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E. acmenioides is one of the worst species to sucker, and one of the first to send up a crop of seedlings 

 /fter ringbarking, and if left alone it forms a dense forest of saplings in a very short time, as the growth is 

 lemarkably rapid. (North-eastern New South Wales, W. F. Blakely.) 



E. dealbata A. Cunn. " A considerable number of seedlings of it were found coming up naturally 

 in the forest where it was planted after the forest had been damaged by a severe forest fire. This is the first 

 and only definite record we have of any natural reproduction of Eucalyptus in northern India. In the 

 same forest there is also natural reproduction of E. globulus as a result of the fire, but the seedlings are 

 mainly of the species (E. dealbata) I am sending." (R. S. Hole, C.I.E., Forest Botanist, Dehra Dun, U.P. 

 India, 11th November, 1922.) 



Flowering in Dwarf State. 



(See Part XLIX, p. 273.) 



E. Foelscheana F.v.M. " Flowering already at the height of 18 inches (as is the 

 case also with E. cordata and E. vernicosa)." (Original description of species.) 



E. pilularis Sm. Otford, by the roadside, halfway to Stanwell Park, N.S.W. 

 (W. F. Blakely, November, 1922.) 



E. punctata DC. On top of big tunnel, half-way between Wondabyne and Woy 

 Woy, N.S.W. (W. F. Blakely and D. W. C. Shiress, November, 1922). 



E. umbra R. T. Baker. Same locality and date. 



Liquids in Tree Trunks. 



(See Part XLIX, p. 286, and also under Kinos, p. 145, below. 



" This phenomenon was quite common at Longford, near Sale, where I lived many years ago, in 

 E. Stuartiana (locally called ' Apple Tree '), and particularly in the largest and soundest (i.e., not over- 

 matured) trees. It was not noticeable in other species thereabout. This liquid tasted and smelt like sour 

 cider. Sometimes in felling one of these trees, when the cut reached near the centre, there would be a 

 report like the crack of a rifle, and then the liquid would gush out in quite a large quantity." (H. Hopkins, 

 Bairnsdaje, V., 3rd January, 1922.) 



E. alba Reinw. " The heartwood contains water, which runs out in fair quantities when the tree 

 is felled." (C. A. Gardner, Kimberleys, North-west Australia.) 



E. Hovseana (W.V.F.) Maiden. " The trunk is frequently swollen at the base, forming a kind of 

 pedestal as in E. redunca var. elata." (C. A. Gardner, Kimberleys.) 



Pendulous Branches. 



(See Part XLIX, p. 288.) 



'A species, not mentioned by you, in which this characteristic is conspicuous in parto or this district 

 ??£. folyanthemos. This is particularly noticeable at Longford, near Sale, at Heyfield, and between Bairns- 

 dale and Bruthen. The late Dr. Howitt once said to me that he thought those trees with the slender 

 pendulous branches and the other less or not at all pendulous character were really two separate varieties, 

 but I do not think they can be separated botanically. In this district E. macrorrhyncha is not noticeably 

 pendulous in habit, although I have seen it so occasionally." (H. Hopkins, Bairnsdale, Victoria.) 



E. Campaspe, E. microtheca (Coolabah), and E. popidifolia (Bimble Box) may 

 be added to the list of species with conspicuously pendulous branches, at least on 

 occasion. 



