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RANGE. 



This species occurs in New South Wales and Queensland, and is best known in 

 coastal districts from Port Macquarie in the former State to Moreton Bay in the latter, 

 usually in sour, undrained land. 



South-west of Port Macquarie, going inland, it is probably found in the County 

 of Gloucester in country of moderate elevation. A few miles north-west of that we find 

 it at an elevation of about 2,000 feet at Murrurundi. Then we have it between Acacia 

 Creek and Wilson's Downfall, south of the Macpherson Range, at an elevation of under 

 3,000 feet. 



New South Wales. 



Mr. J. L. Boorman and I found it a few miles from Grafton on the Glen Innes 

 road, and also on the Coramba road (July, 1903). The Grafton specimens, on the Glen 

 Innes road, form the type. 



Mr. District Forester Wilshire states that it is plentiful at Nymboida in the 

 Clarence River district. I have also seen it between the Clarence and Richmond 

 Rivers. 



" Cabbage Gum, Tooloom. " Occurring at various points between Drake and 

 Tabulam, Upper Richmond River. Good for posts, but bad for splitting or sawing. 

 Withstands bush fires, which run round it and only blacken it." (R. H. Cambage, No. 

 2,898.) I have collected it at Tooloom, which is in the Upper Clarence district, and so 

 has W. Dunn, who records it from " Gold belt of rocks, Tooloom." 



Going south from the Clarence, I received it from the Macleay River in 1893 from 

 Mr. Forester MacDonald under the name of Grey Gum. 



Port Macquarie to Telegraph Point, near the 7-mile post from the former place. 

 In poor ill-drained land. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) 



Tree 3 feet in diameter and 50 feet high, larger than I have previously seen it. 

 With pedicels thicker than in the type. The prevalent colour of the foliage is dull, and 

 it is somewhat rich in oil. We found numbers of very narrow-leaved seedlings. These 

 large trees showed no signs of the species petering out ; I have already noted some 

 northern records ; some more southern records become highly probable. 



In the Agric. Gazette of N.S.W. for January, 1896, p. 15, appeared the following 



statement by the late Augustus Rudder, an experienced forester : — 



" whilst that of the very narrow-leaved variety, the wood of which is of a rather lighter red in colour than 

 the other, is inlocked, harder, and is very lasting both in and out of the ground. This timber might be 

 highly recommended for use in bridges and culverts but for this danger, that the inferior kinds, of which 

 their woods are very similar in appearance, might be mistaken for it, or used wrongfully by unprincipled 

 contractors. Of this narrow-leaved kind I.have now before me part of a fence post which I took out of the 

 ground in May last, from where it had been for over fifty years, and is now quite fresh looking and tough , 

 and sound as ever." 



