556 



E conica. — Some purplish filaments. Jennings. New South Wales, 



E. erythrocorys. — A species normally with yellow filaments, but rarely purplish. 



See \>. 557. 



E. erythronema. — We have in the Dowerin district. Western Australia (C. A. 



Fauntleroy). a white filamented form in which the pigment is alone in the opercula, 



which are of a bright rosy red. The usual colour of the filaments is crimson. I have 



seen them pink. 



E. eudes»u'oide$. — Filaments rose-coloured at base (original description). 



/:'. ficifulia. — See under E. ealophylla. " I have noticed two distinct colours 

 in the blossom of E. ficifolia, i.e., scarlet and a much paler colour, pink I would say." 

 E. J. T. Brockman, of Balingup, Western Australia, where the tree grows naturally. 

 This is normally a species orange to scarlet. I have exceptionally seen white 

 filaments. 



E. hemipMoia.—T. W. Shepherd is quoted to have found one specimen of this 

 species with red flowers (W. Woolls "Lectures on the Vegetable Kingdom," p. 221). 

 Mueller ('* Eucalvptographia ") speaks of it as " occasionally very deep purplish 

 colour." It must be very occasionally. Perhaps he is thinking of E. odorata in South 

 Australia. 



/:'. macroearpa. — " The flowers w r ere pale-coloured. I took very careful note 

 of the tint and would describe it as pale carmine red, with a tendency to blue. I think, 

 perhaps, crimson is the best general description of the flower's colour, but I cannot 

 at all agree to ' rich ' crimson ; bright crimson I should say at the utmost. Never 

 have I seen a blossom of the species with anything like the depth of colour that is 

 found in the flowers of E. ficifolia." (0. H. Sargent, York, Western Australia.) See 

 Part II, p. 241, and Jourti. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., li., 451, 453. This species is normally 

 pink; I have heard of an exceptional white specimen. 



!■',. melliodora.—Vvak flowering Yellow Box. Deep-coloured and very beautiful. 

 Jusl outside town of Coonabarabran, New South Wales. (Forester B. C. Meek.) 



E. odorata var. purpurascens. — Filaments white or cream-coloured to pale- 

 purplish or pink and crimson. 



E. poh/antliemo*. — " Flowers red. Flowering as a shrub." Quiedong, near 

 Bombala, New South Wales. (W. Baeuerlen.) 



E. ptychocarpa F.v.M. — 809. Eight-mile Spring on to Tanumbirini, Northern 

 Territory. Found near creeks and springs, 26th March, 1912. Stem like Bloodwood. 

 Crimson filaments. Leaves, buds and flowers. 810. Eight-mile Creek on to Tanum- 

 birini, 2Gth March, 1912. ('ream-coloured lilaments. Leaves, flowers. (Tree similar 

 to 809.) 



I' i- to be noted thai this species has filaments of two colours. This character 

 is not rare; on the other hand il is not common. (<!. F. T Fill's Northern Territory 

 collections.) See also I 'art XLIV, }>}>. 10."). 106, for a further note on the varying 

 colour- of the filaments. 



