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I agree with Luehmann as regards E. dichromophloia and E. pyrophora, and 
I have my doubts as to the specific rank of two other Bloodwoods, viz., 
E. Watsonicina, E.v.M., and E. Foelschiana, E.v.M. I think there have been too 
many names applied to the Bloodwoods, which necessarily, in a territory of millions 
of square miles, must exhibit much variation. 
I do not at present follow Luehmann in making terminalis a variety of 
corymbosa, as I fully believe in the individuality of the White Bloodwood, and feel 
that it is probably something more than a mere variety of ordinary Bloodwood. 
If Mueller’s view that this Pale Bloodwood is the coastal form of E. terminalis 
is wrong, then we must adopt Mr. Baker’s name of E. intermedia. At present there 
are in the National Herbarium at Sydney some 150 herbarium specimens of 
E. corymbosa and E. terminalis , collected over a very wide area, and I am also 
indebted to Mr. Baker for a specimen of his E. intermedia. Except in those 
instances in which I have also specimens of the timber, I am simply unable, in the 
majority of cases, to separate them into corymbosa and terminalis. The matter is 
further complicated by the fact that the White Bloodwood of “ poor ridgy country 
along the coast of southern Queensland” is E. trachyphloia, E.v.M. The timber 
appears to be identical with our Pale Bloodwood. The fruits are smaller, but the 
leaves, in the coast districts, are very similar. I trust that the many readers of this 
“ Eorest Elora ” will, in the interests of forest science in New South Wales, furnish 
me with further particulars of the occurrence of White or Pale Bloodwood, and also 
favour me with small axe-cuts of the timber, together with corresponding twigs in 
flower and fruit. Then we shall be able to settle, once for all, the limits and 
synonymy of E. corymbosa , E. terminalis , E. intermedia and E. trachyphloia. 
I will figure some of these forms later on. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 45. 
The Bloodwood {Eucalyptus corymbosa, Sm.) 
A. Twig, bearing flowers. 
b. Fruits, urn or urceolate in shape. Not quite ripe, but well showing the constricted shape. 
(a and b from Sydney district.) 
c. Fruits from Byron Bay, N.S.W. 
d. Fruits collected by Bobert Brown (“ East coast, 1802-5 ”). [See the text for observations 
in regard to variation of the shape of the fruits in this and allied species.] 
B 
