Ill 



2. With E. melliodora A. Cunn. 



The fruits are in shape and size and in the staminal ring a good deal like those of 

 E. melliodora. There is some similarity to this species in buds also. The timber is a 

 little darker than that of E. melliodora. 



3. With E. sideroxylon A. Cunn. 



The description of the timber after twenty years' exposure is reddish-brown, 

 doubtless distinctly darker in colour than when freshly cut. I have heard of it being 

 paler, but the cuts may not have been deep. The colour, in my view, is not in discord 

 with the assumption that E. sideroxylon may be one of the parents. The fruits are 

 smaller than those of E. sideroxylon, but show affinity to those of that species. 



E. melliodora A. Cunn. var. (See fig. 3, Plate 216.) 



Herewith are drawings which should be compared with the figures of E. melliodora 

 at Plate 61, Part XIV. Besides the differences from that species already given, I would 

 point out that the foliage is too rigid for normal E. melliodora, whose leaves are inclined 

 to be thin, also the buds are more pointed, which may, or may not, show a tendency 

 to E. sideroxylon. 



Although I still believe it to be a hybrid, I do not propose to give it a name, 

 because of its lack of distinctness, and therefore have named it E. melliodora var. for 

 the present. 



The specimen came from Murrurundi, New South Wales (J.H.M. and J. L. 

 Boorman, May. 1902), and is referred to in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxx, 495 (1905). 



