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work. The specimens " fruit rather globular, but not perfectly ripe," Spit-road, Manly, 

 Port Jackson- (J. L. Boorman), figured at fig. 3, Plate 123, do not belong to E. punctata 

 var, grandiflora (E. canaliculata) ; they belong to E. punctata, though they are rather 

 larger than those of the type. 



SYNONYM. 



E. punctata DC, var. grandiflora Deane and Maiden, in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xxvi, 133 (1901). 



It seems to be confined to New South Wales. " I have only observed the large- 

 fruited Grey Gum in the counties of Gloucester and Durham. It seems, so far as I have 

 seen, to occupy the intermediate country a little back from the coast to near the eastern 

 slopes of the Dividing Range. I do not think it is very plentiful, but small patches 

 of it are occasionally met with, besides isolated trees, and it often associates more 

 or less with the small-fruited Grey Gum, E. propinaua."" (The late Augustus Rudder 

 in a letter to the writer, dated 31st August, 1893.) 



It grows in company with Ironbark (E. paniculata) and abundance of E. saligna. 

 It is very scarce in the Dungog district (J. L. Boorman). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. saligna Sm. 



The similarity of these trees is chiefly in their barks, but the differences between 

 them in this respect have been already stated. Mr. Boorman says that, at Dungog, the 

 direction of the branches in E. canaliculata is more horizontal and the shape less inclined 

 to be pyramidal as in E. saligna. The floral organs and the timber, of course, sharply 

 separate them. (See Plates 99 and 100, Part XXIII, of the present work, for E. saligna.) 



2. With E. punctata DC. 



The new species is nearer E. punctata (indeed, it has been regarded as a variety 

 of it) than E. saligna, but the discovery that E. canaliculata has a pale timber at once 

 showed that it must be removed from E. punctata and other species with red timbers. 

 For drawings of details of E. punctata see the present work, Part XXIX, Plates 121 and 

 122, while that of E. canaliculata are in the same Part (as E. punctata var. grandiflora) 



