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LXXV. E. falcata Turcz. 



(Syn. E. Dorrienii Domin in Fedde's " Repertorium specierum nov. reg. veget.." xii, 



388, 1913.) 



The author says that in his opinion it is nearest to E. decurva F.v.M., and also 

 compares it with E. oleosa F.v.M., and E. falcata Turcz. In comparing it with the last 

 species, he says " E. falcata reminds us of it in the ribbed calyx-tube, but differs from it 

 greatly in the operculum." 



I am in possession of a quarto drawing of the type in the Kew Herbarium done 

 by Miss M. Smith, and also of a fragment of the type. I fail to see in what way 

 E. Dorrienii differs from E. falcata. The opercula of the two species are similar. See 

 Plate 68. Part XV of the present work. The suggestion of the affinity of E. Dorrienii 

 (falcata) with E. decurva is doubtless founded on the same error that I have pointed out 

 in the present work. Part XVI, p. 193. The above note is taken from a paper by 

 myself in Journ. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xliv, 328, 1915. 



Mr. C. A. Gardner says this species is known as " White Mallet.'' It is a tree 

 of 20-30 feet, with erect, or scarcely spreading branches; trunk to 12 feet high, and 

 12 inches in diameter; bark about j- inch thick, of a yellowish silver-grey colour in 

 the summer when the outer layers have recently decorticated, almost pure white in the 

 winter and blotched with large or smaller grey patches. Bark pink in fracture, the 

 deepest colour near the external layers, the innermost almost white ; timber light 

 yellowish-brown, dense and very hard. Leaves thick, drooping, dull green, but shining. 

 On laterite hills. 10 miles north-east of Wagin, in gravelly soil (shallow), forming open 

 forests with E. redvnca var. elata, and with a dense thicket-like undergrowth ot 

 Dryandra. 



