BY J. H. MAIDEN. 765. 



Woollsiana No. 2 can no more be included with Woollsiana 

 No. 1 than can E. dives and E. Camhagei with amygdalina and 

 goniocalyx respectively. 



The term " Mallee Box " is not always applicable to forms 

 included under E. Woollsiana, while other species or varieties are 

 also termed " Mallee Box." 



Of the identity of E. cajuputea and E. polyhractea I have little 

 or no doubt. Of the identity of E. acacioides and E. viridis I 

 have little or no doubt. Of the identity of E. cajuputea and E. 

 acacioides I am not absolutely certain, and therefore keep them 

 separate for the present. Perhaps one is a variety of the other. 

 That there is transit from E. cajuputea and E. acacioides to E. 

 Woollsiana No. 1 I have no doubt. 



I make the above remarks partly in contemplation of the 

 following specimens : — 



(1) At Minore, N.S.W., (J. L. Boorman) we have normal 

 acacioides and also a coarser form with fruits more spreading at 

 the orifice. It is near E. cajuputea', it is near E. Woollsiana 

 No. 1. Both are Mallees. 



(2) Mr. Baker's type-specimens of E. viridis from Girilambone 

 are rather coarse-foliaged, with leaves up to \ in. diameter. My 

 odorata var. linearis specimens have narrower and perhaps thicker 

 leaves. The " Green Mallee " is indeed variable. 



(3) E. cajujnitea is very near E. acacioides. For example, 

 Dombey Bay, S.A., specimens show the very great difficulty, 

 perhaps the impossibility, of separating E. cajuputea from the 

 Green Mallee {viridis) and from the Blue Mallee {polyhractea). 



Much collecting yet requires to be done. We particularly 

 require juvenile foliage, and axe-cuts of the timber of as many 

 forms as possible. It is far from my thoughts that I have 

 settled the affinities of the " Western Boxes." But I have care- 

 fully studied the types, and have travelled much amongst them 

 in the bush; and I hope that this contribution will tend to finality 

 amongst these bewildering forms. 

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