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RANGE. 



It appears to be confined to Western Australia, but I expect it to b3 found in 

 South Australia, adjacent to the Transcontinental line. It is a dry country species, 

 and has not hitherto been recorded west of Rabbit-proof Fence No. 2, i.e., near Tatnrain. 

 Going east, our localities roughly follow the railway line to Kalgoorlie, and thence north 

 to Goongarrie. North-east of Kalgoorlie we know it from the Fraser Range and some 

 distance further east. 



The Victorian localities quoted in Part III belong to E. frulkelormn. 



It is Drummond's No. 34 (5th Coll.), 1849. 



The following are authenticated localities : — 



Elder Exploring Expedition, (a) Camp 63, W.A., 27th September, 1891, and 

 (b) 40 miles north-west of Fraser's Range, 4th November, 1891 (both R. Helms). These 

 specimens were labelled E. joecunda by Professor Tate. They have leaves rather broader 

 than the Coolgardie specimens, see Plate 10 (b). 



(a) Turning to the Journal of the Expedition, p. 112, we find that the expedition 

 was at the Ponton River, and the leader speaks of seeing Blackbutt at the camp, and 

 that it " is a most useful timber, very hard, dense, splitting very straight ; the natives 

 make their spears out of it." 



(b) This is Camp 71, and the Journal (p. 128) records "... We came to a 

 big patch of splendid Blackbutt timber. . . . The Blackbutt timber is of the 

 Eucalyptus species (genus ) ; it is a useful timber, splitting easily. The natives make their 

 long spears out of this wood. " 



Following are field notes of trees from three localities, made by myself in 1909 : — 



(] ) Two feet in diameter, box-like bark, smooth branches, fruit rather small 

 (as small as E. gracilis often is). Foliage somewhat pendulous. Kalgoorlie. 



(2) " White Gum " or " Blackbutt." Suckers glaucous (stems square), medium- 

 broadish. Timber cigar brown, a little bark (rough) at butt, smooth above. Fruit 

 urceolate, somewhat like E. gracilis, but quite different from " Snap and Rattle," 

 (E. gracilis). Lannin's timber camp, about 70 miles north of Kurrawang. 



(3) " Blackbutt," 18 inches in diameter, 30 feet high, more or less pendulous. 

 Branchlets glaucous. Did not find suckers. Rough bark extending more up trunk than 

 E. Clclandi, which is more fibrous flaky than the present form. Goongarrie, 54 miles 

 north of Kalgoorlie. 



E. celastroides may be briefly described by foresters as a coarse form of E. gracilis. 



Coolgardie (L. C. Webster), see Plate 10 (c). Coolgardie district near Southern 

 Cross. Now infrequently in open muddy soil, flowered and fruited May (E. Pritzel, PL 

 Auslr. occ. 332; D. 2843); near Bullabulling, in muddy, stony soil, fruited October 

 (D. 5220). Diels and Pritzel, he. tit. 



Yilgam (W. V. Fitzgerald). 



Kellerberrin (W. V. Fitzgerald). Habitat in the Avon district, near Tammin, 

 in muddy eucalyptus tracts ; fruits in the month of May (D. 3127 ). (Diels and Pritzel. ) 



