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I have had the advantage of discussing this species with Mr. R. T. Baker from 
many points of view. He is at work on the technology of this timber, examining its 
merits for the supply of paper pulp and for other uses. 
Habitat. The type comes from the Yarrangobilly, Batlow, Tumberumba 
districts, and it has been found in the mountainous country in the counties of Wellesley, 
Wallace, and Selwyn, in south-eastern New South Wales. 
It has been so long confused with other White Gums that there is little doubt 
that its range will be very greatly extended on critical inquiry. 
It undoubtedly occurs in the adjacent country in Gippsland, Victoria. 
It is highly probable that the " broad suckered viminalis " from Tasmania 
(e.g., Hobart (Chimney Pot Hill, L. Rodway) and Sheffield (R. H. Cambage), and the 
Dee (J.H.M.), referred to in my paper in Proc. Roy. Soc. Tas. 1918, p. 88, belongs to 
this species. 
Following are some representative specimens from New South Wales : 
" A Mountain Gum." Peppercorn Plain, Yarrangobilly, about 20 miles north 
of Kiandra, elevation about 4,700 feet. W. A. W. de Beuzeville, Nos. 1, 2, 3. A large 
tree as described in his letter No. 409/20 January, 1920. (The type.) 
" Mountain Gum," Bago Forest Reserve, Batlow district (de Beuzeville, No. 1, 
January, and also March, 1917). 
" A White Gum," Yellowin Creek, Bago Forest Reserve (de Beuzeville, No. 2, 
January, 1917). 
" Large Gum-trees," Laurel Hill, Tumberumba (R. H. Cambage, No. 847). 
Considered at one time as coming between E. rubida and E. ovata (acervula). 
"This is like a broad-suckered E. viminalis, but the timber is much inferior 
to the ordinary. This tree grows generally on poor soil, and is usually stunted. 
Occasionally a large specimen may be seen growing with the ordinary viminalis." 
"Tallaganda Forest, Braidwood-Queanbeyan district (W. A. W. de Beuzeville, October, 
1918, No. 14). 
" An inferior White Gum," Parker's Gap, same general locality (de Beuzeville, 
October, 1918, No. 5). 
(Mr. de Beuzeville's No. 9, same place and date, is called " Ribbon Gum," and 
has the conventional narrow suckers of E. viminalis.) 
A very large shaft-like tree, whose dimensions are already referred to 
at p. 141 and 142. 
