300 



Sugar Loaf Mountain (Monga), Braidwood (W. Baeuerlcn). Recorded previously 

 as E. stricta var. (Part IX, pp. 279, 282.) " Tall trees of 40-60 feet, and 12-14 feet in 

 giith. The butts of the trees have a fibrous-scaly bark, becoming clean-stemmed 

 onwards. Known locally as White Gum.'' Sugar Loaf Mountain (J. L. Bcorman). 



Tree of 15 to 20 feet high, top of Mt. Budawang (J. L. Boorman, March, 1909). 

 Tree about 30 feet high, a symmetrical pyramidal tree. Near top of Mt. Budawang 

 (4,000 feet), Mongarlowe, Braidwood district (F. W. Wakefield, No. 18, May, 1918). 



" ' White Mountain Ash.' State Forest, No. 577. Tallaganda, Braidwocd 

 district. It is only found on the crowns or highest points of the main ridge, Jinderoo 

 Pass, &c." (C. Weston, No. 56). The mill hands call it ' Ribbony Peppermint,' as the 

 top is whitish with libbony bark, while the barrel is rough— more, to my mind, like 

 a messmate." (Forest-Guard Ralph C. Blacket.) 



' White Mountain Ash." ' The most highly-prized of all local timbers. Has 

 a rough, non-fibrous bark, extending about 5 to 8 feet up the stem, when the bark 

 becomes quite smooth and white." Parker's Gap, between Queanbeyan and Braidwood. 

 (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, Forest Assessor, Forestry Commission, No. 6.) 



Mr. de Beuzeville furnishes the following interesting report : — 



-It is the predominating timber mi the extreme southern portion of the Tallaganda State Forest, 

 and 1 am informed it continues right along the range in the same abundance as far at least as the Big Badger. 

 It appears to have a very low fire-resisting ]> wer. When overlooking Tallaganda State Forest from any 

 high knob, the. belts of this species can be easily located by the dead and whitened tops of the fire-killed 

 trees, though the surrounding species (generally E. regnans) have quite recovered. Not only scattered 

 trees arc destroyed in this way, but whole belts are killed outright. I have seen in the vicinity of Mount 

 Tumanang, in the parish of Oronmear, belts of 4.00 to 500 acres of this timber absolutely destroyed, not a 

 living tree left in the belt. These belts contain trees of all sizes, and ages, and all have suffered equally. 

 It is a most remarkable sight, these belts of fire-killed timber, when viewed from above, giving the impression 

 of the ssttlers' ringbarked paddocks in the heart of the mountains. The species appears to be a very free 

 regenerator, and a few years after a fire has killed out a belt, a dense growth of seedlings appears. I have 

 seen some of these old burns carrying an average of 500 trees over 6 inches in diameter per acre. It is 

 the most prolific, rcgrowth that I have seen. The tree generally favours the roughest granite spurs, usually 

 on the top if there are plenty of boulders, but if the spur top is fairly smooth, it then grows on the rough 

 slopes. 



"Arboreal form of E. stricta" (see Part IX, p. 282). Trees up to 40 feet high. 

 Scaly bark at base, whitish and smooth on upper part of trunk. Suckers up to 2 inches 

 broad. West Albion Park, near Macquarie Pass (R. H. Cambage, June, 1901). 



" Arboreal form of E. stricta." 2 feet in diameter. Growing just under edge of 

 cliff. Hawkesbury sandstone. Bong Bong Pass, West Dapto (R. H. Cambage, 19th 

 May, 1901). 



Fhzroy Falls (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.). 



