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this species and E. globulus Labill. reproduced themselves rather freely in a forest of Pinus longifolia Roxb. 

 in Kumaon at about 5,500 feet after a severe forest fire, but most of the regeneration died off, apparently 

 from white ants and drought, and it is doubtful if very much will become established. 



If correspondents will let me know what species have succeeded and what failed, 

 in their respective countries, we may be able to help them, should they desire to obtain 

 further information as to suitable species for cultivation. 



As regards species already introduced, besides herbarium specimens of flowers 

 and fruit and also juvenile leaves, information should be given as to where they 

 were grown, approximate elevation above sea-level, miles from sea, soil and drainage, 

 nature of bark, colour of timber — indeed, any information conveniently available. 



7. Additions to Range of Individual Species. 



The number in front of a species-name is that given to the species when it was 

 first dealt with in the present work. Thus the meaning of No. 118, as applied to 

 E. acaciceformis, for example, will be seen when Part XXII, p. 261, is turned to. The 

 notes on Range now given are supplementary to those originally recorded. 



There are many more or less wide areas of Australia which remain to be explored 

 botanically and otherwise. Every step in this direction will help our knowledge of the 

 distribution of Eucalypts. I am referring chiefly to the drier and more inaccessible 

 areas, such as are readily indicated by the Climographs. 



The numbers of species attributed to certain areas are doubtless affected by 

 the thoroughness, or the reverse, of the botanical investigation of those areas, particularly 

 during recent years. As regards many species, we find them as far as the edge of the 

 " Never-Never Country," and then we lose sight of them. A fair presumption is that 

 we shall find these species again when we can explore further. We must not entertain 

 the idea that any part of Australia has been fully explored botanically. All that we 

 can safely say is that some parts have been better explored than others. I have often 

 been asked if all the species of Eucalyptus have now been described, or nearly so, and 

 have invariably replied that, in my opinion, we are not much past the beginning of 

 the subject. The questions of distribution which await settlement will assist in the 

 solution of fascinating problems of phytogenesis. Completion of the material (par- 

 ticularly in the direction of seedlings and juvenile leaves), attributed to doubtful or 

 doubted species, will probably further prove that a number must be called out of 

 abeyance. 



