76 J. H. MAIDEN. 



NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS, (WITH DESCRIPTIONS 

 OP NEW SPECIES) No. I. 



By J. H. Maiden. 



[Read before the Royal Society of N. S. Wales, July 2, 1913.'] 



An old confusion between E. tesselaris, F.v.M., and 

 E. claviaera, A. Cunn., with a proposed new variety 

 of the latter. 



A. E. TESSELARIS, F.V.M. 



This species was described by Mueller, as in the case of 

 so many of his species, from a territory, and not from a 

 specific locality. In Joum. Linn. Soc, iii, 88, he says its 

 habitat is from the south eastern coast of the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria to Moreton Bay, a distance of nearly a thousand 

 miles as the crow flies. 



It is a species well defined. It is the so called Moreton 

 Bay Ash, with the lower part of the bark fissured into 

 small, nearly cubical black pieces, like tesserae. 



In B. PI. iii, 251, Bentham constituted a variety Dalla- 

 chiana, recorded it from Rockhampton, and gave various 

 localities for the normal species. From the localities quoted 

 by him, Careening and Vansittart's Bays, N.W. Coast, A. 

 Cunningham, I have seen a specimen, and it is not different 

 from his var. Dallachiana. I have not seen Robert Brown's 

 nor Mueller's specimens from the Gulf of Carpentaria. 

 Turuiug to the " Eucalyptograpllia, ,, I have seen the speci- 

 men from the Finke River, and it is the variety Dallachiana. 



I have also seen several specimens of var. Dallachiana 

 from different localities adjacent to the N.W. Coast (in 

 Western Australian territory) and they are all var. 

 Dallachiana. 



