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Queensland. 



E. rostrata is extensively distributed in Queensland in situations approximately 

 identical with those under which it occurs in New South Wales. 



Following are some Queensland localities going roughly south to north. : — 



Texas (J. L. Boorman). " River Gum," Buds tending to ovoid. Cunnamulla 

 (F. H. Perkins). Bulloo River (J. F. Bailey). Buds tending to ovoid, others nearly 

 normal. Charleville (E. B. Atkins). Rockhampton (T. J. Byerley, R. Simmons). 

 Buds tending to ovoid. Gadwall, Alpha (G. T. Wood). 



Bogantungan, 220 miles west of Rockhampton, at 1,100 feet. Buds a little 

 conical (R. H. Cambage, No. 3,972). 



Mirtna Station, via Charters Towers (Miss Zara Clark). 



In granite creek at 1,550 feet. Common along many creeks here. Alma-den, 

 between Cairns and Croydon, North Queensland (R. H. Cambage, No. 3,875). 



"Blue Gum." ChiUagoe (E. Doran). Croydon (James Gill). 



Noticed near Forsayth, but was not seen afterwards on either the Etheridge 

 River, the Gilbert, or the lower Flinders (R. H. Cambage). Mitchell River (E. Palmer). 



It is a common tree on the banks of many of the rivers and large creeks of North 

 Queensland. It is often associated with Casuarina Cunninghamiana (River Oak), and 

 while usually not able to ascend so far, can descend much further down the streams, 

 and this attribute or quality has enabled it to cross the continent from north to south 

 and from east to west (R. H. Cambage). 



AFFINITIES. 



l. With E. teretieornis Sm. 



" . . . . is, as observed by F. Mueller, very closely allied to E. teretieornis .... From 

 E. teretieornis it is chiefly distinguished by the operculum. It has also usually smaller flowers and fruits." 

 (B. Fl. iii, 240). 



" . . . . Still instances occur when it merges completely into E. teretieornis ; indeed from a 

 strictly phytographic view it should be considered merely a variety of that species, but for convenience 

 sake and practical purposes the specific name may well be retained for so important a tree as this. 



" . . . . while E. teretieornis replaces it in many coast-tracts of Queensland, New South Wales 

 and Gippsland. The only differences of E. teretieornis consist of the generally more elongated and often 

 blunter lid of the calyx, very gradually tapering upwards, constituting a narrow cone, and in the perhaps 

 rather more protruding summit of the fruit; the filaments are also often straight while in bud, as in 

 E. cornuta and its allies, through not being forced to inflexion within the long cavity of the lid." 

 (Eucalyptographia, under E. rostrata]. 



