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RANGE. 



It is confined to south West Australia so far as we know at present. Specific 

 localities are : — ■ 



Happy Valley, Jarrahwood Railway, Western Australia. Generally in poor, 

 sandy country (Forest Ranger W. Donovan, July, 1912). 



" Mountain Red Gunv' Height 30-40 feet and up to 12-18 inches in diameter. 

 Trees are of a stunted nature, and the wood is very faulty. Grows in ironstone country 

 in the mountains with Jarrah, between Busselton and Jarrahwood. (Dr. F. Stoward, 

 No. 108.) 



AFFINITIES. 



The affinity at once suggested is E. ficifolia F.v.M., but the filaments of the new 

 species are white, and the fruits are of a different shape, viz., smaller arid more spherical, 

 those of E. ficifolia being somewhat cylindroid. The seeds of the latter species also 

 are winged, its bark is more fibroiis and its timber paler; it lacks the rich cedar-coloured 

 timber of the present species. 



It is also allied to E. calophytta R.Br., a much larger tree. The three species 

 are closely related, and all have very large, handsome cotyledon leaves, and the young 

 leaves soon become more or less peltate, but the character is apparently most common 

 in E . calo-phjlla. 



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