781 NOTES ON THE NATIVE FLORA OF NEW SOUTH WALES. By R. H. Cambage. Part ii. Western Slopes of New England. (Plates xxii., xxiv., and xxv.) When passing through Narrabri and Moree to Inverell and Tingha in October, 1903, notes were kept of the conspicuous members of the flora distributed over these districts. These notes have since been amplified from the examination of speci-mens collected in the last-named localities, and are now made available as a contribution to the botanical survey of this State. The notes referring to the country extending from Boggabri to Warialda were taken from the train, consequently only the larger and well known trees are mentioned, and it must not be inferred that any particular species is absent from the district though unnoticed by me. This portion of the area traversed consists for the most part of black soil plains, luxuriant with the flowers of herbs and grasses in a good season, but one long stretch of bare ground, often dust, during a drought. Without having had some experience of areas such as our western and north-western plains, no one can conceive what great quantities of charming blooms are produced under favourable circumstances, or what desolation exists when the conditions are reversed. From Boggabri to Narrabri is a distance north-westerly of 33 miles, the elevation above sea-level being 823 feet at the former and about 700 feet^at the latter place. The following Eucalypts were noticed near the railway line : — E. j)02yulifolia, Hook. (Bimble or Shiny-leaved Box), E. melanophloia, F.v.M. (Silver-leaved Ironbark), E. Woollsiana, R. T. Baker (Narrow-leaved Box), E. tereticornis, Sm., y ?ii\ dealbata, Deane & Maiden (Gum), E. 51
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