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and its sessile., opposite, cordate leaves. The bark of this tree is rough and somewhat scaly, and a note 

 made when near one of the trees reads : — ' Bark between that of an Angophora and Eucalyptus robusta '." 

 (R. H. Cambage, Proc. Roy. Soc. A T .<S'.TF. xlix, 126, 1915, speaking of the North Queensland tree.) 



" Lid (operculum) rather tearing off irregularly and tardilv than dropping suddenly and completely 

 by a clear sutural dehiscence, remaining often for a while attached during the expansion of the flowers to 

 one side of the orifice of the calyx-tube, as in other Bloodwood trees." (Mueller, " Eucalyptographia.'') 



The fruit of E. setosa is not happily drawn in the " Eucalyptographia." "Without 

 being actually inaccurate, it is not characteristic of that species, rather representing 

 E.ferruginea. 



For a note on the reflex lip of the fruit, see the reference to the E\rooine and 

 Strelley River specimens, this page ; for a note on the markedly urceolate shape of a 

 very large fruit, see the Arnhem Land reference at page 212. 



SYNONYM. 



E. hispid a E.Br. MSS, See below, page 212. 



RANGE. 



The type was collected by Ferdinand Bauer when he was with Robert Brown 

 amongst the islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



It has since been ascertained that it occurs in north Western Australia, the 

 Northern Territory, and Northern Queensland, i.e., in the Australian tropics generally, 

 but it seems to prefer situations hot more than 100 miles from the sea. 



Western Australia. 



1. Broome (W. V. Fitzgerald, April, 1905, and July, 1906). 



2. " Low Mallee-like Gum, bark adherent." Strelley River, North- West 

 Australia (Dr. J. B. Cleland, 1908). 



These are very similar ; the Broome ones are drawn at tig. S, Plate 158. The 

 differences from other specimens of the species known to me are, only the sucker leaves 

 hirsute. In E. setosa the whole plant seems to be usually hirsute. In these specimens 

 the leaves are proportionately narrower than in E. setosa. The fruit is more sessile and 

 the mouth is wider, more reflexed. It is 1 inch long. Of course, we must bear in mind 

 that the available material in herbaria of E. setosa for the institution of comparisons is 

 not very great. 



It i^ represented by the following additional specimens in the National Herbarium, 

 Sydney. 



Lennard River; Mount Anderson (all W. V. Fitzgerald); south of Fimoy River 

 (Mayo Logue). 



