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MR. T. H. MAIDEN, the director of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, N.S.W., published the first part of his great work on the characteristic Australian genus Eucalyptus in 1903, and it has now reached the seventeenth part. There is no other country of the same extent as Australia in which one genus of trees largely predominates throughout and, at the same time, has few extensions beyond. It has been estimated that three-fourths of the forest vegetation of Australia consists of gum trees and bushes, yet the genus is not represented in the native flora of New Zealand, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, and other contiguous countries, including, I believe, New Guinea, though E. alba is a native of Timor.
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HEMSLEY, W. The Gum Trees of Australia 1 . Nature 92, 12 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/092012a0
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