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Capt. S. A. White, speaking of the Macdonnell Eanges, says it is a widely 

 distributed species, growing chiefly on rocky slopes and table-lands (Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 S.A., Vol. xxxviii). 



Western Australia. 



Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald's remarks are : " Tree, 40-80 feet, trunk to 40 feet, diameter 

 1-2 feet, bark persistent on stem and branches, dark-coloured, rough, longitudinally 

 fissured ; timber red, tough and fairly hard ; buds glaucous ; filaments pale yellow. 

 The ' Bloodwood ' of North-west Australia. When in bloom a favourite resort for 

 flying foxes." 



" On the plains and frequently sparsely covering the basaltic hills, Bloodwoods 

 (E. terminalis and E. pyrophora) prevail (with E. microtheca) often forming open forests 

 of fair extent, the species ultimately extending to the coast." (Fitzgerald's Kimberley 

 Report, p. 11.) 



Following are individual specimens which I have seen, and they are all very 

 near the type. 



Roebuck Bay (J. W. 0. Tepper, No. 278). Goody Goody, near Derby (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, No. 301). Also Derby. Base of Mt. House, Kimberley West (W. V. 

 Fitzgerald, No. 970). Broome (W. V. Fitzgerald, No. 131), labelled E. terminalis. 



" A specimen in fruit only from Careening Bay, on the N. W. Coast, A. Cunningham, 

 resembles this (E. terminalis) rather than E. pyrophora." (B.F1. iii, 257.) 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. corymbosa Sm. 



As E. terminalis has been such a misunderstood species, it may be necessary, 

 in order to trace individual specimens which have passed under this name, to refer to 

 other species of the Corymbosee, e.g., E. corymbosa, E. dichromophloia, and E. pyrophora. 

 Mueller wavered a good deal in regard to his own species, and I give some of his 

 observations, arranged in order of date. 



(1) Following is a translation:— 



E. terminalis is a smaller tree (than E. Abergicma and E. corymbosa), with the bark as (Bowman 

 noted) more deeply reddish. At the Paroo Eiver it grows bigger, according to a specimen of Woolls's. 

 [This is E. pyrophora. — J.H.M.] At Port Darwin there occurs a variety with pedicels a line thick; this 

 in most points differs from E. Abergiana, as also from E. corymbosa ; moreover, the leaves are paler, of 

 the same colour on both sides, scarcely spreading horizontally but rather vertically; they give a different 

 appearance to the tree, and the same may be said of E. dichromophloia. E. pyrophora (whose stamens, 

 however, are not fiery-orange as are those of E. miniata and E. phcenicea) is a form of E. terminalis. 

 (Fragm. xi, 42.) 



It will be seen that Mueller's view here is that • E. dichromophloia and 

 E. pyrophora are forms of E. terminalis. 



