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thickly clothed with scrub that one begins to lose sight of it, especially north of 
Cardwell. I remember seeing it on the Herbert River and on the Barron ; but at 
Herberton and on the table-land it is not uncommon.” ( Proc. Linn. Soc., vii, 331.) 
Var. latifolia is probably referred to in the above passage. 
3.—Var. squamosa, Maiden. 
Synonym. — E. squamosa, Deane and Maiden {Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S. TV., 
1897, p. 561). 
A medium-sized tree, with a scrambling and drooping habit, often stunted. 
Bark smooth or scaly, often blotched; timber soft and faulty. Gtoavs in low- 
lying and barren places. Timber dark red ; evidently a depauperate form. 
Foliage glaucous or dull green; fruits small, and with a narrow, rather 
sharp rim, opercula hemispherical or ovoid. The sunk space between the valves 
shows undoubted affinity to E. saligna (N.S.W. Blue Gum). 
Mueller called varieties brevifolia and squamosa, var. amblycorys, testimony 
to the closeness of their relationships. 
Bentham looked upon var. squamosa as a variety of E. viminalis, and said, 
“ identical with the specimens collected by Caley, with a hemispherical calyx-tube, 
and broad, almost globular, operculum.”—(B.F1. iii, 240). 
These specimens I afterwards found in the A r ienna Herbarium. It is 
interesting that Caley, Avho was botanical collector in New South Wales for Sir 
Joseph Banks (1800-10), gave the aboriginal name as “ Calgargro.” Bentham has 
also (under viminalis ), “near Duck River” (Parramatta); “Drooping Gum,” 
Woolls. I have also seen these specimens, and they are var. squamosa. 
The precise range of this variety remains to be defined. The most southerly 
locality known to me is Hill Top (Southern Line); the most westerly, Agnes Banks, 
near Richmond ; while I do not know any locality north of the Hawkesbury. 
Other southern localities are Bargo Brush, Tliirlmere, National Park, and 
Bankstown and Cabramatta. I have also got it at Berowra and Peat’s Road, near 
the Hawkesbury. 
4.—Var. Eancrofti, Maiden, var. nov. 
Synonyms.— Var. brevifolia, Bentli., partim ; E. Eancrofti, Maiden. 
Var. brevifolia, Benth. “Leaves mostly ovate or oblong, obtuse. New 
England, in very exposed situations in the mountains.”—C. Stuart. 
Stuart’s specimens are Nos. 7, 127, and 308. One label reads : “ From most 
exposed parts of mountains. A. straggling tree, 20-30 feet; very smooth white 
bark, separating in thin scabs.” Another reads: “ A large tree, but frequently 
flowering when young.” 
