April 1934. 
The Queensland Naturalist 
31 
Beils chmiedia Barter of tii C. T. White; 
Elaeocarpus Bancroftii Meuller & Bailey ; 
Eucalyptus Bancroftii J. II. Maiden. 
Zoology : — 
Culex bancrofti Skuse; 
Myzorhynchus bancrofti Giles; 
Filaria bancrofti Cobbold; 
Microfilaria bancrofti Fullerton ; 
Pseudambasis bancrofti de Vis. 
HaemaphysaMs bancroftii Nuttal and Warburton. 
THE EUCALYPTS OR GUM TREES OF THE 
BRISBANE DISTRICT. 
(By C. T. WHITE, Government Botanist.) 
(Continued from the 4 ‘Queensland Naturalist,” 
Vol. IX., p. 9.) 
21. Eucalyptus corymb osa, Common Bloodwood. 
Description . — A large tree with a persistent bark, the 
bark often somewhat spongy and friable, broken into very 
irregular tessellations, outer layer flaky, the inner layers 
rather fibrous. Leaves on coppice shoots or young trees 
not markedly different from those on the adult trees but 
sometimes very large, up to 9 inches long and 24 inches 
broad, on a petiole or leaf -stalk of 1 inch or more, sub- 
coriaceous in texture, more or less lanceolate in shape, 
straight or sometimes slightly falcate, apex drawn out into 
a slender point, base acute equal side or more frequently 
slightly oblique. Ordinary (secondary or adult leaves) 
straight or somewhat falcate lanceolate, apex acute ; rather 
glossy green above, paler and opaque beneath ; petiole 
or leaf-stalk 4 to 1 inch long; blade varying somewhat 
in size but mostly about 4 inches long, and 1 inch broad; 
lateral nerves fine, parallel and close together (mostly 
about 1 line apart) , intramarginal vein very close to the 
edge and sometimes scarcely distinguishable from the 
thickened and slightly recurved leaf margin. Flowers in 
umbels, the umbels in panicles, the panicles terminal and 
in the upper leaf axils, the whole forming a somewhat 
corymbose inflorescence. Individual flowers varying 
greatly in size; calyx tube short tapering into a long 
pedicel, pedicel and calyx together measuring from 1/3 to 
f inch long, operculum short hemispherical. Stamens in 
several series all fertile, in the larger flowered forms the 
longer filaments up to nearly I inch; anthers openiilg by 
longitudinal parallel slits. Seed capsules urn-shaped or 
subglosose. about 4 inch in diameter, 3-4 celled, valves 
very deeply sunk. 
