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Following is the best account yet written of the distribution of this species in 

 Queensland : — 



The species of Eucalyptus (Nos. 3C09 and 41G0), which I have referred to in these note* as Red 

 Bloodwood, because of the reddish, rusty colour of its flaky bark, has so far not been definitely identified, 

 though it is a common tree in the siliceous coils of the forests of tropical Queensland, and is probably 

 E. dichromophloia F.v.M. [Since confirmed. — J.H.M.] It usually occurs on ridges and hill slopes but seems 

 to avoid rich alluvial flats, though it was noticed on some gravelly low land. It has a somewhat flaky 

 reddish bark all over the trunk, while the branches are usually smooth and often pale red. The fruits as 

 examined over a very wide area, are urceolate, from about 1/2 to 1-5 cm. long, by 9 mm. to T2 cm. in 

 diameter, with thin rims slightly expanded at the orifice to about 5 to 7 mm. across, and slender pedicels 

 of about 4 to 5 mm. long. The seeds terminate in a wing or samara 4 to 5 mm. long, by 2 to 3 mm. broad. 

 The timber is reddish-brown. Neither flowers nor buds were procured. 



The species was seen at intervals most of the way from Mareeba to Normanton, where it is growing 

 near the artesian bore in the town ; also on the Cretaceous sandstone ridges near Donors Hills on the road 

 to Cloncurrv. Specimens of this species were collected at Prairie, cast of Hughenden, and at Bcgantungan, 

 about 220 miles west of Rockhampton. The species showed practically no variation over the whole of the 

 area in which it was examined, and in some respects agrees with the description of E. terminalis F.v.M., 

 except that the fruits of the latter are described as slightly longer and less urceolate. 



There is apparently no question but that this Red Bloodwood is the species referred to by Leich- 

 hardt as Rusty-gum. On page 21 (Overland Expedition) he writes that when on clayey sandstone country 

 on Dogwood Creek, south of the Dawson River, he found " A new gum-tree with a rusty coloured scaly 

 bark, the texture of which, as well as the seed-vessel and the leaf, resembled bloodwood, but specifically 

 different." Rusty Gum at p. 48 (J.H.M.). He again refers to it when on Stephen's Creek (p. 139), and 

 writes : — " A rather stunted rusty gum grew plentifully on the sandstone ridges." It was again noted 

 (p. 195) near the Cape and Suttor Rivers, and (p. 304) below the junction of the Lynd and Mitchell Rivers, 

 also (p. 355) near the Leichhardt River, and " on sandstone ranges" (p. 460) beyond the Roper River, 

 and last (p. 526) near Port Essington." (R. H. Cambage in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, p. 4:8.) 



I have a label in Leichhardt's handwriting (the specimen seems to have 

 disappeared), " The Bloodwood. Rusty Gum, with reddish scales, Burdekin," which 

 I take to be this species. 



Endeavour River, buds and flowers, calyces Chinese white (W. Pcrsieh). 



Western Australia. 



It occurs from the Murchison River northerly to the Northern Territory. 



"Eucalyptus terminalis. Timber of no use, at any rate not in this district, but 

 it grows in the driest soils." Mt. Narryer, Murchison River (Isaac Tyson per R. Helms). 

 The name was furnished by Mueller or Luehmann. Narrow sparse foliage and fruits, 

 winged seeds, flowers, and red buds. The fruits variable, varying from nearly globular 

 (like Mt. Augustus) to nearly a typical terminalis shape. It seems to be nearer to 

 E. dichromophloia, but is not typical. 



Leaves short and narrow. Fruit a little larger and more globose than the type, 

 but smaller than some Queensland fruits. Seeds very winged. Summit of Mt. Augustus 

 (J. Forrest, 1883). Mt. Augustus (3,480 feet) is in lat. 24° 21" and long. 116-56 E. 

 Labelled E. terminalis by Mueller, but referred to as " a variety with narrow leaves 

 and short fruits," in " Plants indig. around Shark's Bay and its vicinity." Mueller, 

 1883, p. 14. See fig. 14, Plate 165. 

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