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D. Western Australian Species. — This provisional group contains three tropical 

 species, of whose bark and habit we are but imperfectly informed. When we know 

 more about some of the members included in it, it will be revised. The timbers are all 

 brown, or believed to be so. 



E. argillacea W. V. Fitzgerald. 



E. cornuta Labill. 



E. foecunda Schau. 



E. gamophylla F.v.M. 



E. Guilfoylei Maiden. 



E. megacarpa F.v.M. 



E. occidentalis Endl. 



E. oligantha Schau. 



E. argillacea W. V. Fitzgerald. 

 A tree of 25-40 feet, 9-12 inches diameter. Bark dark grey, persistent on the 

 trunk and semi-fibrous, approaching that of a Box. We know very little of this species ; 

 perhaps it would be better with the Western Australian Blackbutts, see p. 29. 



E. cornuta Labill. 

 A tree of medium size, spreading, with rough, boxy, fibrous, dark bark, with 

 vertical fissures close to each other, limbs ribbony and smooth. An old Yate resembles 

 an Ironbark at the butt. 



E. foecunda Schau. 

 A tree of medium size, the trunk with rough bark up to the branches, which are 

 usually spreading. It has black flaky to almost ribbony bark on trunk, smooth limbs. 

 Sometimes when it is young it grows in clumps from one root, thus showing affinity to 

 the Marlocks. 



E. GAMOPHYLLA F.V.M. 



A glaucous shrub or small tree, widths of timber not exceeding 8 inches being 

 available. Notes on the bark are not available to me. 



E. Guilfoylei Maiden. 

 A tall tree, with fibrous or stringy bark to within a few feet of the branches. It 

 seems to resemble E. acmenioides of the eastern States a good deal. 



E. megacarpa F.v.M. 

 This is locally known as " Blue Gum " in South-Western Australia. It is a 

 gouty, useless timber tree, which may exceptionally attain a diameter of 3 feet. The 

 bark is like a White Gum, or perhaps like a Grey Gum (E. punctata, eastern New South 

 Wales) to some extent ; that is to say, white and smooth, with patches of bark of sand- 

 paper-like texture, which peel off and present a smooth surface, which, in its turn, 

 roughens and exfoliates. Bark rather thick, wood not hard, with large gum-veins, and 

 becoming; brownish towards the heart. 



