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Queensland. 

 The following specimens were collected by Leichhardt. 



1. Debillipalah. 



2. Between Myall Creek and Byron's Plains (22nd May, 1843). 



3. . . . hills, scarce, a slender tree of 3 feet (?), with a scaly l^ark 



(4th June, 1843). 



Dr. John Shirley, of Brisbane, has kindly favoured me with the following 

 comments on these three localities (1, 2, 3) :— - 



1. DibiUipah is evidently Didillibah, near Woombye, on our North Coast Line, 

 62 miles north of Brisbane. 



2. Between Myall Creek and Byron's Plains, 22nd May, 1843. Myall Creek is 

 a tributary of the Condamine on the Darling Downs, not far from Oakey, a township 

 on our Western Line, 120 miles from Brisbane. Byron Plains lias been searched for by 

 officers of our Survey Department, but with no result. This was not his only visit 

 to this neighbourhood, as Stuart Kussell (" Genesis of Queensland," p. 360) reports: — 

 " On my return to Cecil Plains (38 miles from Oakey) alone, one afternoon in the middle 

 of 1844 (just before Leichhardt left for Port Essington) I saw a surprising object . . . 

 a veritable chimney-pot hat . . . 'twas Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt' s." 



3. . . . Hills. Where was he 4th June, 1843 ? 



No works to hand v/ill solve this; but he collected mainly on the coastal country 

 north of Brisbane in the early part of 1843, and on the Downs in the latter half. 



4. Leichhardt' s label on another specimen is " 'Gala' tree, very similar to the 

 Bloodwoods in the Sandy Mountain Eange, Archer's Station, 23rd September, 1843." 

 The Rev. Dr. Lang (" Cooksland," p. 83), quotes a letter from Dr. Leichhardt, dated 

 the 4th of the same month from " Archer's Station, Bunya Bunya." I would suggest 

 that Leichhardt named the tree because of the parrots called Galahs {Cacatua 

 roseicapella) which frequent this and other Bloodwoods because of the profusion of 

 honey-yielding flowers. 



Following are some specimens by later collectors : — 



" White Bloodwood, with broadish leaves," South Queensland (Forest Lispector 

 Board). Eight-mile Plains, just south of Brisbane (A. Murphy, J. L. Boorman). 

 Brisbane (J. H.M.). Ipswich-road, near Brisbane, common (C. T. White). 



Chinchilla (E. C. Beasley). (We want more localities on this railway line.) 



" Bastard Bloodwood," Taylor's Range (F. M. Bailey). The forma /rw^tcosff of 

 F. M. Bailey. Common on top of Mount Ngun Ngun, Glass House Mountains (C. T. 

 White, J. Shirley). 



Maryborough (W. H. Simon) " White Bloodwood." " Fairly large trees of 

 40-60 feet, stems 2-4 feet. Bark whitish, flaky, or even of a Stringybark nature. 

 Timber not much esteemed locally." Bundaberg, close to the type locality. (J. L. 

 Boorman, J.H.M.) 



Near the Comet River (P. O'Shanesy). 



