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DESCRIPTION. 



ex. E. patens Bentham. 



In Flora Australiensis iii, 247 (186G). 



It was subsequently described and figured in " Eucalyptograpbin." It is a large 

 tree, gro\vs in damp land, and bas rougb bark all over tbe trunk and branches. 

 Said bark is soft rather than hard, thick, greyish black. In "Western Australia 

 such a bark is called " Elackbutt." In the Eastern States it would be called 

 " Woolly-butt." Tbe tree reminded me somewhat of Jarrah in general appearance, 

 but Jarrah bark is less rough. 



The juvenile leaves opi)osite or ternate from broad to narrow-ovate, large, 

 strictly sessile, cordate, and the broader ones auriculate, mostly abruptly drawn at 

 the top into a narrow point, often \ of an inch long, the thickened margins indis- 

 tinctly and irregularly crenulate. They have not been previously described, and 

 were sent by Mr. Max Koch from the Preston Valley. (Maiden in Joiirn, TF.A. 

 Nat. Eist. SoG. iii, 1911.) 



RANGE. 



It is a common sj)ccies in south Western Australia. Bentham originally 

 quoted Harvey River, Oldfield, Tone Hiver and granite rocks near Cape Arid, 

 Maxwell (apparently the most eastern locality so far), and also quoted DrummoncVs 

 4tb Collection No. 72. 



Mueller (" Eucalyptographia ") adds "in damp valleys of the Upper Swan 

 Eiver and on slopes of fertile ridges on the Blackwood Iliver." It is not referred to 

 in his "Forest Piesources of Western Australia " (1S82). 



It is the common " Blackbutt " of southwestern Australia. In my trip 

 it first appeared at about 5 miles out from Yallingup, going to the Margaret River. 

 On the eastern (W.A.) gold-fields, however, the term " Blackbutt " is ajiplicd to 

 several other species. 



It is represented by the following specimens in the National Ilerbariura, 

 Sydney. 



