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"Round-leaf Moort." " Tree of 20-30 feet and 6-12 inches diameter. Filaments 

 greenish-yellow." Near Growangerup Railway Station, east of Tambellup (Dr. F. 

 Stoward, No. 95). Dr. Steward says it grows in the eastern district, east of Katanning 

 and Tambellup, and that the bark is commercially valuable for tanning purposes. 



" Round-leaf Moort." Township of Growangerup (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 124). 



" Round-leaf Moort." " Bottom of slope, damp land, off roadside, main road 

 near and east of Growangerup. Tree 15-20 feet and over, forming dense forests in the 

 locality." (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 129.) 



" Moort." Growangerup, east of Broome Hill (W. C. Grasby). 



" Round-leaf Moort." ' Dense sapling-like growths almost exclusively of this 

 tree occupy light sandy stretches, the upper layers of which contain much organic matter 

 and are almost black in colour. This species appears to be confined to gentle depressions 

 where natural drainage occurs, and are frequently very moist during the wet period of 

 the year; 4-5 miles west of Ongerup, off main road; 10-15 feet or more in height, 

 branches only at top, main stem 3-4 inches in diameter." (Dr. F. Stoward, No. 130.) 



It is known as " Laurel Gum." Smooth bark, grey streaks, thick round leaf. 

 About 20 feet high. Largest about 14 inches through. Usually in dense thickets. 

 " ' Moort ' of the aborigines." (F. M. Bee, near West Mt. Barren, correspondent of 

 Dr. A. Morrison.) 



It is abundant at Hopetoun, 170 miles east of Albany, where it is the commonest 

 Eucalypt near the beach, forming dense masses (thickets) up to 30 feet in height and 

 with a trunk diameter of 4 inches to a foot. (J.H.M.) 



A SUPPOSED VARIETY. 



Now we come to consideration of a supposed variety. 



" In R. Brown's collections are some specimens in very young bud and fruit 

 from Goose Island Bay, apparently of a variety of this species, with leaves from ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, but obtuse and under 2 inches long, as in the broad-leaved form. I 

 have not seen the stamens.'' (B. Fl. iii, 235.) 



Goose Island Bay is Robert Brown's Bay ii and is in the D'Entrecasteaux 

 Archipelago (say Lat. 34° S. ; long. 122° 23' E.) near Esperance. (See my " Sir Joseph 

 Banks," p. 107.) 



These may be compared with the Hopetoun specimens, from no great distance. 

 I have there collected specimens quite typical, and, amongst them, leaves varying from 

 lanceolate to broadly lanceolate. I do not think that we have here even a variety. 



In Proc. Roy. Hoc. S.A., XVI, 358. Mueller and Tate, in describing the Elder 

 Expedition specimens, record E. obcordata (platypus) as collected by R. Helms on 5th 

 November, 1891, 40 miles north-west from Fraser Range, W.A. 



As mentioned by me in Part XVI, p. 204 of this work, the specimens are referable 

 to the species afterwards named E. Campaspe Moore. 



