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The term " North- West Australia " was used by the naturalists of the early part 

 of the last century to include the coast-line from the North -West Cape to Port Essington 

 (i.e., parts of both Western Australia and the Northern Territory). The specimens 

 collected by the H.M.S. " Beagle " naturalists in the thirties were all labelled " N.-W. 

 Coast " if obtained anywhere west of the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



In the " Flora Australiensis," Bentham, by " North Australia " includes North- 

 Western Australia, as well as the Northern Territory. By the term " North Australia," 

 in his "Census of Australian Plants," Mueller means the same as Bentham, with the 

 addition of an indefinite part of North Queensland. 



I drew attention to the difficulty about the use of the term " North Australia " 

 in an appendix to Ewart and Davies' " Flora of the Northern Territory," pp. 317 and 

 327 (1917), to which I refer my readers. In the present work, under " Range," I have 

 usually been very careful to verify localities and their inclusion in political areas. 

 Sometimes the data are vague. What follows is reduced from my paper on Eucalypts 

 in Ewart and Davies' work, with very few alterations and additions. 



Northern Territory. — The basis of our knowledge of the Eucalypts of the Northern 

 Territory is Mueller's " Monograph of the Eucalypti of Tropical Australia " (Joum. 

 Linn. Soc, iii, 81, 1859), which, however, includes cognizance of some North and South 

 Queensland species. 



The species enumerated for the Territory in the above work are (in the order 

 given) : — 



1. E. rostrata Schlecht. (Leichhardt's Overland Expedition.) 



2. E. brevifolia F.v.M. (Victoria River and Sturt's Creek, Arnheim's Land, 



and Gulf of Carpentaria). (Synonym of E. microtheca F.v.M.) 



3. E. patellaris F.v.M. (Roper River.) 



4. E. tessellaris F.v.M. (Gulf of Carpentaria). 



5. E. polycarpa F.v.M. (E. pyrophora var. polycarpa). 



5. E. terminalis F.v.M. (" Intra-tropical New Holland.") 



6. E. dichromophloia F.v.M. (" Intra-tropical New Holland.") 



7. E. ptychocarpa F.v.M. (Sources of the Rivers Wentworth, Wickham, 



Limmen Bight.) 



8. E. aurantiaca F.v.M. (Elevated tracts near Gulf of Carpentaria). E. 



miniata A. Cunn. is the older name. 



9. E. phasnicea F.v.M. (Victoria River, Arnheim's Land, Gulf of Carpentaria.) 



10. E. latifolia F.v.M. (Roper River.) 



11. E. asper-a F.v.M. (Sandstone tableland, Victoria River and Sturt's Creek, 



&c), 



12. E.ferruginea Schauer (Sandstone tableland). 



13. E. bigalerita F.v.M. (Arnheim's Land). (A synonym of E. alba Reinw.). 



12. E. confertiflora F.v.M. (Victoria River to Gilbert River.) (A synonym 

 of E. ferruginea Schauer.) 



14. E. tetrodonta F.v.M. (Arnhem's Land, Port Essington.) 



