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356. E. astringens Maiden. " Contains from 40 to 56 per cent, tans, and is 

 commonly known as ' Mallet,' ' Brown Mallet/ or ' Red Mallet.' This tree grows up 

 to 50 feet high, and has a thin bark, which is very easily stripped. It is found in 

 thickets of up to 10 acres. Its natural habitat seems to be the ironstone ridges, but 

 further south the Mallet patches are found on the lower flats. The Mallet bark from the 

 northern portion of the area is darker than that from the south, and this latter often 

 assumes a white or flesh-coloured tint on the outside." (H. Salt.) 



247. E. Baileyana F.v.M. " Has a trunk similar to Grey Ironbark (E. paniculate/,) 

 when you are at a distance, but when you are close to it it looks like a Stringybark." 

 (Forester Henry A. Timms, Clarence River, N.S.W.) 



42. E. bicolor A. Cunn. " Box-bark on trunk and branches. About 40 feet 

 high. In Queensland, about 10 miles north of Mungindi, N.S.W." (R. H. Cambage, 

 Xo. 4393.) Mr. Cambage gives the native name as " Cooboroo," which is evidently 

 a variant of the name " Goborro " given by Sir Thomas Mitchell as in use in 1835 by 

 the natives of south-western New South Wales. Attention is also drawn to the 

 "" Boxbark " of the Mungindi tree. Mr. Cambage also has specimens (called by the 

 same name by the blacks), but not so satisfactory, from Bimble Station, 70 miles north 

 of Mungindi (No. 4405). 



126. E. botryoides Sm. Barks of E. botryoides and E. robusta are known as 

 Mahogany, originally applied to the timber, which is softer than that of E. resinifera 

 and its allies. (See Part LIII, p. 155, under Timbers.) See also Rhytiphloise (b), with 

 red timbers (Part LI, p. 45, under Barks), where the bark is described, including that 

 of the Gippsland trees. 



In my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," Part LXXII, we have the following 

 description of the bark of these trees : — " Dark, rough scaly, and persistent on the stem 

 and main branches, smooth on the smaller branches, outer bark on these peeling off in 

 thin flakes " (top of p. 41). In parts of Gippsland the species would appear to attain 

 its best development, and there to be a half -barked tree (Hemiphloise). We have thus 

 another instance of the impossibility of marshalling all individuals of a species into 

 recognised groups of barks. 



157. E. brachyandra F.v.M. "Grey, rough, persistent on trunk and branches." 

 Sunday Island, North-west Australia (W. V. Fitzgerald MSS.). " Fibrous, persistent, 

 fairly rough, the branchlets smooth, of a grey brown colour, decorticating in long strips. 

 The bark of the trunk is of a dark brownish-grey." (C. A. Gardner, Kimberleys.) 



120. E. cwsia Benth. "Mr. C. A. Fauntleroy, Uberin, Dowerin, W.A., says: 

 ' The bark has a long-grained fibre and runs like Jarrah. It is composed of a number 

 of thin layers or flakes, hardly as thick as a threepenny-piece while green, and when 

 dry are thinner still. The lower wood is shedding a layer now, which splits into narrow 

 strips along the stem and breaks across at short intervals, some pieces curling vertically, 



