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2. With E. aecedens W. V. Fitzgerald. 



Mr. Schock, the Collector of the Forest Department of Western Australia, calls 

 E. Lane-Poolei " Powder-bark Wandoo. " Both species are White Guns, with white, 

 powdery barks, and the timbers have some external resemblance. The sylvicultural 

 conditions of the two trees require to be worked out. As to the use of the term 

 " Powder-bark," Part XXXIV, p. 101, of this work may be referred to. If we turn 

 to Plate 142 of the same Part, and compare it with figures 4 and 8 of Plate 74, which 

 in part depict E. Lane-Poolei, it will be seen that the two species have no close botanical 

 affinity. 



3. With E. Oldfieldii F.v.M. 



The affinity of this species is with E. Oldfiehln, which included E. Drummondn 

 Benth.. a species which in Part XVII of this work I erroneously followed Mueller in 

 suppressing. I have shown, in Part XLJ, how these two species differ. The affinity 

 of E. Lane-Poolei is with E. Drummondii rather than with E. Oldfieldii sensu strictu. 

 E. Oldfieldii is a Mallee~wii h fruits in threes, while E. Lane-Poolei is a tree of considerable 

 size, -with fruits up to six in the head. The buds and leaves, both juvenile and mature, 

 are very different. 



4. With E. Drummondii Benth. 



This species, of which but little is known in the field, is described from the York 

 district as " a small tree of about 20 feet, with trunk and branches smooth, whitish- 

 buff, with a few brown semi-detached scales of dead bark." Additional field-notes are 

 very desirable, but it would appear that E. Lane-JPpolei is a different tree, and a 

 Powder-bark. 



Comparison, however, with figures 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 of Plate 74 {E. Drummondii), 

 together with a good specimen of the type of this species, is sufficient to show that it 

 and E. Lane-Poolei (figures 4 and 8 of Plate 74) are sufficiently different. The leaves 

 of E. Drummondii are commonly, perhaps preponderatingly, ovate-lanceolate, the buds 

 more ovoid, with the opercula longer than the calyx-tube; the fruits are smaller, and 

 very different. 



5. With E. Campaspe S. le M. Moore. 



It is interesting to note a resemblance in the very thick, hemispherical operculum 

 of E. Canifasfe, but the anthers are different, and so are the fruits and other characters. 

 But one so frequently receives, particularly from distant places, botanical specimens 

 which are quite fragmentary, and a hint which may put one on one's guard may 

 be useful. 



6. With E. oleosa F.v.M. 



In its anthers it belongs to_the Platyantherae, which includes E. oleosa and its 

 allies. The species are, however, very different in many other respects, but endeavour 

 will be made to discuss these relationships when the seedlings of all the species are brought 

 into comparison. 



