106 



W. V. Fitzgerald says (MSB.): "Filaments white or occasionally tinged with 

 pink, and not scarlet (vide " Eucalyptographia ")." 



G. F. Hill's specimens confirm Fitzgerald's remarks. His filaments are cream- 

 coloured and crimson. C. E. F. Allen later recorded "crimson." It is obvious that 

 we have here a confusion between scarlet and crimson, as is not infrequently the case. 

 The colour, other than cream, is pink to crimson. 



RANGE. 



North Western Australia and Northern Territory. — Mueller (original description) 

 found it in " Dry river beds and rocky streams at the sources of the Wentworth, 

 Wickham, and Limmen Bight Rivers." 



Bentham adds, Melville Island, Fraser. (Fraser was never there, although 

 specimens may have passed through his hands. ) Port Essington, Gilbert. 



Later on Mueller recorded it from a number of localities in North Western 

 Australia, so that we have it for the most northerly portion of Australia, as far east 

 as the Gulf of Carpentaria. 



Western Australia'. 



The following record was made by Joseph Bradshaw's Expedition to the Regent's 

 River, William Tucker Allen being botanical collector. " Welcome Creek, Roe's and 

 Drysdale Rivers, chiefly on the banks of tributaries." Mueller in Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xvi, 469 (1891). 



Then W. Y. Fitzgerald noted, from his own collection in the Kimberley district, 

 :< Isdell and Chamley Rivers; AVoollybutt and Synnott Creeks," adding that it is 

 always found in wet, boggy spots. On another occasion he says " chiefly growing 

 along the banks of water-courses, but occasionally in rocky localities." His Woollybutt 

 Creek specimen, near Phillips' Range, is No. 950. 



Northern Territory. 



Liverpool River (Gulliver in Herb. Melb.). Has a large lanceolate leaf. 



" Bark like E. terminalis to topmost branches (i.e., like a Bloodwood, J.H.M.). 

 Trunk 15 inches diameter. Spreading, somewhat stunted growth, 28 feet high; only 

 one tree seen." Side of small ravine. Bathurst Island (G. F. Hill, No. 467). 



Bud collected by Leichhardt on his Overland Journey to Port Essington 

 (Herb. Paris). 



" Large tree, crimson flowers." Pine Creek (C. E. F. Allen, No. 116). 



Powell's Creek (Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer). 



