NOTES ON EUCALYPTUS. 77 



I have many specimens of E. tesselaris (the Carbeen of 

 New South Wales, and the Moreton Bay Ash of Queensland) 

 from northern or rather north western New South Wales 

 to northern Queensland, but I have, so far, not seen an 

 authentic specimen from any other State, and I would 

 suggest that botanists re-examine their material attributed 

 to E. tesselaris, as the confusion has caused a good deal 

 of inconvenience as I shall presently show. 



B. E. clavtgera, A. Ounn. 

 This angophoroid spedes was described from Careening 

 Bay, N. W. Australia, just south of York Sound. The 

 original description says the leaves are petiolate, obtuse 

 and glaucescent. 



Bentham (B. Fl. iii, 250) says they are sessile or nearly 

 so, while Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") says much the 

 same, but in greater detail. 



As a matter of fact, it is a variable species, and this has 

 given rise to a number of names more or less synonymous, 

 and which I will refer in detail in my "Critical Revision 

 of the genus Eucalyptus." 



In its typical form the leaves have a hispid or scabrous 

 surface, but they vary a good deal in length of petiole, 

 width and length of leaf and vestiture. 



C. E. clavigera, A. Cunn., var. Dallachiana, var. nov. 



The placing of the tree called by Bentham E. tesselaris, 

 F.v.M. var. Dallachiana under E. tesselaris was acquiesced 

 in by Mueller and Bailey, but it has from time to time 

 raised protests. For example, 



"The variety Dallachiana although described only as such, has 

 certainly all the claims to a separate species, inasmuch as that it 

 totally differs from E. tesselaris, at least in bark, leaves and wood. 

 It is the "White Gum" of the settlers, and the " Dangallboora " of 

 the aborigines, and is a middle-sized spreading tree, with a white 

 smooth bark which is entirely deciduous. The adult foliage is 



