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DESCRIPTION. 



CX. E. patens Bentham. 



In Flora Australiensis iii, 247 (1866). 



It was subsequently described and figured in " Eucalyptographia." It is a largo 

 tree, grows in damp land, and bas rougb bark all over tbe trunk and branches. 

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

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

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

 but Jarrah bark is less rough. 



The juvenile leaves opposite or teruate 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 Journ. W.A. 

 Nat. Bist. Soo. iii, 1911.) 



RANGE. 



It is a common species in south Western Australia. Bentham originally 

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

 Maxioell (apparently the most eastern locality so far), and also quoted Drummond's 

 4th Collection No. 72. 



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

 Biver and on slopes of fertile ridges on the Blackwood River." It is not referred to 

 in his " Forest Resources of Western Australia " (1882). 



It is the common " Blackbutt " of south Western 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 applied to 

 several other species. 



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

 Sydney. 



