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texture between the ordinary Bloodwood barks and those " micaceous " barks of 

 E, miniata and E. phoenicea. The difference in colour of the bark, disclosing the 

 " inner red portion " is noted in the specific name. 



The fruit, according to the original description, may be urceolate, ovate or sub- 

 globose, 4-6 lines long and slightly contracted. Some fruits from the Eoper Eiver, 

 a type locality, may be purplish, ovate to urceolate, rim thin, reminding one of a bird's 

 egg. Such fruits, which are dainty and ornamental in appearance, with very slender 

 pedicels, have been received from as far south as Rockhampton. 



On the other hand, particularly in Queensland, the fruits of this species may be 

 as large and as urceolate as ever seen in E. corymboaa {e.g., Plate 165, figs. 12 and 11), 

 but they are always thin-walled, smooth, and with a not easily defined " daintiness " 

 which seems to differentiate them from the fruits of all other species. 



RANGE. 



The original description merely says " less fertile or sterile parts of Australia, 

 everywhere intra-tropical. " We know, however, that Mueller got his specimens on the 

 Gregory Expedition of 1856, and on turning to the " Flora Australiensis " (iii, 257) we 

 find that they were collected at the Abel Tasman, McArthur (Macarthur) and Roper 

 Rivers, in the Northern Territory. These three rivers flow into the west coast of 

 the Gulf of Carpentaria, the Roper being the most northerly, followed by the 

 Macarthur and the Abel Tasman. 



The Fitzmaurice River, where Mueller also collected it, is also in the Northern 

 Territory, but flows into Cambridge Gulf, near the Western Australian boundary. 



Bentham adds "Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R.Brown." These are 

 probably the group opposite the Macarthur River. 



We have traced it, with broad gaps, over the north of Australia, mostly at the 

 tropic, both in Queensland (Eidsvold and Rockhampton) and Western Australia 

 (Murchison River), North Australia and Northern Queensland. Its range under each 

 State is separately stated. 



Northern Territory. 



The type comes from the Territory, and it has already been found east (rivers 

 flowing into the Gulf of Carpentaria) and west (Fitzmaurice River) of the northern 

 part of it. It is also not rare in the MaccLonnell Range and the surrounding country. 

 As time goes on, we shall find additional localities. 



