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Queensland. 



Following are some localities of specimens I have seen, and with the greater 

 settlement in Queensland, as compared with the remainder of the tropics, I look for 

 additional localities, in order that its range may be better defined. 



Sources of the South Coen River (Stephen Johnson, in Melbourne Herbarium). 

 This is, of course, in the Cape York Peninsula, and the most northern Queensland 

 locality recorded. 



Stewart River (Stephen Johnson). 



This is the species referred to by Leichhardt as Stringybark, and noted at various 

 points from the upper Lynd right to the settlement at Port Essington. 



Walsh River (correspondent of F. M. Bailey). Mitchell, Gilbert, and Norman 

 Rivers (E. Palmer). 



" Messmate," " Fibrous or stringybark on trunk and large branches, 40-50 feet." 

 Little River, between Gilbert River and Croydon (R. H. Cambage, No. 4,005). 



It was first noticed between the twenty-second and twenty-fourth mile posts 

 from Alma-den, and again towards the fifty-first mile post. It was subsequently seen 

 at various points along the Gilbert River, at the changing station on the Little River, 

 and around Normanton. (R. H. Cambage in Proe. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xlix, 413, 1915.) 



Referring to Leichhardt's " Overland Expedition to Port Essington," at p. 279 

 (op. cit.), he speaks of the koolimans of the natives being " very large, almost like small 

 boats, and (were) made of the inner layer of the bark of the Stringybark tree." At p. 285, 

 ' The Stringybark grew to a fine size on the hills, and would yield, together with 

 Ironbark, and the Drooping Tea-tree, the necessary timber for building." At p. 291, 

 " All along the Lynd we had found the gimyas of the natives made of large sheets of 

 Stringybark, not, however, supported by forked poles, but bent, and both ends of the sheet 

 stuck in the ground." They found them frequently afterwards during the journey 

 round the Gulf. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. odontocarpa F.v.M. 



"... this, however, I found only of shrubby growth, its leaves much 

 narrower, the calyces very considerably smaller on shorter and thinner stalklets, the 

 fruit also of much less size, its minute teeth protruding beyond the outward not 

 decurrent rim.*' (" Eucalyptographia," under E. tetrodonta). See also under E. 

 odontocarpa at p. 145. 



