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Western Australia. 



Benthara quotes Careening and Vansittart Bays, N.W. Coast (Allan Cunningham). 

 I have seen these specimens and they are E. papuana. See p. 194, Part XXXVII. 



I have not seen indubitable E. tessdlaris from Western Australia. 



Northern Territory . 



Bentham quotes " Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria" R. Brown. I have not 

 seen the specimens, and this locality seems too vague to base a record for the Northern 

 Territory on; it might be off the North Queensland coast. 



" Up to a height of 150 feet with a stem diameter of 3 feet" on the Finke River 

 (Rev. H. Kempe). In " Eucalyptographia " as E. tessdlaris, but it is'E. papuana. (Sea 

 p. 196, Part XXXVII.) 



Papua. 



"" E . tessdlaris extends to New Guinea, specimens fully responding to 

 Australian ones having been received from the missionary, Revd. T. Chalmers." 

 ("Eucalyptographia.") I have not seen them. 



Use of the term " Moreton Bay Ash," 



The term " Moreton Bay Ash," which was applied by Mueller to this species 

 in the original description, following the use of the name in " Leichhardt's Overland 

 Expedition" (to Port Essington), is not as exclusively devoted to E. tessdlaris, as was 

 at one time supposed. At least three species go under this name, E. papuana 

 (see p. 196, Part XXXVII). while it is applied even more frequently to E . grandifolia 

 R.Br, (see pp. 188-190). 



The following are Leichhardt's references to " Moreton Bay Ash," and in the 

 course of time collectors who know the various localities will say which species of 

 Moreton Bay Ash Leichhardt saw. Some of the northern ones might have been 

 E. papuanci. 



October 3, 1844. p. 6. — It is the prevailing tree with Bastard Box 

 (probably E. bicolor) and Flooded Gum (probably E . saligna var. pallidivakis). 



At page 11 we have the same remarks. It does not appear to have been again 

 noticed for over two months, when we have — 



December 10, 1844, p. 68. — Growing in great abundarice with Flooded Gum, 

 Erythrina, Tristania, &c. 



December 15, p. 75. — Vegetation from vicinity of Darling Downs common, 

 Moreton Bay Ash very plentiful. 



January 18. 1845, p. 112. — Tributary of the Mackenzie. Moreton Bay Ash 

 very plentiful. 



January 25, p. 121. — Flats with'Moreton Bay Ash and Flooded Gjlia. 



