46 



Rockkampton, with a spherical gall lj inches in diameter, identical with or 

 closely resembling Brachyscdis pomiformis , see Part XL, p. 318. (J.H.M.) 



" Bloodwood," Stannary Hills. (Dr. T. L. Bancroft.) 



Percy Island, west qi Mt. Armitage. " Small tree, 20 feet " ; Middle Percy Island; 

 low trees growing thickly together, south-east of Middle Percy Island (Henry Tryon). 



Northern Territory. 



" Large Bloodwood. This species grows in the open forest country with E. 

 miniata and E. tetradonta on both Melville Island and Bathurst Island. Examples are 

 found on the gentle slopes and along the little streams falling from the higher country 

 to the main waterways, i.e., the tidal estuaries." Bathurst Island (G. F. Hill, No. 465). 



This is the first record, so far as I am aware, from the Northern Territory, and 

 we must therefore connect this and the North Queensland localities. 



AFFINITIES. 



1 and 2. With E. siderophloia Benth., and E. crebra F.v.M. 



" E. trachyphloia, placed by Bentham between E. siderophloia and E. crebra, is much nearer 

 allied to E. terminalis and E. dichromophloia (as shown in the Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. xi, 43-44), along 

 which species it was placed already in the Joum. Linn. Soc. iii, 90." (" Eucalyptographia," under 

 E. siderophloia). 



In the same work, under E. trachyphloia, he also compares it with E. crebra in 

 the following words : — 



" . . . E. trachyphloia approaches E. crebra and some cognate Ironbark trees, all of which have 

 the stomata isogenous and show a clear line of dehiscence, by which the lid is separated, while the difference 

 of the anthers separate them even sectionally according to Bentham's system. Besides, in E. crebra the 

 lid is not depressed, the fruit is not or less contracted at the summit, and the valves are almost terminal." 



For E. siderophloia turn to Plate 47, Part X of the present work, and for E. crebra 

 to Plate 53, Part XII. But both these are Ironbarks, and it seems inadvisable at this 

 place to stop to make comparisons between Ironbarks and a Bloodwood, the relation- 

 ships being so distant. 



3. With E. tessellaris F.v.M. 



This species shares in some of the characteristics of E. trachyphloia, but irrespective of the 

 discrepancies of the bark differs already in the uniform coloration of the leaves, which latter are also 

 generally longer, are less pointed and show more distinctly the veriation ; moreover, the inflorescence is 

 less expanded ; the lid is larger and separates by a more sharply defined sutural line from the other portion 

 of the calyx; the fruits are also of greater size, though less hard; the fertile seeds are much larger, 

 comparatively more compressed and distinctly margined; but the last-mentioned characteristic is not 

 well expressed in the lithographic illustration of E. tessellaris now offered, figure 9 having been drawn from 

 unripe seeds. (" Eucalyptographia,'' under E. tessellaris.) 



