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It would appear that ripe fruits were not seen by the original describer; Bentham 

 apparently first described them. 



The wood is dark-brown, close in the grain and durable. The late Mr. N. Holtze 

 told me that white ants would not touch it in the Northern Territory, where it is common. 



SYNONYM. 



E. polysciadia F.v.M., in J own. Linn. Soc. iii, 98 (1859). 



Mueller, as will be seen, suggested affinity to E. clavigera, and Bentham, who 

 edited Mueller's paper, pronounced them to be conspecific. Following is a translation 

 of the original : — 



A tree, with strung terete branehlets, the younger ones angular. 



Leaves alternate or sub-opposite, somewhat shortly petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, thinly 

 coriaceous, imperforate, undulate at the margin, opaque, glaucescent, prominently penniveined and 

 reticulately veined, the peripheral vein unequally distant from the edge, umbels few or more frequently 

 many-flowered, unequally pedunculate, partly divided or composite near the branchlets, forming a leafless, 

 very copious panicle, pedicels thin, angular, three or four times longer than the calyx, buds pyriform, calyx 

 tube obconical, slightly enlarged at the apex, ocostate. not angled, many times exceeding the patella-like 

 operculum in length, which is not continued into a point, fruits truncate-ovate, somewhat smooth. .... 



Habitat in sunny, stony hills and dry plains near the (Mac) Adam Range (Northern Territory). 

 Flowers in spring. 



A small tree, bark (if I remember correctly), smooth greyish. 



Leaves variable in breadth at the base, often running into the petiole, for the most part 3-4 inches 

 long, f-2 inches broad. Pedicels £-1 inch long. Calyx, with the operculum added, 2|-3 lines long. 

 Operculum smooth, sometimes slightly apiculate. Stamens whitish, at the most 3 lines long. Anthers 

 ovate-oblong. Fruit 4 lines long. Next to E. clavigera. 



I have not seen Mueller's type, but, from the description, E. polysciadia is probably 

 one of the numerous forms connecting E. clavigera and E. grandi folia. 



RANGE. 



Bentham gives Careening Bay, North-west Coast, A. Cunningham (the type); 

 Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; and rocky hills near Macadam Bange, 

 F. Mueller; Albert River, Henne — Macadam Range being in the Northern Territory, 

 while " Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria," may be either Northern Territory or 

 Northern Queensland, and Albert River is Northern Queensland, near the Gulf. 



Mueller in " Eucalyptographia " gives " from the most northern regions of 

 Western Australia along some of the coast tracts of Arnhem's Land to Carpentaria, 

 in sterile country." 



