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At p. 304, " We travelled . . . over a succession of plains separated by 

 belts of forest, consisting of Bloodwood, Box, Apple Gum, and Rusty Gum." This 

 was near the Lynd River. 



At p. 355, " Some of the ridges were openly timbered with a rather stunted 

 White Gum tree, and were well grassed, but the grass was wiry and stiff. At the end 

 of our stage, about 16 miles distant from our last camp, we crossed some Rusty Gum 

 forest . . ." 



At p. 356, " In a patch of Rusty Gum forest we found Acacia equisetifolia 

 and the dwarf Grevillea of the Upper Lynd in blossom. The thyrsi of scarlet flowers 

 of the latter were particularly beautiful." Here they were a little south of the Albert 

 River of Captain Lort Stokes. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. latifolia F.v.M. 



Possibly a variety or state of some species allied to E. latifolia without the peltate 

 leaves. The specimens are very imperfect. (B.F1. iii, 254.) 



In many of its characteristics, especially the form of its fruits, E. peltata approaches to E. latifolia, 

 but the latter is smooth-barked, its leaves are partly almost opposite and always attenuated, with an acute 

 base into their stalk, the lateral veins less prominent, the reticulation of the veinlets also less visible, while the 

 marginal vein is almost confluent with the edge of the leaves, the stalklets of the flowers are of conspicuous 

 length, the lid is single and separates by a less regularly marked dehiscence, and the brownish roughness 

 of the branchlets and foliage is absent, in which latter respects an approach of E. peltata to E. ferrugmea, 

 E. aspera, E. setosa, and E. davigera is established. (" Eucalyptographia " under E. peltata.) 



The mistake that E. peltata has peltate leaves in the full-grown state also misled 

 L. Diels, who, in his " Jugendformen und Blutenreife," says that, except in these 

 (assumed) adult leaves, " otherwise it shows in many characters, especially in the 

 very important shape of the fruit, great approach to E. latifolia, It is more than 

 probable that the two species are closely connected ; indeed, also in their geographical 

 distribution they belong to the same region, i.e., North-eastern Australia. Unfortunately 

 the ontogeny of E. latifolia is not perfectly known. I could nowhere find a description 

 of the juvenile leaves." 



For E. latifolia, see Plate 168, Part XLI, where it will be seen that the two species 

 are not closely allied. The juvenile leaves of E. latifolia are larger, glabrous, and not 

 peltate. The mature leaves are broad. The inflorescence is very different. The 

 flowers are more numerous and, like the fruits, have comparatively long pedicels. The 

 fruits are, for the most part, larger, and have thicker walls; while after the failing of the 

 outer strips of bark the inner bark is yellowish. The bark is not yellowish as a whole, 

 and the timber is red. E. peltata is a Queensland species, while E. latifolia belongs to 

 the Northern Territory. 



