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An old Yate is a large tree, and is something like an Ironbark on the butt. 

 Indeed, it is sometimes called an Ironbark for this reason. There is no true Ironbark 

 in Western Australia. Beyond the butt, the first large branches have bark more 

 flaky, while the smaller branches are smooth, or nearly so. At maturity it becomes 

 a large spreading tree, fond of creek sides. 



It is considered to be the toughest of Western Australian woods, and the honey 

 produced by the flowers is good. (Maiden in Journ. W.A. Nat, Hist. Soc, iii, Jan., 

 1911.) 



SYNONYM. 



E. macrocera Turcz. 



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Glabrous branched stem, branches terete, covered with bark deciduous in layers ; leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the base, refuse, ending in a rather thick mucro, opaque; flowers 

 on a recurved and compressed peduncle, sessile in a head ; heads 3-8 flowered ; calyx-tube turbinate, 

 operculum conical, corniform, smooth, the apex incurved, eight times as long as the calyx-tube, and a 

 little broader at the base than the calyx-tube. Stamens numerous, yellow, many times longer than the 

 calyx-tube, style of the same length as the stamens, terminating in an ovate stigma. Operculum longer 

 than in the related E. coniuta (Drummond's 4th Coll. No. 63), always recurved towards the apex. 

 Drumraond's 4th Coll. No. 67. (Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 22, pt. 2, p. 20, 1849). 



Bentham (B. Fl. iii, 233) places E. macrocera under E. Lehmanni, remarking 

 that it was "described apparently from an imperfect specimen." I have two specimens 

 of the type before me, and I can detect no coherence of the fruits at the base. The 

 individual fruits when picked off, as they can be separately, show scars on the top of a 

 swollen peduncle. E. macrocera is therefore a synonym of E. cornuta and not of E. 

 Lehnanni, in which the fruits are fused into a mass. 



RANGE. 



The Yate, a tree of moderate size, when aged rising exceptionally to 100 feet, adapted for poor soil, 

 but preferring humid localities, occurring also on limestone ground, thriving even in the most tropical 

 climes. . . This tree is fit even for greatly exposed situations. (Eucabjptographia). 



It is confined to Western Australia. 



The type came from the vicinity of King George's Sound (terra Van Leuwin). 

 Bentham gives its range as from King George's Sound eastward to Cape Riche, and 

 coastwise northerly to the Vasse River. 



