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. RANGE. 



Confined to southern Queensland, so far as we know at present. 



Parish of Boondooma, 70 miles N.-W. of Wondai (Forest Guard Higgins, August, 

 1918). Growing in large quantities in the Chinchilla State Forest, on the Condamine 

 water (the Main Kange runs right through it). Locally known as " Yellow Jack " or 

 " Yellow Jacket " (Forest Ranger G. Singleton, September and October, 1918, through 

 C. T. White). " Bloodwood (Yellow-barked)." Received under this name from Dr. 

 T. L. Bancroft from Hippong, June, 1919. This is Mr, H. S. Bloxsome's property, 

 and I have been receiving specimens and notes from Mr. Bloxsome ever since, in spite 

 of a very severe drought. 



Found on hungry sandstone, and its precise area is not yet defined. It occurs 

 in the Chinchilla State Forest on the west (this to the north includes Hippong, Boondooma 

 is to the east, and is on the Boyne River). A line connecting Chinchilla ( on the Brisbane 

 to Roma Railway), and Mundubbera (west of Gayndah, on the Maryborough to 

 Mundubbera Railway) would run approximately through the centre of the known 

 E. Bloxsomei country, where it is more or less mixed with another yellow-barked Blood- 

 wood (E, Watsoniana), and therefore some care in the bush is necessary. Hippong, 

 Wondai, and Boondooma are on the Burnett waters that empty into the sea at 

 Bundaberg. 



AFFINITIES. 



This new species is interesting, in that it connects E. peltata and E. Watsoniana, 

 species whose phytogenetic relations were not very clearly defined. They exhibit 

 similiarity to the present species in bark and timber, seedlings, and in fruits. For some 

 time I looked upon it as a variety of E. peltata, but for the reasons which follow, I think 

 the interests of science will be better conserved by recording it as a species. 



1. With E. peltata F.v.M. It differs from E. peltata in the much larger pedicellate 

 fruits and in the scarcely peltate juvenile leaves. In the majority of specimens of 

 E. peltata, the buds and fruits are sessile or when pedicellate, only shortly so, while they 

 are constantly pedicellate in E. Bloxsomei. The buds and fruits appear to vary more 

 than in E. peltata ; some are nearly as small as in E. peltata, while others are considerably 

 larger, reminding one of small fruits of E. Watsoniana. 



The seedling of E. Bloxsomei differs from that of E. peltata in having alternate 

 1 eaves after the first pair. In one seedling it is alternate immediately after the cotyledons. 

 There are as many as six pairs on one seedling of E. peltata, and only two on another. 



