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Mr. R. T. Baker quotes Mr. W. Baeuerlen as using the names “Red Malice ” 
and “ Brown Mallee ” because of the appearance of the bark, hut the use of the 
former name at least, being in use for many years for another species (E. oleosa, 
F.v.M.) should be discouraged. 
Botanical Nam Q,—Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 34) ; 
acacioides, from the word Acacia, and the Greek oidos, like, it having reminded 
Cunningham of the general appearance of certain Acacias (Wattles). The name is 
not specially appropriate. 
SyilOliyniS.— E. viridis, R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Sue. N.S.W., xxv, 316 
(1900); E. odorata, Behr, var. linearis, Maiden, Proc. Uoy. Soc. S.A., xxvii, 
241 (1903). 
Timber.—I have already stated that the trunk has a considerable proportion 
of pale-coloured sap-wood, the mature wood being of a deep reddish-brown. 
If it is used for any specific purpose it must be quite local, as I could never 
learn of any special use to which it was put. 
Mr. L. Abrahams, of Cobar, writes : “ The emu makes its nest amongst these 
shrubby trees.” 
Size. —Usually a tall, erect shrub, it may attain a maximum height of 
30 feet. I have not seen the trunk more than 9 inches in diameter. 
Habitat. —In my “ Critical Revision of the genus Eucalyptus,” Vol. ii.. 
Part 1, p. 46, I predicted that it might be found in Queensland. It has since been 
discovered in that State, as will be seen below. It is, however, mainly developed in 
New South Wales, chiefly in the western plains, usually on rather dry, stony ridges 
of moderate elevation. 
It is represented from the following places in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney :— 
New South Wales. 
Wyalong (R. H. Cambage; District Eorester Osborne). 
Palestlian, Lake Cudgellico (Miss Clements); Bundaburra, between Eifield 
and Condobolin (P. J. Iloldsworth); Condobolin (R. Kidston). 
Dubbo and Minore (J. L. Boorman) ; 12 miles north of Dubbo (H. Deane) ; 
Peak Hill (J. L. Boorman); Dubbo-Gilgandra Road (W. Forsyth); east of Bidden 
Road, Gilgandra (R. II. Cambage). 
Cobar, on red ironstone hills (W. Woolls, E. Betche, Archdeacon E. E. 
Haviland, L. Abrahams, J. L. Boorman); Nymagee (J. Wharton Cox) ; Boppy 
Mountain (J. L. Boorman); Mount Hope (J. L. Boormau); Nyngan (Forester John 
Martin, Forest Guard E. F. Rogers); Parish of Kickabel, County Ewenmar, east of 
