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E. clavigera growing near. Trees of E. papuana were seen intermittently from Alma-den to Normanton, 

 on the Gilbert, Flinders, Corella, and Cloncurry Rivers, and around Barcaldine, and were in most cases 

 smooth and white to the ground, and known as Cabbage Gum. 



" In the river country the Cabbage Gum is nearly always white to the ground, and is a very shapely 

 and umbrageous tree, about 40 to 50 feet high, and undoubtedly seems to be worthy of specific rank. I was 

 informed that in the lower Flinders district these trees withstood the drought of 1902 better than any other 

 Eucalypt. 



i; It seems likely that the trees mentioned by Leichhardt (op. cit., pp. 325, 351 and 355) as White-gum 

 and Drooping White-gum are of this species." (R. H. Cambage, in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., XLIX, pp, 

 406-407, 1915.) 



' ; White Gum." Jericho (W. of Emerald) on the railway line 164 miles west of 

 Eockhampton (Crown Lands Agent, 1913). 



' Desert Gum." " Cabbage Gum." " A smooth-barked tree, the outer bark, 

 when falling away, coming off in chips, not in flakes or ribbons. It has much the 

 appearance of E. tesselaris, but the leaves are larger and fleshier than those of that 

 species. The tesselated bark, characteristic of E. tesselaris, is absent, except quite at 

 the base, and then the rough bark is irregular in size and shape. Trees go to a large 

 size, but timber not lasting." Emerald (J. L. Boorman). Mr. Blakely points out that 

 the inflorescence is in a drooping or deflexed cyme. 



West Eockhampton (W. N. Jaggard). Eockhampton, just inside the tropic 

 (Amalia Dietrich; E. Simmons). " Has tesselated bark at butt, but leaves more fleshy, 

 twigs more brittle, fruits larger and flowers more hid in the axillary umbels by the 

 larger and more pendulous leaves. Fairly common at North Eockhampton on the 

 flats to the foot of the ranges." (J. L. Boorman.) P. O'Skanesy gives the aboriginal 

 names as " Bidhyulla " and " Dangalboora." 



St. Lawrence, near Broad Sound in lat. 23-30 deg. (T. Tate). 



Bockinghain Bay (J. Dallacky, No. 109). 18 deg. 5 min. 



With leaves varying from lanceolate and an inch broad (Chillagoe) to broadly 

 lanceolate, 2\ inches broad (Kimberley, 1,544). Buds nearly spherical and with short 

 pedicels. Chillagoe, Cairns Eailway, 138 miles west of Cairns, North Queensland (E. 

 Doran). 



Stannary Hills (Dr. T. L. Bancroft, No. 310). 1 think these specimens are 

 intermediate between E. papuana and E. grandifolia, with a bias towards the latter, 

 and have a note on them at p. 191. 



' Desert Gum." " It grows best on sandy flats and sand ridges; it is not plentiful. 

 Single trees only are scattered through the forest, where Bloodwood grows. Bark 

 rusty white, which is shed in patches. It is a good useful timber when aged. It is 

 mostly sound and is not a favourite with white ants. It is our best foliage tree amongst 

 a very inferior lot." Mirtna Station via Charters Towers. A few miles south-east of 

 the crossing of the lines 21 deg. S. lat. and 146 deg. E. long. (Miss Zara Clark). Fruits 

 very bell-shaped, but not quite ripe. 



; ' Cabbage Gum or Pudding Wood." Eeid Eiver via Townsville (G. E. Skelton). 



