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It is represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney, from tin following 

 localities:— " Flooded Gnm," Booral district (A. Rudder); Port Stephens 

 (Miss Connolly); "Flooded Gum," Failford to Forster (J.H.M.); Port Macquarie 

 (G. R. Brown), as "Blue Gum"; Coffs Harbour (J. L. Boorman), as " Blue Gum"; 

 Moonee, Woolgoolga (E. H. F. Swain), as "Blue Gum"; "A gum, purple bark, 

 shaggy base, on poor soil," Woolgoolga (E. H. F. Swain); Alstoirvillc, Lismore, and 

 Ballina (W. Baeuerlen) ; Richmond River (C. Fawcett) ; Mullumbimby (W. Baeucrlcn). 



The original describers of it as a variety recorded it from the following northern 

 localities :— Gosford, Narara, Booral, Bullahdelah, Lismore, and Tumbulgum. 



Queensland. 

 " Flooded Gum," creeks north of Macphcrson Range (R. N. Jolly); Maroochie 

 (F. M. Bailey); Beech Mount v'n, near Canungera ; also Tambourine Mountain 

 (J. Shirley); Blackall Range (C. T. White); "Flooded Gum," Landsborough 

 (P. MaoMahon), in leaf only. 



By far the most northerly locality is that of the following, sent by Mr. District 

 Forest Inspector H. W. Mocatta from northern Queensland. " Flooded Gum. Near 

 Atherton and throughout northern table-lands; found principally in high country on 

 scrub fringes, very tall, straight barrel of large girth, carries black scaly bark from 10 

 to 15 feet upwards from butt, thence upwards a white smooth bark, continually shedding 

 outer bark in long festoons from branches downwards." 



(The specimen raferre 1 to under E. sdligna in B.F1. iii, 215, as "Richmond 

 River (Beckler) " is E. grandis. 



It is cultivated in Algiers, North Africa, under the name of E. bolryoidcs var., 

 according to a specimen I received from Dr. L. Trabut, No. 110, in 1901.) 



VARIETY. 



gi audi flora Maiden. 

 In Pro:: Roy. So:. N.S.W., Hi, 502 (1918). 

 Many species have a large-fruited form, and it appears to me that E. grandis 

 is one of these. Fruits cylindroid, slightly urceolate, 1 cm. long, S mm. broad, calyx- 

 tube usually with one marked rim tapering into the flattened pedicel. Peduncles 2-2-5 

 cm., flattened. The fruits glaucous, valves slightly exsert. E. H. F. Swain, Carinda, 

 near Woolgoolga, N.S.W.. No. 17, associated with Blue Gum, Ironbark, and Apple 

 (September, 1905). 



This is identical with or closely allied to (1) Bulladelah, N.S.W. (A. Murphy, Jr., 

 June, 1911); (2) " Rough bark up to limbs, but not Bangalay (E. botryoides)," Green 

 Point, near Gosford, N.S.W. (A. Murphy, July, 1910). 



This proposed variety requires further investigation. It has red timber, and 

 varies in regard to the amount of rough bark on the butt. It has affinities both with 

 E. robusta Sm. and E. Kirtoniana F.v.M. 



It is figured at figs. 7 and 8, Plate 167. 



