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Blue and Flooded Gum. —See vol. i, p. 79. 
Following is a note by the late Augustus E-udder, but as it was unaccompanied 
by herbarium specimens or timber, it is not as valuable as it would otherwise be :— 
Blue Gum : E. saligna. —I have seen this tree up to 7 and 8 feet in diameter, with height of 
200 feet. The Cumberland Blue Gum is somewhat different to that. The former is mostly found growing 
on alluvial ground near and on banks of rivers and creeks in the North Coast country, and though 
leaves and fruit are very similar, the latter is the larger tree, and its bark near the ground, say from 15 to 
about 20 feet up, is usually rough and persistent. The timber of this tree, more especially lower logs of old 
trees, is hard, tough, and lasting ; that of young trees is very unreliable. The bark of these trees—Flooded 
Gum—as we used to call them, above where it is persistent, is thin, quite smooth, and of clear grey in 
colour. Timber light red. Besides this tree is another, not so large, bark deciduous to the ground, and 
of a pale blue in colour. Timber somewhat softer than that of the Flooded Gum, and of a darker and 
brighter red, and is not so strong and tough, nor, generally, so lasting. Sometimes it is found growing in 
brushes, but more frequently in the open, and extends further back from the coast and on to the hills. Is 
fairly plentiful in many places in the County of Gloucester. 
A note on Flooded Gum is as follows :— 
Flooded Gum grows on the creek banks of creeks running into the Richmond River—it also 
grows on the shelves on sides of hills amongst scrub reaching great height and girth—than on the ridges 
is less spongy as regards its wood than that on the creek banks. The owner of a large saw-mill at Kyogle 
staked out some boards 1 inch thick, 8 inches wide for twelve months ; they shrank to a width of 7 inches.— 
(A. W. Deane, L.S., Lismore.) 
Mr. Henry Deane, speaking of Glen Innes to Tenterfield, says:— 
Blue Gum (E. saligna). —The darker coloured varieties of this timber are in good repute. In the 
Sydney district the timber is used as well as Blackbutt for fencing. 
The last word lias not yet been said on Blue and Flooded Gum. 
ILLUSTRATION. 
Photo, by Kerry & Co., of a tree at Gosford, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. 
No. 12. Part IV. 
EucalypUis Deanei , Maiden. 
(Natural Order Myrtace.r.) 
(Synonym Eucalyptus saligna, Sm., var. parvijlora, Deane and Maiden.) 
See vol. i, pp. 84 and 85. 
Since the issue of the above I have described the above tree, long looked 
upon as a variety of E. saligna, under the name of E. Deanei, in the following 
words* :— 
Eucalyptus Deanei, sp. nov. 
Syn. E. saligna, Sm., var. parvijlora, Deane and Maiden, these Proceedings, xxv, 464, 628. See 
also my “ Forest Flora of New South Wales,” Part iv, pp. 84-5 (July, 1903). 
I am of opinion that this form should be removed from E. saligna (to wkich it possesses undoubted 
affinity), primarily on the ground of its broad sucker leaves. For this reason, in part, E. dives, E. melano- 
phloia, and E. Cambagei, are rightly considered distinct from E. amyydalina, E. crebra, and E. goniocalyx 
respectively. 
* Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 1904. 
