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• It may attain a diameter of several feet, but trees of such size have been destroyed 

 in accessible places. It forms a dense, almost impenetrable thicket of young saplings, 

 and it seems to me that it would handsomely pay to thin out such saplings scientifically. 



2. Near the Kalgan River bridge, Albany, Porongorups to Stirling Range (near a 

 sandstone cliff) we came across some Mallets which were being stripped for their bark. 

 The trees are small, say, 9 inches to 1 foot (I am informed there were some 18 inches). 

 Bark perfectly smooth, dark and glossy. Underneath the bark is a layer of kino uni- 

 formly 'distributed. This is the Brown Mallet. 



Through the kindness of Messrs. Henry Wills and Co., I obtained commercial 

 samples of the White Mallet. This bark has a pinkish fracture and little or no kino. 

 It is a " cleaner " bark than the Brown Mallet; that is to say, a white smooth bark with 

 few stains of any kind. 



Mr. J. H. Gregory described the White Mallet tree to me as more straggly than 

 Brown Mallet. He says it is like a White Gum (redunca) and that one locality is 20 miles 

 from Narrogin (near the Williams River). 



To me it was a " Will o' the Wisp." Any White Mallet trees shown to me were 

 similar to Brown Mallets, and I travelled many a mile after the White Mallet. Brown 

 Mallets I felled myself and took herbarium specimens, but it remains to be proved if 

 the White Mallet differs botanically from the Brown one. 



Mallet bark is chiefly shipped to the Continent of Europe (largely, perhaps mainly) 

 from Albany, and principally to Hamburg and Antwerp. For these two markets it is 

 sent in sacks, broken or crushed into pieces about 2 inches long. 



There is a smaller market for it in the eastern States, principally New South Wales 

 and Victoria, and for those markets it is shipped in powder. 



For shipment from Albany it comes from Tambellup, Katanning, and even more 

 northern railway stations. 



The price of Mallet bark was £4 15s. a ton on the trucks in 1909. Broome Hill 

 seems a very active centre for it, in fact, the local police say it is the centre. (Attached 

 to this paper was a copy of the regulations controlling the stripping of Mallet bark 

 28th March, 1906, made by the Forest Department of Western Australia.) 



The timber is pale-coloured, pinkish, very free in my specimen, and tough. 



It would appear that this variety is related more closely than the other varieties 

 to the normal form. It appears to have smaller fruits and flowers than the normal form 

 (as small as those of Mallet scrub, which may turn out to belong to var. astringens), and 

 with fruits certainly less campanulate. Perhaps these aggregate differences may con- 

 stitute it worthy of specific rank. 



