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Broome (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 153). Very like the type, except that it has 

 very short petioles and there are brown hairs on the rhachis and very few of any kind 

 on the leaves. Broome is in Roebuck Bay, in 18 deg. S., and is the most southern 

 Western Australian locality known to me for this species. 



Northern Territory. 

 It was collected nearly 115 years ago in the territory, and it has been obtained 

 there but infrequently since. 



" North Coast." Probably " Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria," as in B. Fl. 

 iii, 250 (Robert Brown, 1802-5). Almost glabrous, a few hairs on the rhachis and 

 larger veins. Some of the leaves almost a perfect oval. Note the axillary inflorescence. 

 It is usually large and terminal in E. clavigera. 



" Cabbage-leaf Gum," Cullen Creek, on Overland Telegraph Line. (Prof. 

 Baldwin Spencer.) This is one of the species with very large juvenile leaves. Some 

 of them are a foot long and 7 inches wide. Slightly scabrous. Smooth white bark. 

 Bears a remarkable profusion of inflorescence. 



Queensland. 



Perhaps the following references by Leichhardt to " Apple Gum " in his " Overland 

 Expedition from Moreton Bay to Port Essington," refer to E. clavigera; in cases where 

 they do not, they certainly refer to its allies. Unfortunately many specimens of this 

 expedition were abandoned owing to the hardships encountered, and this applies to the 

 timbers and to some of the herbarium specimens, some of the latter being destroyed in 

 crossing creeks. 



" Another Eucalyptus with a scaly butt like the Moreton Bay Ash, but with smooth 



upper trunk and cordate ovate leaves, which was new to me ; we called it the Apple Gum " (p. 264). 



" On the small flats, the Apple-gum grew with a few scattered Moreton Bay Ash trees." (p. 283). 



" The Apple-gum, which we had missed for some time, again made its appearance, accompanied by 

 another White Gum, with long narrow leaves." (p. 325). 



" The hills were composed of iron-sandstone; their summits were generally very openly timbered 

 with Apple Gum and a new white-barked tree." (p. 337). 



" and the Bloodwood, the Leguminous Ironbark, the Box, the Apple-gum, formed 



patches of open forest," (pp. 374, 388). 



"The Apple-gum, a Bloodwood, and the Poplar-gum (?) grew round our camp; the grasses were 

 tender, but formed distinct tufts; Crinum was plentiful." (p. 473). 



" E. clavigera has recently been brought from the Mitchell and Gilbert Rivers by Mr. Edward Palmer, 

 who observed that also on old trees of 40 feet height the leaves were mostly opposite, that the bark is rough 

 and light brown towards the base of the stem, but otherwise smooth and whitish." 

 (" Eucalyptographia " under E. tesselaris.) 



Following is an excellent account of the tree as it occurs in Queensland : — 



" Eucalyptus clavigera (No. 4,159) is what eastern New South Wales bushmen would be likely to call 

 Apple-gum. Its leaves as seen around Alma-den are sessile, often cordate and opposite, both in the primary 

 and adult forms, and ovate, the hispid midrib and lateral veins standing out in relief on both sides of the 



