164. 



He goes on to say that Professor Tate first found it on Kangaroo Island, and 

 that Professor Tate and he found it to be the largest timber tree on the island, and 

 apparently confined to the banks of rivers and creeks. 



Following are some notes I made in regard to the species in the field, at no great 

 distance from the type locality. 



I studied this species pretty carefully from Port Lincoln to Lake Wangary, 

 where, however, the most valuable trees do not grow (the type, however, comes from 

 the Marble Range, close by Lake Wangary). It is, in this district, an inferior species, 

 and the warning is not inappropriate that seed collected from localities such as this 

 will produce inferior trees. It is a White Gum, more or less scaly-barked like the 

 eastern haemastoma. Rather straggling and spreading, a good head of dark-coloured, 

 rather broadish, shiny foliage. Timber whitish, hence " White Gum " ; looked upon 

 locally as inferior to Red (leucoxylon). " White Ants go through it," I was informed 

 locally. At 7-8 miles from Port Lincoln (old road); it often has the grey bark of one 

 of the New South Wales Grey Gums (punctata). Timber pale, but slightly brown in 

 the middle. Abundant at 11 miles. It often sheds the greyish outer bark, and then 

 becomes smooth brown all over like the eastern Ang op flora lanceolata. At 12-14 miles 

 we have an association between it and Xanthorrhosa scmiplana. The cladocalyx does 

 not impress me here. It reminds me of Angophora lanceolata in its goutiness and gnarled- 

 ness. It has a thick, sappy bark of a rich orange colour. I also collected the species 

 at Port Augusta. (Proc. Roy. Soc., S.A., XXXII, 278 (1908).) 



E. dadocalyx, under the name of " Sugar Gum," has been so extensively planted 

 in Australia, particularly in other parts of South Australia, and also in Western Aus- 

 tralia, Victoria, and New South Wales, and to a less extent in Queensland, that one 

 must be careful in recording a cultivated plant as indigenous. 



In New South Wales we find it a very useful tree for shade and ornamental pur- 

 poses in the drier parts of the State, in spite of the fact that in a number of cases it 

 has developed a tendency to brittleness of its large branches, which is, of course very 

 undesirable, particularly in towns. 



AFFINITIES. 



" The shape of the unopened calyx distinguishes E. corynocalyx from any other 

 species hitherto known." (" Eucalyptographia "). 



Mr. Walter Gill points out that the flutings (on the fruit) are not noticeable on 

 cultivated specimens; certainly they may be reduced in prominence. 



1. With E. fasciculosa F.v.M. 



" Among those of this colony (South Australia) it is most like E. fasciculosa '' 

 (original description). 



