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I liave seen si)ecimens of the following, named hy Mueller, and chiefly in 

 the Melbourne and Calcutta herbaria : — 



S.E. Carpentaria, "Box tree," in fruit-only (E. Palmer); Sources of the 

 Soutli Coen River, York Peninsula, in fruit (Stephen Johnson) ; " North Coast," 

 R. Br., 1802-5, not in fruit, pale-coloured operculum ; Endeavour River, N. 

 Holland, Lieutenant, King (afterwards Admiral P. P. King) ex herb. Lambert in 

 herb. Cant.; Palmer River, in fruit only (collector?); Daintree River (Pitzalan), 

 in flower only; Cleveland Bay (Townsville), in bud, pale-coloured operculum 

 (S. Johnson) ; Edgecumhe (? Range), near Port Denison, a poor stunted tree, 20 

 feet high (Dallachy) ; Port Denison, in flower (Fitzalan) ; Ravenswood, Burdekin 

 River, in fruit (S. Johnson) ; Mt. Elliot (S.W. of BoAvling Green Bay), in 

 flower only (Fitzalan) ; Stuart River (Nanaugo District), with the ordinary sub- 

 cylindrical, and with more hemispherical fi'uits (S. Johnson). 



AFFINITIES. 



E. dre.pannphyUa differs from E. crehra chiefly in the large flowers, and in the larger, harder, and 

 more ylobidar fruit. Prom E. leptopMeba it is chiefly distinguished by the leaves not so thick, with more 

 oblique veins. It is not impossible, liowever, that E. melanophloia, dreijanophylla, trachyphloia, leptophleba, 

 and orebra, all of them Tronbarks, may be but forms of one species. (B.Fl. iii, 221.) 



In the specimens I have seen, the leaves of E. drepanophylla are thicker, if 

 anythin?, rather than " not so thick " as those of E. leptophleba ; indeed, I do not 

 think they differ at all. Almost without exception, the fruits of E. drepanophylla, 

 determined by Mueller himself, are sub-cylindrical. The words "more globular" 

 seem to me inappropriate in the connection in which they are used. 



E. melanophloia, trachyphloia (a Blood wood), and crehra are good species, 

 and certainly different. E. leptophleba (clrepanophylhC) is again different, tliough 

 closest to crehra of the species mentioned. 



E. drepanophylla, which may be perhaps a mere variety of the imperfectly-known E. leptophleba, is 

 still nearer to E. siderophloia than E. crebra ; it is generally of more stunted growth ; its leaves are 

 narrower, of a paler hue, more opaque, usually also more curved and provided with stomata of almost equal 

 number on either page ; the flower-stalks are less angular and rather thinner ; the lid is blunter, and only 

 of about the same -length as that of the calyx-tube ; the filaments show a somewhat intleeted curvature 

 while in bud; the style is shorter, and bears a slightly broader stigma. — (Under E. siderophloia, in 

 Mueller's " Eucalyptographia.") 



