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" Yah-niigne " was the name of the aborigines of the Illawarra, and " Booangie" 

 of those of Cumberland and Camden, N.S.W., according to the late Sir William 

 Macarthur. Mr. Forester Allan tells me that " Thurraney " was the name used by 

 the South Coast blacks. " Urar" is a Brisbane name, according to Mr. T. Petrie. 

 " Kangar " is a name employed by Queensland aborigines to denote the variety 

 citriodora. 



Many years ago Mr. Charles Hedley informed me that in Queensland certain 

 persons were affected by what is known as " Spotted Gum rash " after handling timber 

 of this species. He instanced one case (at Maryborough) in which a man was habitually 

 so indisposed after touching sawn Spotted Gum that he declined to handle it further. 

 This acridity of the sap must be rare, as I have only heard of one other case, and this 

 was in New South Wales. I have dealt with the matter in regard to other Eucalyptus 

 timbers in my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," Vol. V, p. 175. 



RANGE. 



The original describer quoted the following localities for the species : — •" Interior 

 of N. Holland (Fraser) [which was not far from the coast. — J.H.M.] ; Maitland, Liver- 

 pool and Newcastle (Backhouse)." Liverpool is about 20 miles south of Sydney, and 

 Newcastle and Maitland are about 100 miles to the north. 



It is confined to eastern Australia, extending from Gippsland, Victoria, in the 

 south, from south to north of New South Wales, along the coast and coastal ranges 

 and in Queensland to at least as far north as the Rockhampton district, while the variety 

 citriodora occurs as far north as the Gulf of Carpentaria. It prefers ridges and poor 

 country, and is commonly found with Ironbark. 



Victoria. 

 In " Eucalyptographia," under E. Watsoniana, Mueller records that Reader 

 found E. maculata in the neighbourhood of the Genoa River. It was subsequently 

 known from a specimen sent by Mr. J. H. King to the late Dr. A. W. Howitt, from the 

 eastern slope of a spur from the Tarra Mountain, on the track from Buchan to Orbost, 

 Gippsland, and about 15 miles from the former place, where it forms a small compact 

 colony of a few acres in extent. (Vict. Nat., xiii, 150, 1897.) I hope our southern 

 neighbours will connect this locality with the most southern of New South Wales 

 localities, for I do not know any very close to the border of the two States. 



New South Wales. 



Southern Localities. — " The Spotted Guru practically disappears after crossing the Bega River near 

 Tathra. I believe there is no sign of Spotted Gum at Eden, and none between Eden and the Victorian 

 border; there is a forest or two about Bermagui; there is also some between here (South Bermagui) and 

 the Bega River, but once the Bega River is crossed the tree is lost." (Forest Guard W. Dunn.) 



