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Dawson River, he found "A new gum-tree, with a rusty 

 coloured scaly bark, the texture of which, as well as the 

 seed-vessel and the leaf, resembled bloodwood, but specifi- 

 cally different." He again refers to it when on Stephen's 

 Creek (p. 139) and writes: — "A rather stunted rusty gum 

 grew plentifully on the sandstone ridges." It was again 

 noted (p. 195) near the Cape and Suttor Rivers, and (p. 304) 

 below the junction of the Lynd and Mitchell Rivers, also 

 (p. 355) near the Leichhardt River, and "on sandstone 

 ranges" (p. 460) beyond the Roper River, and last (p. 526) 

 near Port Essington. 



A second rather larger Bloodwood tree, (E. terminalis f 

 Nos. 3906 and 3908) occurs at Alma-den, which I have 

 referred to in these notes simply as Bloodwood, and it was 

 noticed over practically the same range as the Red Blood- 

 wood, but with this difference in location that, while the 

 latter favoured the elevated land the former was more often 

 found on the fairly siliceous flats and in the valleys. These 

 two species are quite distinct and can be easily distinguished 

 when seen from coach or train. At certain stages of 

 growth the fruits might be confused with those of the Red 

 Bloodwood, and as the leaves are very similar there seems 

 a possibility that both these species have been placed, in 

 part, under E. terminalis. 



In its bark and general appearance the Bloodwood some- 

 what resembles E. corymbosa, the well known coast 

 Bloodwood, but is specifically distinct, while it also shows 

 affinities with E. Abergiana F.v.M. Its timber is redder 

 than that of the Red-barked Bloodwood, and is regarded as 

 the best of the bloodwood timbers around Alma-den. The 

 fruits vary from urceolate to almost cylindrical with very 

 little contraction at the neck, and the shape changes with 

 the development of the seed vessels. At the time the 

 flowers fall, the very young fruits are sometimes obconical, 



