality. Towards Anderson's Creek it is 

 sometimes called Apple Gum for want of a better name; near the Antimony Mines it is the ordinary 

 Stringybark." (Late J. G. Luehmann). 



Nunawading (D. Boyle, J.H.M.) ; Dan.lenong Mountain (F. Mueller, D. 

 Boyle, J.H.M.) ; Bingwood (C. Walter, B. IT. Cambage). 



