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It has been already stated that E. siderophloia is a species very uniform in 

 character, and the following specimens from central coastal New South Wales 

 display as much difference from the normal form as is known to me (variety glauca 

 excepted). 



(a) Raymond Terrace to Stroud (Red Ironhark). 



Some of these trees have fruits with exserted valves, and also fruits strikingly 

 like those of E. paniculata in shape, — valves hardly, if at all, exserted, and the orifice 

 in some cases somewhat contracted. For example, at Paddy's Hill, 14 miles north 

 of Raymond Terrace, we have these paniculata-like fruits, with valves of fruit not 

 exsert (J.H.M.). 



Woy Woy. — Similar to preceding (A. Murphy), and with buds probably not 

 so long in the operculum, but they are not ripe in either case. 



(b) With short operculum with a tendency to a beak, like E. rostrata, but not 



long like E. tereticornis or E. resinifera. Taree to Wollamba (No. 291, 

 Forest Department) sent as " Narrow-leaved Ironbark." The leaves of 

 most trees are narrower as the top of the tree is reached. It is not 

 E. paniculata. 



Specimens sent as " Red Ironbark," Port Macquarie, by Forest Ranger 

 G. R. Brown, are similar. 



Queensland. 



Moreton Bay (James Backhouse, 1836). 



Near Brisbane, where it is said to be sometimes known as "Yellow Ironbark" 

 (P. MacMahon). 



Taylor's Range (F. M. Bailey). E. resinifera grows in the district, and has 

 buds with long opercula also. 



" Red Ironbark," Rockhampton and North Rockhampton. I see no 

 difference between these and Port Jackson specimens (A. Murphy). 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. pilularis, Sm. 



"When the operculum is short, specimens in bud only are much like those of the Blackbutt 

 (E. pilularis) with which they appear to have been confounded, both by De Candolle and F. Mueller, 

 although distinguished by all collectors ; when the flowers are open the anthers gire a ready character, 

 and the venation of the leaves is somewhat different." (B.F1. iii, 220.) 



The fruits, bark, and timber of the two species are very different, but 

 specimens in bud, and even young bud (and the early collectors sometimes were 

 only able to obtain such) sometimes show the similarity to which Bentham refers. 



