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2. Witli E. accedens W. Y. Fitzgerald. 



Mr. Schock, the Colkctdi' of tlio Forest Departinent of Western Australia, calls 

 E. Lane-Poolei " TowAev-hark Wandoo. '" BotJi species are White Gud s, \\ith white, 

 powdery barl<s, and the timbers have soir.e external resemblarife. The sylvieultural 

 conditions of the two trees require to be worked out. As to tlie use of the term 

 " Powdor-bark," Part XXXIV, p. 101, of this work may be referred to. If we turn 

 to Plate 142 of the same Part, and compare it with figures 4 and 8 of Plate 74, which 

 in part depict E. Laiie-Poolei, it will be seen that the two species have no close Ijotanical 

 affinity. 



3. With E. Oldfieldii F.v.M. 



The affinity of this species is with E. Oldfieldii, which included E. Drvmmondii 

 Benth., a species which in Part XVII of this work I erroneously followed Mueller in 

 suppressing. I have shown, in Part XLI, how these two species differ. The affinity 

 of E. Lave-Poolei is with E. Drummondii rather than with E. Oldfieldii sensu strictu. 

 E. Oldfieldii is a Mallee with fruits in threes, while E. Lane-Poolei is a tree of considerable 

 size, with fruits up to six in the head. The buds ar.d leaves, lioth juvenile and u'ature, 

 are very different. 



4. With E. Drummondii Benth. 



This species, of which but little is known in the field, is described from the York 

 district as " a small tree of about 20 feet, with trunk and branches smooth, whitish- 

 buf¥, with a few brown semi-detached scales of dead bark." Additional field-notes are 

 very desirable, but it would appear that E. Lane-Poolei is a different tree, and a 

 Powder-bark. 



Comparison, however, with figures 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 of Plate 74 {E. Dnimwondii), 

 together with a good specimen of the type of this species, is suflicient to show that it 

 and E. Lane-Poolei (figures 4 and 8 of Plate 74) are sufficiently diffei-ent. The leaves 

 of E. Drummondii are commonly, perhaps preponderatingly, ovate-lanceolate, the buds 

 more ovoid, with the opercula longer than the calyx-tube; the fruits are smaller, and 

 very dift'erent. 



5. With E. Campaspe S. le M. Moore. 



It is interesting to note a resemblance in the very thick, hemispherical operculum 

 of E. Camjyaspe, but the anthers are dift'erent, and so are the fruits and other characters. 

 But one so frequently receives, particularly from distant places, botanical' specimens 

 which are c[uite fragmentary, and a hint which may put one on one '.s guard may 

 be useful. 



G. With E. oleosa F.v.M. 



In its anthers it belongs to the Platyanthera;, which includes E. oleosa and its 

 allies. The species are, however, very dift'erent in many other respects, but endeavour 

 will be made to discuss these relationships when the seedlings of all the species are brought 

 into comparison. 



