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The species usually forms gregarious small trees, erect in habit, with smooth 

 hark, a little ribbony at butt. 



Timber with a faint blush of pink when quite fresh, drying to pale-coloured 

 and tough. 



Egg-in-eggcup buds. Fruits more angled in some than others. 



Some of the plants in exposed positions at Hopetoun have fruits nearly as dipterous 

 as those of E. diptera Andrews. 



The figure on the right-hand top corner of the " Eucalyptographia " plate of 

 Eucalyptus obcordata is nearly the type of the present species. 



" Forming dense impenetrable thickets," ' Maalok ' of the natives, Maxwell 

 (quoted by Bentham). 



Mueller (Eucalyptographia) says : " This is the ' Maalok ' of the aborigines, who 

 must have bestowed that particular designation on this Eucalypt for some obvious 

 reason . . . ." This is, however, only partly true, because the term " Maalok " 

 is applied to a number of species in Western Australia. The word •' Maalok" 

 (it might just as well be written " Marlock ") is not specific. It means a thicket, and 

 is used in much the same sense as Mallee is used in the eastern States. There are various 

 qualifying adjectives, such as Black, White, &c. 



Dr. A. Morrison, then Government Botanist of Western Australia, wrote to me 

 in 1909 : * The word ' Maalok ' has always appeared to me to be the equivalent of the 

 eastern ' Mallee ' ; but however that may be, I have been informed by a surveyor (Mr. 

 F. M. Bee), who was at work in the southern part of the State, that it means literally 

 ' thicket/ It seems to be applied to any stunted bushes on the sand plains by white 

 men." He also pointed out that the depauperate form of what is normally a large tree 

 (e.g., E' cahphylla) may be called by bushmen " Marlock." The aboriginal name for 

 this species, which appears to be exclusive, is " Moort." 



SYNONYM. 



E. obcordata Turcz., in Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Petersb., 10, 1852, p. 337. 



"47. Eucalyptus obcordata (Drum. 5, ij. 183). 



" E. glabra; ramis teretibus; foliis alternis obcordato-rotundis, prope emarginaturam interdum 

 utrinque crenulis 1-2 munitis, aut repandis, crassis obscure 5-nerviis, basi in petiolum attenuatis ; umbellis 

 lateralibus 2-5 floris; .pedunculis alato-compressiB petiolo multeities longioiibus; cupulis obconico- 

 pvramidatis tetragonis sessilibue operculo conico-cyliudraceo recto subduplo brevioribus. Species foliorum 

 forma distinctissima ! Pedunculus apice in receptaculum margine dentatum dilatatus. Operculum 

 unicum tantum vidi. Capsula inclusa, vertice piano. Stylus basi incras6atu8, tetragonus. Filamenta 

 lutea, cupulam duplo excedentia." 



