DESCRIPTION. 



CCXVI. E. terminalis F.v.M. 



Journ. Linn. Soc. iii, 89 (1859). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 



A tree, the branches somewhat terete, rigid, leaves alternate, somewhat thick, falcate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, opaque, faintly penniveined, imperforate, the same colour on both sides, with moderate 

 petioles, the peripheral vein obscure, close to the margin, umbels with 3-6 flowers, crowded together in 

 broad terminal panicles, the partial peduncles slightly longer than the pedicels and terete like them, the 

 fruit large, truncate-ovate, sub-campanulate ex-angular, ecostate, four-celled, smooth at the vertex, 

 almost twice as long as the pedicels, the valves nearly touching the orifice, seeds with long wings. 



Found in meadows and dry fertile plains of intra-tropical Australia, not rare. 



A medium-sized or large tree. The bark dark fuscous, persistent, wrinkled and scaly, brown or 

 ferruginous within, coining away somewhat tardily in irregular flakes. Leaves 5-7 inches long at most, 

 below, about an inch broad or a little narrower. Fruits slightly longer than an inch, scarcely contracted at 

 the mouth. [The italics mine. — J.H.M.] 



Bentham (B.F1. iii, 257) redescribed it as follows :— 



A tree, very closely allied to E. corymbosa, and often scarcely to be distinguished from it in the 

 dried specimens. It is generally of a paler or more glaucous colour, the leaves usually narrower with less 

 conspicuous veins, the operculum very obtuse, hemispherical and not showing the junction with the 

 calyx -tube till just as it is detached, the fruit narrower, more oblong and less urceolate, that is, contracted 

 at the orifice without so distinct a neck ; it varies in size from about 7 lines to nearly 1 inch long. Seeds 

 with a rather long wing. 



Mueller does not figure this species in " Eucalyptographia," though he retains 

 the name in the 1st and 2nd editions of his " Census of Australian Plants." 



Native names: On the Cloncurry, " Narm-boon-bong " ; on the Gilbert, 

 "Kulcha" (E. Palmer). 



Often the bark is so pale-coloured and so comparatively smooth, that it is called 

 "White-stemmed Gum-tree" (Baldwin Spencer, "Narrative, Horn Expedition," 

 p. 125, speaking of the southern part of the Northern Territory), while " Smooth- 

 stemmed Bloodwood" is a common appellation round Darwin. Captain S. A. White's 

 photo, in Plate XXXIII (Vol. xxxviii, Roy. Soc. S.A.) shows it to resemble a White 

 Cum in general appearance in the Macdonnell Ranges. 



Mr. R. H. Cambage says that its wood is deep red in colour, and that it is regarded 

 as the best of the Bloodwood timbers around Alma-den, North Queensland. 



