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The trees provisionally identified as Eucalyptus Thozet- 

 iana were seen only between Weemaii and Yamala, and 

 the original note concerning them made in the passing 

 train reads: — "An erect gum tree of fair size with narrow 

 leaves slightly shining; white to ground; a fresh species." 

 Their height averaged about fifty feet and they probably 

 form the identical group referred to by Tenison-Woods in 

 1882 as E. gracilis, (Op. cit., Vol. vn, p. 338), and also by 

 P. A. O'Shanesy (Op. cit., p. 24). 



Eucalyptus Cambageana, the Blackbutt of the Comet 

 River and Ooowarra districts was first noticed between 

 Jericho and Beta, thence onwards at intervals to Gogango, 

 often growing with Acacia harpophylla (Brigalow). 



Eucalyptus exserta was first noticed between Wallaroo 

 and Duaringa. It is an umbrageous pendulous tree from 

 forty to seventy feet high, with slightly fibrous, brown 

 bark somewhat resembling that of the Peppermint group, 

 and has fruits like those of E. tereticornis, but with 

 remarkably exserted valves. 



Trees of Eucalyptus Raveretiana were seen on the creek 

 bank between the seventeenth mile-post and Stanwell, and 

 were noted as resembling a round-leaved Ooolabah (E. 

 microtlieca). 



Eucalyptus populifolia, the Poplar Box or Shiny-leaved, 

 or Bimble Box of western New South Wales, was not seen 

 on the Flinders or Diamantina waters nor at Longreach. It 

 was first met with between Salturn and Barcaldine to the 

 east of Longreach, while between Barcaldine and Geera it 

 is very common. How far northward of Geera it extends 

 I unable to say, but, there are miles of it between Alice 

 and Jericho, and it goes eastward to Rockhampton, and 

 comes southerly to Wyalong and Wentworth in New South 

 Wales. Although it is one of the well-known western 

 species, it cannot be said to be common on the black-soil 



