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Confined to Western Australia so far as we know at present. Its range may 

 be stated as Lake Yearlering eastwards beyond Kondinin, westwards to some distance 

 on the Great Southern Eailway, and southwards to Katanning. (C. A. Gardner.) 



Four miles north of Wagin, on laterite ridges and hills, either among E. redunca 

 var. data and E. longicarnis , with a scattered undergrowth of Oxylobium parviflorum 

 and Gastrolobium spinosum, or forming dense thicket-like growths with E.astring ens. 

 (C. A. Gardner, No. 509, 15th June 1920.) 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. redunca Schauer var. data Benth. 

 The blue cast of the foliage readily separates E. Gardneri from E. redunca 

 var. data, the " Wandoo." At the same time (compare Plate 140, Part XXXIV). 

 The Wandoo is a larger tree, with thicker, less astringent bark; The buds and fruits 

 of the new species and of the variety have a good deal in common. 



% With E. a string ens Maiden. 



The " Blue-leaf Mallet " (E. Gardneri) closely resembles the " Brown Mallet " 

 (E. astringens) in appearance, but the bark is slightly thinner, but also of a colder, 

 brownish-grey. The decorticating flakes of bark are also much smaller, and the fresh 

 bark lacks the warmth of colour so characteristic of the Brown Mallet. ( C. A. Gardner.) 

 It can readily be distinguished by its glaucous foliage. 



