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" Flooded Gum," Michelago (H. Deane) : " Flooded Gum," Eob Roy (H. Deane) ; 

 "Candle Bark,"' " Spotted Gum," " Flooded Gum," Queanbeyan (H. Deane); Gidley, 

 Bungendore (W. Forster Rutledge); : ' Monga," Braidwood (W. Baeuerlen). 



" Bark whitish smooth, with strips coming off trunk except about 8 feet from 

 ground where bark is fairly persistent, blackish, hard, rough, corrugated, about 80 feet 

 or more." Goulburn (Rev. J. W. Dwyer). 



"Manna Gum," Yass and Gundaroo (Rev. J. W. Dwyer); "White Gum." 

 Timber considered very inferior. Close to creeks, Yass Junction (W. M. Carne). 



Smooth bark on quartz porphyry. Flowering in the broad-leavecl stage. 

 Kangiara, 14 miles north of Bowning (R. H. Cambage Nos. 2203 and 2204). 

 Reminiscent of E. cinerea and E. prcecox. 



" No. 6, smooth yellow bark, rough near ground, Wingello ; Mrs. Louisa Calvert " 

 (about 1864). 



V\ Tiite Gum, Miss Atkinson (afterwards Mrs. Calvert), Berrima, Herb. Melb. • 



Both of these are multiflowered and nearest rubida, but one of the numerous 

 forms connecting with maculosa. 



" Cabbage Gum," Marulan (A. Murphy), with small fruits in threes and glaucous; 

 "Red Gum," Wingello (A. Murphy); 'Yellow Gum," Barber's Creek and Wingello. 

 including Paddy's River. The juvenile foliage varying from the normal to broadly 

 lanceolate (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman). Wombeyan Caves, Taralga Road (R. H. 

 Cambage and J.H.M.). 



Western Localities.— In gullies about Blackheath, Mount Victoria, and the highest 

 parts of the mountains. The leaves depart a little from the type. Leaves in young 

 trees often large, drooping and undulate. With twigs of absolutely mature foliage 

 and with the buds, as they are in threes, we doubt if anyone, in the absence of fruits 

 (and perhaps with difficulty then), can differentiate this species from viminalis. Of 

 course with juvenile leaves the matter is easy. 



Smooth-barked trunk and branches. Bark falling off in patches. Multi- 

 flowered. Fairy Dell, Mt. Victoria (J.H.M. ). Similar specimens from Blackheath, 

 and from both localities, flowers also in threes. Mt. Victoria, Lowther Road, Kanimbla 

 Valley (J.H.M.) ; Jenolan Caves (J.H.M. and W. F. Blakely). Very broad and large 

 young leaves. In threes, " Cabbage Gum," bark very smooth and patchy; colours 

 siaty-blue and white. A common form on the Dividing Range between the Caves 

 and Edith, also at Oberon. Always stunted on the tops of the ridges. 



At Wallerawang E. rubida is a viminalis-lookmg tree, rather drooping and with 

 lagged ribbony bark. On flats E. rubida has very red and ribbony bark here, and there 

 is no doubt that the original description of rubida must be modified as to the bark. 

 It is not smooth in all localities, but ribbony sometimes. In this locality it would not 

 be taken for a " White Gum." It is either a ribbony (or even densely ribbony) Gum, 

 with a rough saliynaAike or even scaly bark at butt, and a red patched trunk. In some 

 places in the district it is more a White Gum, but in drier localities. It sometimes has 

 manna on it 



