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Mueller speaks of it as one of the few Western Australian species whose leaves 

 yield oil in quantity. 



It is a species of Eucalyptus (E. robusta Sm. and E. rostrata Schlecht are others) 

 which throws out adventitious roots, usually from the injured bark or a wounded 

 limb. An excellent account (with three photographic illustrations) of these aerial or 

 adventitious roots from the pen of Mr. W. Catton Grasby, will be found in the Western 

 Mail, (Perth), of 5th June, 1914. 



The bark of this species is corky and thin flaky, that is to say, the rough bark, 

 which is not flattish and not thick, is so much fissured, both longitudinally and trans- 

 versely, that it breaks into small flakes with but slight violence. 



RANGE. 



This species is confined to Western Australia, and the type came from King 

 George's Sound. (This may mean " King George's Sound district," as I have not yet 

 seen a specimen collected at the Sound itself.) 



Bentham gives localities as " Sandy woods, Swan River, Preiss No. 252, Drum- 

 mond No. 58 ; Vasse River, " Flooded Gum," Oldfield ; Gardner River and grassy flats 

 near Salt River, " Swamp Gum," Maxwell. 



Mueller (" Forest Resources of W.A.," p. 10) defines the range as : — " On river 

 banks from Swan River to Cape Leeuwin, and eastward at least as far as the Gardiner 

 (Gardner) River. ' There are two Gardner Rivers, one between the Warren River, and 

 Brooke's Inlet. The more eastern one is that indicated by Bentham as near the Salt 

 River. It and the Salt River and the Phillips River (where Mr. Cecil Andrews collected 

 it, and apparently the most south-eastern locality so far) are in the same general district, 

 north-west of Esperance. 



It is also found as far north as Northampton, in the Geraldton district, so that 

 we have a fairly extensive range in the south and west coastal districts. It is essentially 

 a lover of damp, undrained localities, and banks of streams, though it has become 

 acclimatised in a number of situations to the sides of hills and comparatively dry 

 situations. 



Starting from the south (Cape Leeuwin) and working north, we have specimens 

 from the following localities : — 



k Tree of 25 metres, foliage drooping." Balbarrup, Blackwood River (Dr. L. 

 Diels, No. 2,616). Bridgetown, also on the Blackwood (C. H. Ostenfeld, No. 509). 

 Vasse River (near Busselton), in clayey, sandy land (Dr. L. Diels, No. 2,655). 



