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The following specimens from A. W. Howitt all have fruits in threes :— Geelong; 

 Beaumaris; Glen Iris; Bruthen Creek; Port Albert, small trees on heaths, half- 

 barked, smooth limbs ; Alberton ; Black Range, near Glenelg River. " In flats, bark 

 rugged up to small limbs." No. 1 multiflowered. 



There is a " Blackbutt " from Hotspur. Height up to 110 feet (measured tree). 

 Wild Horse Creeks, fruits in 5's, pointed buds (A. W. Howitt). 



Multiflowered, Turnback, Gippsland (A. W. Howitt) ; Hobson's Creek, Gipps- 

 Jand (Mueller) ; Swan Reach, South Gippsland (J.H.M.) ; Wilson's Promonotory (J. 

 Blackburne) ; Healesville (C. Walter) ; foot of Mount Macedon (E. Cheel) ; " White 

 Gum," brittle wood, Hesket, 2,000 feet, near Mount Macedon (J. M. Griffiths); 

 Heathcote and Macedon (W. S. Brownscombe, 19a); Gisborne (J. Staer) ; Arthur's 

 Creek (J. Staer) ; Maryborough (J. Blackburne). " Big old tree with persistent rough 

 wrinkled bark on stem and main branches, even extending to the smaller ones; tree 

 yielding manna." Near Castlemaine (J. Blackburne). 



Dunkeld, near Mount Abrupt, Grampians, another specimen from same locality 

 with Mueller's note, " rough bark, not fibrous bark." Multiflowered (Bolton). 



" Blue Gum," Pyrenees (Collector?). Bright (J.H.M.). 



New South Wales. 



It is a denizen of well-watered, cold localities, ascending, to over 4,000 feet. 

 Passing through from Victoria it is found on the southern and northern Tablelands 

 of the State from end to end, passing into Queensland by means of New England. 



Southern Districts.— ' White Gum," quite glabrous. Flowers in 3's, ripe fruits 

 fairly well exserted, 3-celled. Immature fruits, truncate, Brown's Camp, near 

 Delegate (W. Baeurlen) ; near Delegate Hill (W. Forsyth); " persistent bark at butt; 

 above that very white." Bombala (A. W. Howitt); " Ribbony Gum," largest tree 

 in Bombala district. Cathcart (J.H.M. ). 



Copy of note made at the time :— N.B.— Complete material available, " Fruits 

 tending to sub-cylindrical like these show transition to Gunnii and show how difficult 

 it is to discriminate on fruits alone." Nimitybelle (J.H.M.) -Cooma, H. Deane's 228 

 (H. Deane and others) ; Sherwin Creek, McLachlan River, Bibbenluke to Dalgety. 

 Along the creeks and on the hills with E. coriacea (A. W. Howitt) ; Towamba River, 

 Eden (A. W. Howitt); Wyndham (J. L. Boorman) ; Bemboka (A. W. Howitt); 

 Yourie, 30 miles west of Bermagui (W. Dunn) ; Moruya (J. L. Boorman) ; Wog Wog, 

 Currockbilly (J. L. Boorman); Araluen Mountain (J.H.M.); Jillamatong Mountain, 

 near Braidwood. The only species on the mountain (J. L. Boorman); Sugar Loaf 

 Mountain, Braidwood (W. Baeuerlen); " Grey Gum," Braidwood, with suckers broader 

 than usual ; " Ribbony Gum," Braidwood (J. S. Allan) ; Sassafras, Nowra Road (J. 

 L. Boorman); Turpentine^ near Nowra (J. L. Boorman); "Manna Gum," Dalgety 



