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PLATE 157. 



E. Spenceriana Maiden. 



1. Mature leaf and buds with pointed opercula. Stapleton, Northern Territory. (G. F. Hill, No. 456.) 



2a. Juvenile leaf ; 26, mature leaf ; 2c, fruits; 2d, section of fruit showingjthinness of rim, r and the sunken 

 capsule. " Common Box Gum," Burrundie, Northern Territory. (Dr. H. I. Jensen, No. 346.) 



3a. Mature leaf; 36, fruits. "Black Box," rare. Edith River, near Roper River, Northern Territory. 

 (W. Scott Campbell.) 



E. Cliftoniana W. V. Fitzgerald. 



4a. Mature leaf; 46, fruits. Mount Anderson, near Grant Range, North- west^ Australia. (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, p. 209.) The type. 



E. setosa Schauer. 



5. Portion of twig, being the type in the Vienna Herbarium, with a label in Schauer's handwriting : 



" Eucalyptus setosa Schauer, in Walp. Repert." 



6a. Lower leaves ; 66, upper leaves and inflorescence ; 6c, front and back views of anther. Normanton. 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, North Queensland. (Ivie Murchie, No. 5.) 



7. Fruits. Normanton. R. H. Cambage (No. 3933.) 



PLATE 158. 

 E. setosa Schauer. 



la. Inflorescence (young buds). Note the bracts and bracteoles which are earlyjjdeciduous in Eucalyptus ; 

 16, urceolate unripe fruit ; lc, mature fruits plentifully covered with hairs, and exhibiting irregular 

 cracking of the surface, Id, mature fruit. 



2. Mature fruit. Croydon, North Queensland.. (James Gill.) 



3. Juvenile leaves. Stapleton, Northern Territory. (G. F. Hill.) 



4a. Bud, with pointed operculum, destitute of hairs, both characters due to shrivelling ; 46, expanded 

 flower, showing bract. Brock's Creek, Northern Territory. (CJE. F. Allen's No. 304.) 



5a. Young juvenile leaf, venation well marked, and hairy all over; 56, ripe fruit urceolate and hairy. 

 Woolgni, Northern Territory. (Dr. H. I. Jensen.) 



6. Leaves and fruits. Pine Creek Railway, Northern Territory. (E. J. Dunn.) 



la. Broadly lanceolate thick, mature leaf; 76, large, almost smooth fruit. Tanarni, Northern Territory. 

 (C. E. F. Allen's No. 204.) 



8a. Juvenile leaf; 86 and 8c, mature leaves in various stages; 8d, 8e, different views of a sessile, fully 

 mature fruit. Broome, W.A. (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 123.) 



PLATE 159. 



E. ferruginea Schauer. 



1. Leaves, buds and flowers. Both sides of the leaves are covered with a stellate tomentum. Drawn 

 from portion of the type of E. ferruginea in the Vienna Herbarium, and bearing the following 

 inscription in Schauer's handwriting : " Eucalyptus ferruginea Schauer in Walp. Repert." 



2a. Opposite mature leaf, with short petiole; 26, buds. (Robert Brown, Iter Australiense, 1802-5.) 



3a. Leaf and inflorescence ; 36, front and back sides of anther. (Robert Brown, I. (Isles) of Carpentaria, 

 1802-5. No. 4781 of J. J. Bennett's British Museum distribution'of 1876. Probably from the 

 same collecting as 2a.) 



4a. Mature leaf, sessile. The entire surface, back and front, is covered in a close, stellate tomentum ; 

 46, fruits, which alone of the specimens are smooth. A medium-sized tree at Glencoe Station. 

 Arnhem's Land, Northern Territory. (N. Holtze.) 



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