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" Box-trees, more on the lowlands than on the hills. Box-bark to branck'ets. 

 Wood reddish-brown towards centre. Rather thick rim of sapwood on small tree. 

 Trees up to 60 feet. On granite at 1,600 feet. Alma-den (R. H. Cambage, No. 3903, 

 with photo.). 



" Bastard Gum-leaf Box." Timber red. Stannary Hills, south-west of Cairns 

 (Dr. T. L. Bancroft). Dr. Bancroft supplied me with a fine series of specimens, leaving 

 nothing to be desired in completeness. 



Ravenswood, Burdekin River, in fruit (8. Johnson, No. 15, 1883). Labelled 

 E. drepanophijUa by Luehmann. 



'■ Dispersed through the scrubby country westward from Gogango." (P. 

 O'Shanesy, of Rockhampton.) As this is much the most southerly locality recorded, 

 it would be desirable to confirm it, although O'Shanesy doubtless got the determination 

 from Mueller. I have suggested {Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlvii, 81, 1913) that perhaps 

 O'Shanesy's tree may be E. Cambageana Maiden. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. " Near to E. patellaris F.v.M." (Original description.) 



For E. jyatellaris see Part XXXIX, p. 257, with figs. 7a-cl, Plate 163. It is a 

 species very little known, evidently also a Box. Only one authenticated specimen is 

 known, a portion of which is figured. It differs from E. leptojMeba in the more 

 strongly marked venation of the leaves and in exsertion of the valves of the fruits. 

 Mueller's statements as to the affinity of the two species, collected by him at nearly 

 the same time, and described by him shortly afterwards, must be respected, and we 

 can say no more until E. patellaris is rediscovered. 



2. With E. crebra F.v.M. 



Bentham (B. Fl.,iii, 221) says that the fragmentary fruiting specimens "appear 

 to me to differ but slightly from E. crebra in the leaves rather thicker and broader, 

 and in the fruits much larger, attaining -4 lines diameter or rather more." Bentham 

 was referring to what he looked upon as a coarse form of E. crebra named E. drepanopliylla , 

 and that form and E. leptoplileha have been thoroughly confused, as already indicated. 

 E. crebra is, however, an Ironbark, and E. leptoplileha a Box. 



I confess I do not see its close affinity at the present time. It is one of the most 

 coarse foliaged of all species of Eucalyptus, and it has very large flowers and fruits for 

 a Box — one with a red timber. Indeed, it seems closer in superficial resemblance of 

 herbarium material to some of the Ironbarks, which has caused the confusion with 

 E. drepanopliylla. E. prui)wsa, a tropical " Box," somewhat resembles it in the fruits. 



