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RANGE. 



It is only known from Queensland. The type comes from the Gilbert River, 

 which flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria, near its south-eastern corner. Its known 

 localities near are from Cape York, along the eastern side of the Gulf of Carpentaria, and 

 southerly to the Burdekin River, apparently at no very great distance from the sea. 

 Its identity has only recently been established, and therefore the attention of collectors 

 is invited to it. 



" E. redunca is bounding east and west an extensive longitudinal belt of 

 E. leptophleba, as shown in an excellent map, issued recently with an important document 

 by the W.A. Forest Board.'.' (" Eucalyptographia," under E. redunca.) This is 

 probably the " Map of part of the Colony of Western Australia showing timber forests 

 of . . . ." (six principal timbers), published in 1880. It is probably a misprint 

 for loxophleba (foecunda), the York Gum — E. leptophleba not occurring in Western 

 Australia. The correction is published as the mistake is somewhat serious, because 

 E. leptophleba is so little known, even yet.] 



Following are some specimens I have authenticated, or which are in the National 

 Herbarium, Sydney-: — 



Sources of the South Coen River, York Peninsula, in fruit (Stephen Johnson). 

 (Labelled drepanophylla by F.v.M.) Figured as E. leptophleba at fig. 3, Plate 48, 

 Part X. 



' Endeavour River, N. Holland, Lieutenant King " (afterwards Admiral P. P. 

 King), ex herb. Lambert in herb. Cant. Ripe fruits figured as E. leptophleba, fig. 5, 

 Pate 48. 



Palmer River, in fruit only (? Th. Gulliver). (Referred to as E. drepanophylla 

 in " Eucalyptographia," under E. crebra. 



Daintree River (Fitzalan), in flower only. Labelled E. drepanophylla by Mueller. 



" S.E. Carpentaria, Box-tree," in fruit only. (E. Palmer, 1882). Labelled 

 E. drepanophylla by Mueller. 



Trinity Bay (Cairns). Referred to E. leptophleba by Mueller himself. 



In bud, Rockingham Bay (Dallachy). Labelled E. leptophleba by Mueller. 



" Grey Box." Chillagoe, west of Cairns (E. Doran, No. 10). 



Eucalyptus leptophleba was noticed soon after the forest country was entered, and it extends westerly 

 to Alma-den and towards Forsayth, but from about this latter locality it seems to give place to a smaller 

 and paler-coloured form of Box Tree (No. 4162), which was found intermittently as far west as the Flinders 

 and Cloncurry Rivers. E. leptophleba is a Box tree with a rather thick bark and long leaves, the rough 

 bark extending to the branchlets. The timber is reddish-brown, with a fairly thick sapwood. It seems 

 to favour the low, rather than the hilly land. (R. H. Cambage, in Jovrn. Roy. Bye N.S.W. xlix ; 397, 1915.) 



