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DESCRIPTION. 



CDXXXJI. E. teetifiea F.v.M. 



Joum. Linn. Soc., iii, 92 (1859). 



The original description m Latin will be found at p. 95, Part XXV, of the present work, 

 and may be translated as follows : — 



Arboreal, branchlets slender rounded; leaves alternate, thinly coriaceous, rather shortly petiolate, 

 ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, narrowed for a long distance towards the apex, thin-veined, opaque, 

 imperforate, the longitudinal vein closely approximate to the margin; umbels axillary, solitary or in 

 terminal panicles ; pedicels of the calyx angular, equal in length to the tube, but shorter than the common 

 peduncle; operculum conical, acuminate, as long as the semiovate tube . . . Hab. — In grassy valleys 

 of the McArthur River near its source. (N. Holl. Sub-Trop., Mitchell in Hb. Hook.). Flowers August 

 and September. 



A rather tall tree, bark pale ashy, rugose, persisting on the trunk and branches. Leaves 6 inches 

 long, or nearly so, near the base -|— 1-J- inch wide, primary veins spreading, secondary reticulate-anastomising. 

 Flowers on the specimen collected not yet well developed. Peduncles slender, 2-3 lines long. Flower 

 buds 2 lines long, in fuller development perhaps acute. Fruits wanting. The bark is employed by the 

 aboriginals in the construction of their rude shelters. 



In Part XXV. p. 95, I pointed out that Mueller evidently considered E. teetifiea 

 synonymous with E. alba, for he omits it from his second census without comment. 

 Xot withstanding Mueller's decision, I am of opinion that E. teetifiea is specifically 

 distinct from E. alba. Although I have not seen a specimen of it, it is quite obvious 

 to me, that if reliance can be placed in the original description, especially as regards 

 the bark and buds — which appear to me to be totally different from those of E. alba — 

 it is undoubtedly a rough-barked species, and its place seems to be among the Boxes, 

 such as E. Spenceriana or E. Hillii, but its true position cannot be ascertained until 

 the anthers are examined. 



RANGE. 



So far it is only known from the Macarthur River, Northern Territory. 



Leichhardt, in his " Overland Expedition ... to Port Essington," p. 413, 

 says :— " I called this river the ' Macarthur,' in acknowledgment of the liberal support 

 my expedition received from James and William Macarthur oi Camden." The 

 Macarthur River runs (it is presumed, for the whole of its course has not been explored) 

 into the south-western part of the Gulf of Carpentaria. In Joum. Linn. Soc., iii, 92 

 specimens from the Upper Macarthur River (presumably collected either by Leichhardt 



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