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SYNONYM. 



E. bigahrita F.v.M. This is referred to under E. alba in Part XXV, 96, where 

 the original description is quoted in Latin, also Bentham's observations concerning it. 



RANGE- 



It is for the most part tropical, and while on the mainland of Australia it extends 

 over the north, from Queensland to the Kimberleys and North-western Australia 

 generally, it descends a little south in Queensland, at least as far as Gladstone. It 

 prefers moist grassy valleys, but is not exclusively confined to such areas. 



Papua. — Port Moresby, Papua (Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer, W. S. Campbell). 



North-western Australia. — C alder River, near junction of Lennard and Barker 

 Rivers ; Isdell River, near Mount Barnett Homestead (W. V. Fitzgerald). A Cabbage 

 Gum of moist, sandy loam overlying sandstone and quartzite, Lennard River, near 

 Lukms Old Station, Carnley and Ord Rivers. Dillcn's Springs (W. V. Fitzgerald). 

 Mi - . W. Y. Fitzgerald speaks of E. platyphyUa in North-west Australia as a " copious 

 oil producer." The abundance of oil in this species is implied by the name " Kaju-puti " 

 (Cajeput), applied to it in Malaysia in common with other trees also rich in oil. Banks 

 of the Upper Drysdale River, near Mount Hann, in sandy soil in basaltic country, 

 forming open savannah with E. Spenceriana, but never far from the river; from thence 

 south-west in the direction of Mount Agnes in low-lying flat country, with the same 

 associate tree. (Kimberleys, C. A. Gardner. No. 1566.) 



Northern Territory. — Pine Creek Railway (E. J. Dunn). Islands of the Gulf 

 of Carpentaria (R. Brown, quoted in B.Fl., hi, 243). 



Queensland.— " Bay of Inlets, Endeavour's River. Banks's specimens are not 

 referred to by Beutham. Native name, ' Kaikur ' (Botany of Cook's First Voyage, 

 Banks and Solander (Britten), p. 38, p. 116)." Above is the label of a specimen. 



Mr. Britten kindly gave me two specimens, one a Banksian one, corresponding 

 l<> the Plate, and a second one practically identical, collected by Brown at Shoalwater 

 Bay in 1802. It is labelled :— 



" Eucalyptus populifolia Banks and Sol. and R. Br. MSS. E. platyphyUa 

 F.M. ex Benth. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown, Sept. 2, 1802.' : 



