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RANGE. 



Up to the present it has been collected between Mittagong and Wombeyan Caves, 

 and at Marrangaroo, New South Wales. The following are the definite localities :— 



Back of Chalybeate Spring, near the Gib, Mittagong (D. W. C. Shiress, January, 

 1922). 



Bowral-Berrima road, about 3i miles from Mittagong (same collector, April, 

 1920). 



Bowral- Wombeyan Caves road, near the junction of the old Mittagong and 

 Joadja roads (D.W.C.S., April, 1922). In April, 1923, I visited the same locality 

 accompanied by Mr. Shiress and obtained specimens, which constitute the type. The 

 trees were growing in poor white pipeclay-like soil, and resembled E. eugenioides in 

 general appearance except that the bark is flatter and in broad strips, extending nearly 

 to the branches, and not rough and fibrous throughout like E. eugenioides. 



One mile west of Wingello, small patches on poor clay soil (W. Murphy, August, 

 1924). 



' Three miles south of Marulan on the side of a gravelly ridge. Bark smooth 

 except on trunk, black flaky bark." (Andrew Murphy, March, 1905.) 



Eighteen miles from Wombeyan Caves, Bullio to Wombeyan (J. H. Maiden, 

 October, 1905). 



Marrangaroo, 102 miles west of Sydney (Dr. E. C. Chisholm, October, 1922). 

 The leaves and buds are identical with those of E. Callanii, but the bark appears to be 

 less fibrous, except at the base. It is a young tree, and therefore the bark is not mature. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Laseroni R. T. Baker. 



Both species are small Stringybarks with almost the same cortical characters, 

 but the branches of E. Laseroni are usually smooth and gum-like, and the leaves are 

 broader and have a different venation to those of E. Callainii. There are also essential 

 distinctions in the buds and fruits of both species. The half developed buds of E. Laseroni 

 are narrower and more stellate, and when mature are more clavate than the buds of 

 E. Callanii. The fruits of the former are more depressed than the fruits of the latter, 

 while the timber of E. Laseroni is yellowish-brown, that of E. Callanii white. 



Geographically the species are widely separated. E. Laseroni is found nearly 

 400 miles north of Sydney, and it appears to prefer a better: class of soil to E. Callanii. 



