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RANGE. 



It is a native of eastern New South Wales and Queensland; found in barren 

 coastal sandy localities usually at no great distance from the sea. It may ascend low 

 coastal ridges. It is recorded from the Illawarra on the south (the precise locality is 

 unknown), while its most northerly recorded locality is that of Fraser Island, 

 Queensland (near Maryborough). 



Following are specific localities : — 



New South Wales. 



" E. Kirtoniana F.v.M. (E. punctata DC.) Illawarra, Kirton" (copy of Mueller's 

 label). Melbourne-street, off Parramatta-road, Five Dock, Port Jackson. A fine 

 tree with furrowed, fibrous bark, and fruits § inch broad x § inch long, subcylindrical. 

 Valves not exserted, but nearly flush with top of capsule. The Rev. Dr. Woolls, who 

 pointed this tree out to me in 1890, considered it to be a form of E. resinifera, but I 

 was inclined to look upon it as a hybrid, E. resinifera x robusta. 



Penang Mountain, Gosford (A. Murphy). A gum rough to the limbs, scaly, 

 not perfectly clean limbs. Green Point, near Gosford (A. Murphy). 



" Bastard Blue Gum," grows amongst E. robusta. Scarce. East Gosford, in 

 swampy land (A. Murphy). 



Cooranbong (J. Martin). 



" Bastard Mahogany,"' Bungwall (A. Rudder). 



" A tall bending tree about 100 feet high, and 7 feet in girth, resembling a fine- 

 barked Bloodwood or a Grey Box. On low swampy ground with Tea-tree, Swamp 

 Mahogany, &c." ; near Woolgoolga (E. H. F. Swain) ; Brunswick River ( J.H.M. and 

 J. L. Boorman). 



"Ballina, on poor sandy soil associated with E. tereticornis Sm. and E. corymbosaSm. Grows to a fairly 

 large size, but always crooked, with a stem-diameter from 2 to 3 feet, but soon branching, the limbs long 

 and stout, gnarled and crooked; clear trunk about 10 feet in height." (W. Baeuerlen, quoted by R. T. 

 Baker.) Type of E. patentinervis. 



" In the field up to about 15 inches diameter it somewhat resembles Bloodwood (E. corymbosa), 

 especially in the bark, and has been cut for posts by men as Bloodwood. A closer observer, however, 

 will at once notice the difference in the leaf, which, together with the blossom, closely resembles 

 E. tereticornis. The tree is not frequent here and is generally not of a good form or size, but luck in location 

 is probably the reason of its bad form, for I have met with one lot of young trees tall and straight which 

 are growing under conditions more like what we would give them did we plant this species. For above 

 reasons it has not been sawn as far as I know, and as regards its durability I could not speak with 

 authority. (W. R. Petrie, District Forester, Fraser Island, via Maryborough, Queensland.) 



