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SYNONYM. 



E. agnata Domin; (agnata= cognate or allied). 



Following is a translation of the original : — 

 Tree-like, branchiate slender, the remains of the petioles decurrent and angular. 

 Leaves alternate, rather distant from each other, broad or almost ovate-lanceolate, contracted, 

 rhombus-like, at the base into a rather long petiole (about 2 cm. long), sub-falcate and mostly inequilateral 

 without petioles, about 13-17 cm. long and 34—4 cm. broad, glaucescent, coriaceous, and rather thick, 

 midrib prominent, lateral nerves diverging obliquely, conspicuous on both sides. 



Peduncles 2-2£ cm. long, flattened, and with a subdilated apex, almost 5 mm. broad, erect, pseudo- 

 terminal and growing out of the axils of the topmost leaves, bearing a crowded, 3-6 flowered umbel ; flowers 

 sub-sessile — i.e., the pedicels rather thick and very short, about 2-3 mm. long. 



Receptacle urceolate under the expanded flower, about 6-7 mm. long and above (the orifice) broader 

 than long, smooth. 



Stamens yellow, erect, about 12 mm. long, hardly bent in the buds and not tiexuose; anthers 

 oblong, at least twice as long as broad, cells of the anthers parallel. 



Operculum about 10-11 mm. long, very obtuse, about 8 mm. at the base (transverse diameter), about 

 5 mm. broad at the apex. 



Fruit urceolate, but not perfectly ripe, about 8-9 mm. long, and just as much broad at the interior 

 margin of the orifice, adorned with a brown lobulate-gibbous ring ; the conical capsule distinctly protruding 

 and further crowned with an elongated style. 



Western Australia. Slab Hut Creek to Cranbrook, Great Southern Railway. Collected by Capt. 

 A. Dorrien Smith, 1910. 



The species is closest to E. occidentalis, but is distinguished by its large, broad leaves, sub-sessile 

 flowers, operculum and fruit. E. occidentalis, in various localities, displays strange forms, but the plant 

 above described seems to differ specifically from the forms and all varieties. 



E. comuta and E. annulala are distinguished at first sight from our species by the leaves, operculum, 

 and also the fruit. (Fedde's Repertorium Specierum novarum regni vegetabilis, Band XII, No. 25/27, Sept., 

 1913, p. 389.) 



I have a note on this species at p. 140. 



The Name " Mallet " and its Derivatives. 



The earliest use of the name known to me is by the botanical collector, 

 J. Drummond, written in 1839 to Sir W. J. Hooker. 



The beautiful pink Cockatoo, named after Mr. Leadbeater, is common in this part of the country. 

 These birds come in flocks to the neighbourhood of the Avon to feed on the seeds of the Blackboy (Xan- 

 thorrhcca) and flowers of the Red Gum (Eucalyptus calophylla) ; the natives tell us they breed in the tops 

 of a very high species of Eucalyptus, which they call Mallert, and which grows a day or two's journey to 

 the east of where we were ; the black Cockatoo, with reel bars sctoss the tail, is reported by them to breed 

 in the same tree. (TJie Journal of Botany, W. J. Hooker, Vol. 2 (1840), p. 361.) 



Captain Lort Stokes, in his " Discoveries in Australia," ii, 132 (1846) has " Mallat," 



a native name for a species of Eucalyptus, " tall, straight, with rough bark." He 



collected the names about 1840. This is the name (usually spelt "Mallet" now) 



applied to a variety of this species, see below, p. 142. The normal form of the species 



sually goes under the name of " Flat-topped -Yate," or " Swamp Yate." 



