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" Coolibuh, tree of 20 feet, crooked, low branching; foliage glaucous, limbs 
clean, rough bark on butt." Mungindi (E. H. F. Swain). 
This is the Coolabah whose suckers are, under the provisions of the Crown 
Lands Act of 1889, declared to be " scrub " in a Gazette notice of November, 
1904. (District Surveyor Arch. Lockhard, Moree.) 
Howell, near Inverell (E. C. Andrews). 
QUEENSLAND. 
Goondiwindi, near New South Wales border (Glasson, R. B. Mclntyre); 
Roxborough (through F. M. Bailey); Thargoraindah ; "Coolabah," Mulligan 
River. The seed is a favourite article of food of the blacks (H. Clarke). Butt 
and right up ,the main branches dark persistent bark, large spreading head, 
Rockhampton (W. N. Jaggard and J.H.M.). 
Dawson River, Coolibar, grows on flooded country only (A. Beck). 
Reid River, near Townsville (N. Daley). 
'- Coolabah " or " Flooded Box " is found on all Gulf (of Carpentaria) waters, 
often in flooded ground, of a crooked growth, about 30 feet his*h (E. W. Palmer, 
Proc. Soy. So?. N.f>. W., 1883, p. 106). Mr. Palmer's specimens cam-- from the 
Flinders. 
On 10th August, 189J, the late Rev. Dr. Woolls wrote to me as follows : 
I have just received a letter from Mr. E. Palmer in which the following passage occurs : 
"The specimens of Coolibah sent from the Flinders were designated by Baron Mueller as 
E. microthtta. The tree generally is of a crooked growth, but now and again in favoured localities of 
deep soil it is straight enough to make stockyard posts of, about 10 to 12 inches in diameter and 8 or 10 
feet long. The wood is excessively hard and inlocked, impossible to split, and hard to bore through. It 
requires especially good augers to bore it. The bark is rough and scaly, and the branches are not smooth 
and white. The colour of the wood is very dark brown." 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.. 
Lake Eyre (W. Baldwin Spencer). 
NORTH AUSTRALIA. 
Port Darwin. Not in fruit (M. Holtze) ; Victoria River, type (Mueller). 
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WEST AUSTRALIA. 
Murchison River (Oldfield). 
''Flooded Gum," Mount Narryer, Murchison (Isaac Tyson, per R. Helms) ; 
Milly's Soak, near Cue (W. V. Fitzgerald, J.H.M.). 
I wrote the following on the spot at Milly's Soak : " Large numbers of White 
Guins; they are white with a powdery surface, and a very little flaky bark at butt." 
So that E. microtheca is a White Gum in Western Australia ! 
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