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In the " Second Census," E. leptophleba is suppressed, but E. drepanophylla is 

 recognised. 



" E. drepanophylla includes as a variety E. leptojrfileba." (J. G. Luehmann, 

 in Proc. A.A.A.S., 530, 1898.) 



This cannot be, as E. leptophleba is the older name, but it is additional 

 testimony that the species are the same. 



E. leptophleba, F.v.M., and E. drepanophylla, F.v.M., are imperfectly- 

 known species, but there seems no doubt at all that one is a synonym of the other, 

 and therefore E. leptophleba, the older name, must stand. E. drepanophylla is more 

 fully described, and it is not necessary to redescribe it until more field knowledge 

 is available This is work for Queensland botanists, and suites of specimens from 

 various localities should be collected, and juvenile leaves should be especially 

 remembered, since at present these are unknown. 



RANGE. 



E. leptophleba is found in Queensland, though I believe it may occur in New 

 South Wales. The type comes from the Gilbert River. 



The following are specimens referred to E. leptophleba by Mueller himself : — 



(a) Trinity Bay (Cairns). Fruit rather more spherical than those of 



drepanophylla usually are. 



(b) In bud, from Rockingham Bay (Dallachy). 



(c) A specimen of small conoid fruits, stated to have been collected by 

 O'Shanesy between the Dawson and Mackenzie Rivers, differing from any other 

 fruits, I have seen labelled by Mueller either leptophleba or drepanophylla. 



I doubt the correctness of the naming of this specimen. 



Bentham gives the following localities and vernacular names for E. 

 drepanophylla : — 



N. Australia. — N.W. coast, A. Cunningham. 



Queensland. — E. coast (A. Cunningham) ; Keppel Bay and Shoahvater Bay (R. Brown) ; Burdekin 

 Expedition (Fitzalan) ; Port Denison, '■' Ironbark-tree" (Fitzalan, Dallachy) ; Bowen River, " Ironbark," 

 (Bowman). 



The specimens from the N.W. coast that I have seen are in young fruit (the 

 style still persistent), and with a few stamens on one flower. In my view, they are 

 doubtful. 



