D510 J. H. MAIDEN. 
the nuts (fruits), I could not say they were hard and fast rules, 
for an opinion formed at one bush was contradicted at the next. 
They are growing on open plain on yellow sand, grey sand and 
gravelly, with, I think, clay not very far below the surface; sand- 
plain pear trees (Xylomelum, J.H.M.) are also growing on the 
same ground. There is some of this Mallee near the railway, 
west from Dowerin, but I got these specimens about sixteen to 
‘eighteen miles north of Dowerin.” 
21. HK. SIDEROXYLON A. Ounn. See O.R., xii. 
The fruits are usually as figured at plate 55, but I have 
received from the Forestry Commission from near Hden, 
N.S.W., fruits as large as those of the related EH. leucoxylon 
F.v.M. var. macrocarpa J. KE. Brown, figured at 12c, pl. 56. 
22. HK. STOWARDI Maiden. This Journ. LI, 457. 
Some excellent specimens from Mr. O. A. Fauntleroy, 
Uberin Hill, Dowerin, W.A. (through Mr. W. C. Grasby), 
not only give an additional locality for a rare species, but 
enable me to indicate its affinity. 
At p. 460, I surmised that its closest affinity was H. 
occidentalis Kndl., and these specimens leave no doubt on 
the point. They have the angular filaments seen in that 
and allied species, and peculiar, I believe, to the Cornute. 
Mr. Fauntleroy also supplies a small log, which is quite 
smooth, with long, thin tough ribbons, and barely two 
inches in diameter for the most part, though where it is 
swollen, as the result of the boring of an insect, it is more 
than three. The colour of the small timber is white, vary- 
ing to pale brown in the centre. 
23. EH. VIRGATA Sieber. Syn. HE. LUEHMANNIANA F.v.M. 
Consequential changes will be that, as faras the synonymy 
proposed in the monograph of the species in C.R. ix, 273, 
is concerned, EH. obtusiflora DC., EH. stricta Sieb., and H. 
