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E. corymbosa Sin. The tree which is generally known as the Bloodwood. has been observed by me 

 in all the open forests as far as the waters of the Mitchell, and I have little doubt that it is found round 

 the coasts of Carpentaria. One never sees these gum trees growing in a cluster; they are always scattered. 

 (Tenison- Woods, Proe. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vii. 333.) 



'" Eucalyptus corymbosa Sm. The blossoms of this ' Bloodwood ' are sucked 

 for the honey by the Boulia and Georgina natives'' (Both, X.Q. Ethnography Bull. 

 No. 3). (The flowers of E. pyrophora are large, and especially rich in honey.) 



" The gum of this ' Bloodwood,'" Boulia, ' Bichindi,* is used both as a local and 

 internal application for venereal sores ; in the former case it is used as a powder and 

 dusted on, in the latter it is boiled with water. In the Boulia, Cloncurry, Upper Georgina 

 and Leichhardt-Selwyn districts. "'" (Both, Bull. No. 5). 



A Bloodwood, at 1,400 feet. Brefers flats to ridges. Brairie, 30 miles east of 

 Hughenden (B. H. Cambage, 3958; "'same as 390fi and 3908 :: ). No. 3908 is, 

 however, E. termmalis. 



This species was in flower at several places, including Frewhurst, the lower 

 Flinders, and near Cloncurry, in August, 1913. The flowering period for E. corymbosa 

 is February and March. 



Trees which in habit appear to belong to the same species were flowering in August 

 at Brairie, east of Hughenden (No. 3958), but the fruits are larger, being as much as 2-7 

 cm. long with a diameter up to 2 cm. and the rim is thick, the orifice measuring from 

 about 1 to 1-5 cm. across, the capsule sunk (B. H. Cambage in Proc. Roy. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xlix, p. 410). 



Bloodwood. On flat, bore-water land, scrub country, large Bauhinia Cunning- 

 luimii trees near. Saxby Biver (Miss F. Sulman). Buds, flowers, and fruits. The 

 young buds show abundant bracts and bracteoles. 



This is the tree referred to by Leichhardt as Bloodwood, near the junction of the Lynd and Mitchell 

 Bivers. He writes : — " The bergue was covered with fine bloodwood trees " (p. 292), and " the bloodwood, 

 the apple-gum, the box, and the flooded-gum, grew along the bergue of the river "(p. 296). He also mentions 

 that the bloodwood was in blossom in June (p. 297). He refers to the tree again (p. 370), when on the 

 Nicholson, and on three subsequent occasions (pp. 394, 473, and 529), the last being when near Bort Essington. 

 (E. H. Cambage in Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, 410, 1915.) 



Northern Territory. 



I have already expressed the view that the original description of E. pyrophora 

 was originally drawn up from " Upper Victoria Biver, Mueller," (this would be on the 

 Gregory Expedition of 1856). (Depot Creek, Mueller, specimens I have not seen, and 

 as regards the other specimens quoted by Bentham, see p. 320.) 



Armstrong Biver, near Victoria Biver (collected by B. J. Winters for G. F. Hill, 

 whose No. 459 it bears). This came from a locality not very far from that of the type. 



Between Bull Oak Creek and Crescent Bagoon, " of limited range as seen " 

 ("W. Baldwin Spencer). 



