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AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Stuartiana F.v.M. (E. Bridgesiana R. T. Baker). 



" The herbarium material of this species is so similar to that of E. Bridgesiana that on my first 

 examination it was included under that species. 



" My field observations since that date, and the acquisition of further material such as timber and 

 oil, have convinced me that the two trees are quite different, and should not be included under the same 

 name. Mr. W. Baeuerlen, indeed, who has known the trees for very many years, has always held that the 

 two were different in specific characters. 



" E. Bridgesiana is known vernacularly as ' Apple ' and ' Woolly-butt,' but this tree as ' Apple-top 

 Box.' As stated above, the foliage, fruits, and flowers certainly resemble those of the former species, but 

 there the similarity ends. The bark is a true box-bark, but the timber is quite unlike that of a box. . . . 



" The bark has not an essential oil as pertains to E. nova-anglica and E. Bridgesiana. 

 " Although it has a regular light-coloured grey box bark, yet the appearance of the tree is more 

 like that of an ' Apple-tree ' (Angophora), hence the local name of ' Apple-top Box.' 



" (It has) ' A pale-coloured, soft, specifically light timber, open in the grain, and perhaps to be 

 regarded as porous. It has not the broad sapwood of E. Bridgesiana Baker. It seasons well, and is suited 

 for cabinet work, as it closely resembles in colour, weight, and texture the timber of Angophora intermedia 

 DC. It is much superior to that of E. Bridgesiana." (Original description.) 



For E. Stuartiana see Part XXIV, plates 101 and 102, when it will be seen that 

 the resemblance between the two species is considerable. The closest resemblance is 

 to var. grossa, which has the coarsest juvenile foliage in the species. Morphologically 

 it is not easy to separate the two species, but they differ, as Mr. Baker has pointed out, 

 in timber and oil ; also in their canopies, to mention no other differences. 



2. With E. elceophora F.v.M. (E. Cambagei Deane and Maiden). 



" It differs from E. Cambagei Deane and Maiden, in the superiority of its timber and the inferiority 

 of its oil, and the shape of its fruits; and from E. nova-anglica Deane and Maiden in the bark, colour of 

 timber, and oil." (Original description.) 



For E. elceophora see Part XIX, Plates 82 and 83. In E. angophoroides the 

 juvenile leaves are more uniformly rounded, and the large intermediate leaves are 

 common and characteristic. In E. elceophora the operculum is, as a rule, only half the 

 length of the calyx-tube, while the fruit is sessile, cylindroid, and, as a rule, angled or 

 ribbed. At the same time .the fruits of the two species are sometimes sufficiently 

 similar as to necessitate caution. 



Miscellaneous. 



" It has little affinity with such Boxes as E. herniphloia F.v.M., E. Woollsiana 

 Baker, E. conica Deane and Maiden, E. pendula A. Cunn. (E. largifiorens F.v.M.), although 

 it appears to be a connecting link with these and what are known as Bastard Boxes 

 such as E. Cambagei Deane and Maiden, and E. bicolor A. Cunn. : ' (Original description.) 



What E. Woollsiana R. T. Baker is, will be stated in Part XLVII after repro- 

 duction of all the Plates, and revision of the evidence. It is a synonym, in my view. 

 E. bicolor A. Cunn. is a western New South Wales species with reddish brown timber, 

 and very different from E. angophoroides. It has E. pendula A. Cunn. and E. largifiorens 

 F.v.M. as synonyms, and has been more than once shown in the present work. 



