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Western Australia. 

 Found at Mount Harris, West Kimberley, among quartzite rocks (W.V.F.'s, No. 

 1,115). A shrubby form, 4-8 feet high, with a smoothish white stem; pedicels clustered 

 on old wood, very slender, about 1 inch long. Fruit ovoid-oblong, about \ inch long, 

 rim thin; valves sunk, included (W. V. Fitzgerald, MSS). 



Near Camp 92, Synnott Range, West Kimberley, west of the preceding locality. 

 Both about 16 deg. 30 minutes. (W. V. Fitzgerald No. 1,272, received as E. clavigera). 



May River (W. V. Fitzgerald No. 506 as E. clavigera). An entirely glabrous, 

 lanceolate leaved form allied to E- papuana, but the fruits are those of E- grandifolia. 

 An intermediate form. 



Northern Territory. 



The type was distributed by the British Museum (J. J. Bennett), in 1876 under 

 the number 4,788, with the locality " Gulf of Carpentaria " or " Islands A. and C, 

 Carpentaria" (Robert Brown, 1802-5). I do not know what these islands are; no 

 doubt a clue will be given from some letter or diary of Robert Brown later on. At 

 pp. 106 to 109 it will be seen that I have given notes* on a number of Brown's collecting 

 places on the South Coast and Northern Queensland, which will help botanists who 

 have Brown's original herbarium labels. 



I have for many years given special attention to the routes and labels of the old 

 collectors. In modern days we are (or should be) most careful in regard to the particulars 

 on the label of a herbarium specimen, but the old collectors frequently obtained their 

 specimens in unnamed localities, and often collected under difficult circumstances. 

 We want precise localities in order that we may obtain additional material for further 

 study and also to distribute to others specimens as close to the type as possible. 



Examination of the notes on this species shows how much I am indebted to Dr. 

 H. I. Jensen and Mr. G. F. Hill, at the time both scientific officers of the Commonwealth 

 Government at Port Darwin. These notes were backed by the best specimens I have 

 ever seen, collected by anybody in the Northern Territory. Botanically, their departure 

 from the Territory is a great loss, and I trust that they will be succeeded by others who 

 will take naturally to this kind of work, for it cannot be done properly unless personal 

 predilection exists in this direction. These gentlemen sent fine, suites of specimens of 

 the Corymbosse also, and Mr. Hill a number of excellent photographs. 



The last word has not been said about E. grandifolia. It is variable in itself, and 

 touches other species, being, in my view, part of a large series. Dr. Jensen thinks he 

 can divide the specimens I have grouped under E. grandifolia under two series, which 

 I call (a) and (b). 



In the following enumeration Dr. Jensen looks upon Nos. 352 and 353 as typical 

 of group (a). This usually goes under the name " Moreton Bay Ash," — bark slightly 

 rough, marked into squares at base of trunk (see E. tesselaris in Part XXXVIII), white 



* See my " Sir Joseph Banks; the Father of Australia." 



