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I published the following note concerning it in 1911 : — 



A white gum, a smooth-barked straggling tree of 20 feet, with a diameter of 9 inches and very little 

 scaly bark. As a rule seen as a bush. Wood pale chocolate brown towards the heart, but most of it white. 

 Branchlets brown, giving the tree a brownish cast. Juvenile leaves lanceolar, rarely broad. Leaves 

 pale-green, glaucous, equally green on both sides; Leaves in opposite stage to top of tree. It is the 

 exception for them to be alternate. Fruits yellowish, quadrangular. I only came across it at Minginew, 

 where it is rare. (J own. W.A. Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. III.) 



RANGE. 



The type comes from sandy plains and limestone hills near the Murchison River, 

 Western Australia. It was for many years believed to be confined to that State, but 

 I show it to also occur in South Australia and the Northern Territory. It is a species 

 of dry country. Drummond had previously collected it, under No. 69 (6th Collection). 



The following two specimens were received from Mueller, and are doubtless 

 , typical : — 



(a) Shrubby, 6-8 feet. Sand plain north of Mount Curious, Murchison River 

 (Augustus Oldfield). 



(b) " Eucalyptus ' Myallie ' of the aborigines (evidently the same as 'Mallalie' 

 'in the original description), from Pindaryah, north of Murchison " (Augustus Oldfield). 



" E. eudesmioides has been traced by the writer in 1877 from the Arrowsmith 

 River to near Shark's Bay over sand and limestone ground " (Mueller, in " Eucalypto- 

 graphia "). Found near Freycinet Harbour (Mueller, Shark Bay Report). 



Following are additional localities : — 



" Mallee, 10-12 feet high." Sand plains between Mogumber and Gillingarra 

 (W. V. Fitzgerald). In another label on specimens from the same locality he says, 

 " Sandy hillsides; stems smooth-barked." 

 . . Carnamah, Midland Railway line (Dr. A. Morrison). 



' Mt. Muggawah, Yandanooka, Arrowsmith River district (Dr. A. Morrison). 

 ,„ Small tree of 20-25 feet, Mingenew (W. V. Fitzgerald, J.H.M.). Shrub of l±-3 

 /metres, or small tree, young branches purplish, leaves glaucous. North of Mingenew 

 (Dr. L. Diels, No. 3035). 



The ^bove localities are all at no great distance from the west coast ; the following 

 /take a leap into the dry country easterly and we have no intermediate records. 



" The fine growth of Eucalyptus eudesmioides (Desert Gum) extending for over 

 100 miles gave the country a very pleasing aspect." Vicinity of Queen Victoria Spring. 



