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specimens were cut from is another mature tree with timber of a dark red colour. Bloodwood is fairly 

 abundant along the sandy coast country north of Twofold Bay on a stretch running parallel with the sea, 

 and about 3 to -I miles in width. I have no doubt that a certain percentage of these trees contain wood 

 ■ of a pale colour, but as far as observed, there being no true, outward indications to prove two different 

 specu s of Eucalypts, it is impossible, to give any idea of quantity. There is no Bloodwood along the 

 southern foreshores of Twofold Bay, nor along a . iv of the coast country. I have travelled to Cape Howe, 

 but inland, and close to the Victorian border, I am reliably informed that there is a small quantity. The 

 Victorian Forest Guard stationed at Genoa tells me there is plenty of Bloodwqod in his district, both White 

 and Red. ? ' 



Victoria. — Here follows testimony from a Eucalyptus observer wlio is a well- 

 known timber expert, and this should be read in conjunction with my statement at 

 Part XXXIX. p. 246, as to the Victorian range of E. corymbosa, and of E. intermedia 

 at p. 253. Mr. Hopkins is an architect, and was for very many years the Public Works 

 Inspector for Gippsland. It will be observed that he looks upon E. corymbosa as 

 including what Sir. Baker calls E. intermedia. Another Victorian, Mr. C. Daley, appears 

 to hold a similar view, and therefore it seems futile to give separate Victorian 

 boundaries for E. intermedia as distinct from E- corymbosa in the present state of our 

 knowledge. If E. intermedia is looked upon as a colour variety of E. conjmbosa, all 

 our queries as to range disappear. At all events, I have established a case for the 

 fullest inquiry. 



" I am much interested in the descriptive notes on E. cor/jiiibosq and its affinities. I notice you 

 have some doubt about its southern (Victorian) limit. It is fairly plentiful around Mallaeopta Inlet, 

 intermixed with other species, such as E. Sieberiana, E. cafitgllqtq, E. eugenioides, and it extends along 

 the coastal tracts to about the Wingan River, which I believe is its southern limit. I have seen no sign 

 of it west of the Wingan, and it does not appear to reach far inland. It touches the Cann River to 

 Genoa-road at one point only — near the 76-mile tree,, where a few scattered trees are seen. It does not 

 appear to ascend on to even the foot-hills of the ranges in Victoria, and J believe it is there confined 

 to a small strip, not more than 10 or 15 miles wide from the coast, and with the Wingan River as its 

 south-western boundary. The timber generally is rather pale coloured, very full of ' gum veins,' though 

 some trees are darker coloured, brown or reddish in the heart wood. I will send you some specimens 

 gathered at Mallacoota." (Harry Hopkins, Bairnsdale, Victoria, 27th April, 1920.) 



'The other (Xo. 2) specimens are from a mature or old tree at MallacootaWest, collected in November, 

 1913. This tree was felled for foundation blocks for a school building at Mallacoota West. The wood 

 was so pale coloured that when I saw the blocks I doubted if they were Bloodwood, and to satisfy myself 

 I went out to where they were got (only about half a mile) and saw the tree from which they were 

 obtained, and took my specimens from it. Tree 2-i or 3 feet in diameter. Wood very full of gum-veins. 

 but. otherwise quite sound." (H. Hopkins, 4th May, 1920.) 



I received specimens labelled No. 1 and No. 2 in due course, and do not know 

 how to separate them from E. corymbosa. Indeed, the question of a difference between 

 that species and E. intermedia would not have been raised except in regard to the colour 



of the timber. 



