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DESCRIPTION. 



CCCI. x E. Barmedmanensis Maiden, n.sp. 



Reputed parents, E. sideroxylon A. Cunn., and E. melliodora A. Cunn. 



Before submitting a formal description of this hybrid and of some trees which are 

 close to, and probably identical with it, it will be instructive to quote three passages 

 from Mr. R. H. Cambage's writings and one from my own. 



A. — Cobar to the Bogan River, above Nyngan, N.S.W. — 



In view of the prominence of the question of hybridisation of Eucalypts . . . (here comes a 

 passage printed in Part LII, p. 65). These are points of circumstantial evidence which suggest 

 hybridisation. There is one feature in which this tree more nearly resembles the Ironbark than the Box, 

 and it is in regard to the colour of the sap (wood), which is a yellowish-green, similar to Ironbark, while 

 that of the Box is white. In general appearance the tree is much like E. affinis, but the fruits separate 

 them. It is also like the doubtful tree at Liverpool. The chief flowering time of E. sideroxylon in the 

 west is about April and May, but flowers can generally be found before and after those months. I have 

 seen it flowering at Cabramatta in January and July. E. Woollsiana flowers about February and March, 

 but flowers of this species have been collected in May in the same locality as that in which E. sideroxylon 

 was then flowering. I am not able to state the flowering time of the tree which looks half Box and half 

 Ironbark, for though a very few flowers were collected in June, buds were found in September, which 

 seemed to indicate that the trees would be flowering in October. The scarcity of the tree makes it difficult 

 to arrive at a definite, conclusion in the matter. It is no part of my purpose to try and prove that the 

 tree in question is a hybrid, but simply to offer observations which may assist in settling the question. 

 I have handed specimens to Mr. Deane, who will probably investigate this species. 



(R. H. Cambage in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. , xxv, 716, 1900.) (I was then in 

 Europe at the time, and Mr. Deane handed me the specimens on my return. J.H.M.) 



B. — Mr. Cambage is travelling from Mount Hope to Parkes, and is on the Melrose 

 road, approaching Condobolin : — 



Finding E. sideroxylon and E. Woollsiana growing together between the three and four-mile posts, 

 T searched for the supposed hybrid or Ironbark-Box, and succeeded in finding a few trees on the eastern 

 side of the road. None were growing within sight from the road, and had their presence not been 

 suspected, they would have been passed unnoticed. They were in every respect similar to those found 

 north of Nymagee, and mentioned in a previous paper (Part II). These trees can generally be at once 

 detected by their bark, it being rougher than the Box and smoother than the Ironbark, and usually is 

 somewhat of a yellowish-brown colour, especially towards the upper part of the trunk." (Proc. Linn. Soc. 

 N.S.W., xxvi, 324, 1901). 



C. — Mr. Cambage is now between Barmedman and Temora : — 



The Eucalypts were represented by E. Woollsiana, E. sideroxylon, E. melliodora (increasing in 

 quantity), E. tereticornis and var. dealbata (E. dcalbata), one tree of E. affinis, and three of Ironbark Box 

 similar to the reputed hybrid of Nymagee. 



E. Woollsiana, which is known locally as Black Box. was being cut for railway sleepers. Finding 

 t on a ridge near Barmedman with E. sideroxylon, I searched a considerable area for the questionable 



