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RANGE. 



Dealt with at Part XII, p. 72. The following localities are additional : — ■ 



New South Wales. — " Silver-leaved Ironbark." Arrara, Paroo district (J. L. 

 Boorman) ; " Fairly large trees, with bark cork-like or fibrous of a blackish cast. Has 

 silvery leaves, hence one of its names. Timber often faulty. Grows in masses at 

 the foot-hills of the western slopes." Narromine (J. L. Boorman); "Three feet in 

 diameter and over ninety feet high," 40 and 50 miles north-west of Collarendebri 

 (Sid. W. Jackson); " Silver-leaved Ironbark," Wee Waa (J. W. Taylor); " Silver-leaf 

 Ironbark," 2nd bore, Yarrie Lake Road, Pilliga Scrub, about 14 miles W.S.W. of 

 Narrabri (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 16); About 10 miles north from Baradine, Pilliga 

 Road (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 73) ; Fine belt 17-14 miles from Narrabri, Gunnedah 

 Road. Occurs on sand-ironstone, basalt, &c, red loams, always on good wheat soils. 

 Accompanies Pine (Callitris) and Box (E. albens). (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 158); 

 4 feet girth, 40 feet high. Manilla, Parish Namoi, County Darling (Forest Guard 

 M. H. Simon, No. 121); Glaucous foliage, short, dark bole, 3-4 feet in girth, height 

 45 feet. Hollow, eaten by white ants, containing 5-14 posts. Gregarious, but scattered 

 in grassy country. Warialda, and between the Gwydir and Mclntyre Rivers 

 generally (District Forester E. H. F. Swain, No. 7) ; also, Warialda (W. A. W. 

 de Beuzeville), -with lanceolate leaves (see Part XII, p. 71). This particular 

 specimen is referred to at length by me in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlvii, 223 (1913), 

 and also lih, 71 (1919). 



Queensland. — Inglewood, South-Western Line, near New South Wales border 

 (J. L. Boorman) ; Toowoomba, Western Line, 101 miles from Brisbane (H. A. 

 Longman); Roma, 318 miles, and Mitchell, 372 miles (Rev. J. H. Simmonds); 

 Charleville, 483 miles (E. B. Atkins) ; Broad or Silver-leaved Ironbark, Esk 

 (L. Lewis) ; " Silver-leaved Ironbark," Kilcoy (J. C. McMinn) ; Gayndah (G T. White) ; 

 Eidsvold (Dr. T. L. Bancroft) ; ' The local Ironbark. Does not attain a large size, 

 nor is it too sound. It is, however, recognised as a useful timber in constructive work 

 when it is sound." Emerald, Central Railway Line, 166 miles from Rockhampton 

 (J. L. Boorman); Sapphire or Anakie, 193 miles west of Rockhampton, just south of 

 Clermont (A. Morrison); Bogantungan, at 1,100 feet, 220 miles (R. H. Cambage, 

 No. 3974); "Ironbark," Gadwall, Alpha, 273 miles (G. T. Wood); Broad-leaved 

 Ironbark, Reid River, via Townsville (Nicholas Daley); "Broad-leaved Ironbark," 

 The Plains, Prairie, North Queensland (J. R. Chisholm) ; Gilbert River (C. T. White) ; 

 ' Tree of 30-40 feet, Silver-leaved Box." Croydon, North Queensland (R. H. 

 Cambage, No. 4006, also James Gill). 



Dr. H. I. Jensen (in a letter) says that — 



" E. melcmophloia is very widespread on dry stony ridges, both volcanic and slate, with good but 

 shallow soil throughout North Queensland. I call it ' Silver-leaf Ironbark,' and state' that it is 

 calciphije, but does not grow on limestone. The soil texture is heavy — fair capillarity, stone subsoil on 



