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Bentham gives " Banks of the River Grose, R. Brown, and (lower) Blue Mountains, 

 Miss Atkinson.'''' Mueller (" Eucalyptographia " ) adds Bent's Basin (Woolls), which 

 is on the Nepean, about 22 miles south of its junction with the Grose. The Dogwood 

 Creek, Queensland, specimens, collected by Leichhardt and referred to in the 

 " Eucalyptographia," under E. eximia, are E. peltata F.v.M. 



It seems to be confined to the sandstone of eastern-central New South Wales, 

 its most southerly recorded locality being Jervis Bay, and northerly one Howe's Valley, 

 near Singleton, while the most westerly locality is Springwood, in the lower Blue 

 Mountains (1,200 feet). 



Southern localities. — A specimen in Herb. Cant., Ex herb. Lindl., labelled, " 7 feet 

 high, P. Jarvis, Fraser" (Jervis Bay, Fraser died in December, 1831) is E. eximia. 

 Another specimen, labelled " Eucalyptus sp., height 50 feet, flowers in September, 

 Port Jervis" (Jervis Bay) (Fraser), in Herb. Oxon. is this species, 



The next most southerly locality recorded is Shoalhaven River (Badgery's 

 Crossing to Nowra, W. Forsyth and A. A. Hamilton). It is remarkable that it has 

 never been recorded from Jervis Bay since Fraser's time, nor between Jervis Bay and 

 the Shoalhaven. 



Yalwal, 18 miles from Nowra, Shoalhaven district (R. H. Cambage). Picton 

 Lakes (R. H. Cambage). It is obvious that we want more collecting over southern 

 localities for this species. 



A large tree of this species used to be in Government House Grounds, just inside 

 the gates. It was demolished during the widening of Macquarie-street, in 1913. It 

 may have been an original specimen of the Sydney flora, still preserved to some extent 

 in the Outer Domain, but I doubt it. 



Western localities. — Very common about Glenbrook and Blaxland, but was not 

 observed beyond Springwood. October is the usual flowering time for this species, 

 but the evidence available on 12th November last went to show that, with but few 

 exceptions, it did not flower last spring; and it is worthy of note that it flowered profusely 

 in 1900 and 1902, but was almost destitute of flowers in 1901 (vide these Proceedings, 

 1902, p. 206). Many of the trees were rendered attractive in November by the display 

 of purple foliage on the young shoots. (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M. , Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W. xxx, 199, 1905). 



Mulgoa (R. H. Cambage, J.H.M. ). " This is the ' Mountain Bloodwood.' The 

 lark is generally different in texture from the other. It is not so thick, and looks more 

 like the bark of a Mahogany or Woolly Butt." Near Bent's Basin (Rev. Dr. Woolls). 



" Smooth-barked Bloodwood," specimen from cliffs near Bent's Basin (W. Woolls). 

 Bent's Basin, only on the sandstone ridge (J.H.M.). Bent's Basin is on the Nepean 

 River, a few miles south of Penrith. 



