222 TUMOURS OF EUCALYPTS AND ANGOPHORAS, 



every one of these was hopelessly damaged; and consequently 

 the specimens are not typical examples, but they are all we can 

 get. The youngest ( x ^ about) has the seedling-stem broken off 

 short, just above the level of the second pair of stem-nodules, one 

 of which is now missing. The nodules of the first pair are back 

 and front, and unfused. The posterior one has one shoot. The 

 front one also had one, but this was broken off short. The 

 surviving nodule of the second pair developed five shoots, the 

 largest of which has two branches, and made good progress. It 

 has fused with the nodules of the first pair, and has grown down- 

 wards to much below the level of the first pair. This nodule and 

 its shoots w^ere keeping the plant going. 



Two older examples differ in age. The smaller has half an 

 inch of the stump of the stem left. There appear to be two 

 pairs of nodules. The first pair inade some progress, but did 

 not fuse. One of them has three shoots, two of which are 5- (5 

 inches long. This nodule was keeping the plant going. One of 

 the second pair fused with the nodule with shoots; the other 

 made little progress. The bark on the nodules is very thick, and 

 adherent. 



The larger one is more difficult to understand, as the stem is 

 almost completely missing. There are shoots up to 10 inches, in 

 two places, on the margin of what is left. There is one pair of 

 futile nodules, one much better developed than the other, on 

 opposite sides of what is left of the stem, which is about 1 inch 

 thick. Both this specimen and the preceding one have a long 

 piece of the root intact. The smaller one has two, nearly oppo- 

 site, lateral roots, and one above and one below these, not far 

 away. But the larger one has three promising lateral roots at 

 different levels, two on opposite sides of the taproot, and a middle 

 one in a direction at right angles. An encircling tumour would 

 have to make considerable growth before incorporating all of 

 them. 



For the large specimen shown in PI. xxiii., in the natural 

 position, as we think (rather than view^ed with the taproot 

 vertical), we are again indebted to Mr. Cambage. The best 

 aspect of it is shown. A farmer, in grubbing up the plant, with 

 one blow from his axe, delivered just behind the base of the big 



