378 BILLKTIN DE I/HKUBIKR BOISSIliR (^"i« SÉR.). (10) 



groimd; the post, except for siin cracks, was as sound as when first 

 erected. At the new station there, a tree of this species was burnt down 

 M'hen prepariug for cultivation paddock, it was 9 ft. in diameter, I saw 

 it measured but did not see the height taken, it was said to be 50 feet 

 to the first branch; it had no pipe in it ». 

 (A Crawford, Moona Plains, Walcha in litt). 



QUEENSLAND 



a. Moreton Bay (Allan Cunningham). 

 h. Kockhampton (var. latifoUa Benth.). 



c. Robert Brown's Iter australiense 1802-5. (N" 4737 a Northumber" 

 land-Islauds » and 47.38 « Shoalwater Bay Passage ».) This is var. laii- 

 folia Benth. with plump, oval buds. 



d. Herbert River. 



e. « Endeavour River from the Earl of Mouut Morris, ex herb. Lam- 

 bert », in herb. Cant. With very broad rims to fruits. 



/. Percy Island (Hooker) in herb. Cant. ex herb. Lindl. 

 For some notes on its range in Queensland see Tenison-Woods. {Proc. 

 Limi. Soc. N. S. W. VH, 33 L) 



NEW GUINEA 



Astrolabe Range, this being one of the few species that extends out 

 of Australia. 



AFFINITY 



The dosest affinity of E. tereticornis Sm. is to E. rostrata Schlecht., 

 in fact they run into each other as do so many species in this genus; at 

 the same time it would be highly inconvénient in practice not to sepa- 

 rate them. 



The late Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods expressed the opinion (Froc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. VII, 331), that E. rostrata and E. tereticornis are 

 specifically identical. Baron von Muellcr (Eucalyptographia, under 



E. rostrata), says « indeed from a strictly phytographic view it 



should be considered merely a variety of E. tereticornis, but for con- 

 venience sake and practical pui'poses the specific name may well be 

 retained for so important a tree as this ». The species are undoubtedly 

 closejy related; E. tereticornis usually grows in drier situations than 

 does E. rostrata, while the operculum of E. tereticornis is usually suffi- 

 ciently distinct in appearance from the pinched or beaked appearance 



