506 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, II., 



Speaking of E. hotryoides, Mueller ("Eucalyptographia") says: 

 ** Probably it does not extend into Queensland, as the Blue Gum- 

 tree mentioned from thence is referable to a species of the series 

 of Leiophloiae, probably E. saligna." I have not seen E. hotryoides 

 from Queensland, but am far from saying that it will not be 

 found in exposed south coast localities. 



Following is the history of the Brisbane Water, N.S.W., 

 specimens which have caused such confusion through the locality 

 being mistaken for Brisbane, Queensland. 



The following specimens are in Herb. Kew, where I examined 

 them : — 



{a) "No.91. Sydney woods," labelled " 100-160 ft., Brisbane 

 River* Gum, W. Macarthur, 1854" (for the Paris Exhibition, 

 1855). 



ih) "No. 18. Blue Gum." This specimen bears the further 

 label, " Corresponding with wood collection in Museum Coll. 

 by Macarthur and others, S. district, N. S. Wales, London 

 Exhibition, '62." 



Sir William Macarthur's catalogue ('Catal. of N.S.W., (fee. 

 Timbers at the Paris Exhibition, 1855') gives the following 

 additional information — "Aboriginal name at lllawarra ' Cou- 

 ranga'; the Blue Gum of the Coast districts, particularly at 

 Brisbane Water. Diameter 40-72 inches, height 100-160 ft. A 

 magnificent timber for ship-building, and a favourite wood for 

 house-carpentry; not nearl}^ so hard or heavy, and not so 

 durable as the Ironbarks." 



Both these herbarium specimens are in bud only, and refer to 

 the same samples, No. 18 being the number of the same timber 

 specimen (London Exhibition, 1862) which at the Paris Exhibi- 

 tion of 1855 bore the number 91. 



They were labelled E. hotryoides by Bentham and referred to 

 in the ' Flora Australiensis ' under that species. 



♦ Brisbane Water is at the mouth of the Hawkesbury River, about 50 

 miles north of Sydney. The "Brisbane River" is, of course, in Queensland. 

 The label is in Sir William Macarthur's handwriting, and is a slip of 

 the pen for " Brisbane Water." 



