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entry is " CX (CXI was similar). Callislcmon (Water Gum) ; banks of freshwater 
creeks, Clarence District. A small sized tiee, timber very strong and tough, used 
for boats' knees and braces, axe and chisel handles. Shavings of this wood will 
bind like a ribbon." 
' Wood of a red colour, close in grain, hard and tough ; used for ship building 
and wheelwrights' work." (Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 167, as C. lanceolatus). 
Range. It is a denizen of the banks or beds of rivers and creeks. 
If Mueller's specimen is not a cultivated one it occurs in north-eastern Victoria, 
but it seems very doubtful. Going north, our nearest record is from the Hunter River 
(and our most certain southerly record), and then we trace it, coastally, to the Gulf 
of Carpentaria. 
It is, however, not confined to the coastal districts, as in Queensland we have 
it westerly as far as the Upper Burdekin River, and in New South Wales we find it on 
a high table-land (New England), and on the western slopes of the table-land at 
Bingara and Howell. 
I have often seen the species when I have not had opportunities of collecting 
it, and I do not doubt that it will prove to be far the most widely distributed of the 
arboreal Callistemons. 
VICTORIA. 
German Creek, East Gippsland (Mueller). Locality to be proved. Perhaps or 
probably a cultivated plant. 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Hunter River (R. Brown, No. 4,661, 1802-5); Williams' River (J. L. Boorman); 
Copeland to Gloucester (E. Betche); Gloucester to Taree (W. Heron); Taree (E. H. F. 
Swain); Dalmorton, near Grafton (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.); Tooloom, on banks 
and bed of the river (J.H.M.); Tabulam (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.); Upper Clarence 
River (E. Cheel); Lismore, on banks of Richmond River (W. Baeuerlen); Richmond 
River (Rev. W. Woolls) ; Sandiland Range (J. L. Boorman) ; Boonoo Boonoo (J. L. 
Boorman); Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range (W. Dunn); Mount Warning (W. 
Forsyth); New England (C. Stuart, Nos. 7-8); Bingara (J. L. Boorman); Howell, 
near Inverell (J. L. Boorman and J.H.M.). 
QUEENSLAND. 
Ipswich (Nernst). 
" A good specimen of Bottle Brush, height about 75 feet, girth at the ground 6 ft, 10 in., and girth 
up 7 feet is 5 ft. 10 in. 
" I thought that parhaps it would b3 a revelation to som? to find this tree grows to such dimensions 
here. 
" The South Barhamba or Barker's Creek bounds my land for about 2 miles on one side, is good 
and permanent water at all times. This is nsarly due north-west from Brisbans 100 miles, and the 
elevation is about 1,200 feet. The climate is excellent, and very much good land. This creek is lined 
with this tree, and when in flower is particularly handsome." (C. H. Grove, " Kelvin Grove," Nanango, 
Qld.) (See the photographic illustrations.) 
