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It is found on the Dividing Range and its spurs, being especially plentiful 
on the Blue Mountains. It is found west, at least, as far as Mudgee. 
The typical form is found, at least, as far south as Moruya; but trees which 
are considered to belong to this species occur, as already indicated, as far south as 
Gippsland, Victoria. 
It occurs on poor rocky sandstone land generally ; usually an indication of 
poor soil. It is very abundant in the Port Jackson district, and in the Counties of 
Cumberland and Camden, New South Wales, generally. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 124. 
a. Pair of juvenile Laves. 
B. Another pair of juvenile haves, from the same seedling. Note tie differs nt^s in size and shape. 
C. Flowering twig. 
D. Buds. Note the curvature in the shape ; and also the pointed opercula. 
E. An anther (renantherous or kidney-stiaped). 
f. Fruits, egg-shaped. 
G. Fruits. These are from Wingello, N.S.W., and show an extreme form of the urn-shape 
common in this species. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Photographs (two) of trees of E. piperita, which have been barked by cattle at Manly, near 
Sydney.—(R. H. Cambage, photo.) 
For an account of this habit of cattle, see the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales :— 
October, 1903, p. 1002 (J. H. Maiden). 
December, 1903, p. 1156 (J. O. Bulie and V. Jacob); p. 1235 (J. Box). 
January, 1901, p. 28 (W. M. Fleming). 
March, 1904, p. 246 (J. H. Crouch). 
April, 1904, p. 331 (W. Hutchison). 
February, 1905, p. 204 (B. H. Cambage). 
Photograph of Blaxland’s tree, near Katoomba (Kerry, photo.). The tree was E. piperita, but it iR 
now dead. 
Following is the original inscription:— 
This 
Wall and fence has been erected by the 
Hon. J. S. Farnell, Esq., Minister for Lands, 
to preserve this tree marked by 
Blaxland , 
Lawson, 
Wentworth ; 
being the farthest distance reached 
in their first attempt to cross the 
Blue Mountains, in the month of May, 
A.D. 1813. 
