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E- terminalis. Most Eucalyptus fruits preserve their shape in drying, and hence this 

 irregular drying in folds, not causing cracks, attracts attention. It so impressed the 

 late Mr. F. M. Bailey that he proposed the variety name camosa for fruits of E. terminalis 

 (always unripe). 



SUPPOSED VARIETY. 



Var. camosa F. M. Bailey, in Queensland Agric. Joum. xv, 898, June, 1905. 



This is the original description i— 



The same remarks {e.g., that it might perhaps be given specific rank if full material were available) 

 apply to another Eucalypt, a variety of Bloodwood, of wliich the fruits are of a more fleshy nature than 

 any of the gums with which I am acquainted. I purpose, when specimens are available for the purpose, 

 describing it under the name E. terminalis var. camosa. My first specimen I obtained about twenty-five 

 years ago on the Darling Downs (branchlets with unripe fruit), after which I received specimens with 

 unripe fruit from Mr. Edgar, Kockhampton, and recently from Mr. Pagan, from trees growing near the 

 Central Railway Line, 74 miles from Roekhampton. The fruits on these were also unripe. 



I have seen one of Mr. Bailey's specimens (One-tree Hill, near Gowrie, Darling 

 Downs, Queensland). The supposed variety being merely an unripe condition of the 

 normal fruit, cannot stand. 



RANGE. 



Mueller, in the original description, gives the vague locality, " In meadows 

 and dry fertile plains of intra-tropical Australia." In the absence of such information 

 in the original description, where we have a right to expect it, we must seek it elsewhere. 

 It is doubtless to be obtained in the " Flora Australiensis," iii, 257. It is well known that 

 Mueller sent his material to Bentham, to enable him to prepare the work in question, 

 and " Arnhem's Land and Gulf of Carpentaria, Mueller,", represent the type. In other 

 words, it originally came from the Northern Territory including (probably) the western 

 shore of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Bentham adds the following localities from Queensland. " Albany Island, 

 W. Hill ; Curtis and Gloucester Islands, W. Henne ; Edgecombe Bay and Rock- 

 hampton, Dallachy, also Boioman ; Endeavour River, Banks and Solander." 



In Mueller's First Census he confined E. terminalis to " North Australia " 

 (meaning Northern Territory, in this case), South Australia and Queensland. In the 

 Second Census he added Western Australia and New South Wales. 



Its range, so far as I know, is in the drier parts of all the mainland States, except 

 Victoria and South Australia. As regards the latter State, it has already been recorded 

 from near its northern boundary. It occurs in the northern half of the continent; 

 in New South Wales as far south as the Gwydir River, practically from south to north 



