70 J. H. MAIDEN. 



3. E. macrocarpa Hook. See this Journ. lii, 506. 

 Mr. O. E. Lane Poole, Conservator of Forests in Western 

 Australia, says this beautiful species is known as "Mottle- 

 car" by the aborigines of the Bolgart district, W.A. Mr. 

 W. F. Blakely has collected from the Botanic Gardens r 

 Sydney, suckers in which the alternate leaves are 1 \ inches 

 apart on the shoots. In other words, the broadly lanceolate 

 leaves which are very shortly petiolate to stem-clasping, 

 have the petioles \\ inches apart. 



4. E. marginata Sm. var. Staerii Maiden. 

 See this Journ. xlvii, 230. 

 Dr. F. Stoward, under No. Ill, April, May, 1917, send® 

 this form with the following note, "Stunted Black-butt r 

 tree 30 - 35 feet, up to two feet in diameter. Grows in the 

 Albany and Denmark districts in large and sandy flats, and 

 is of a stunted nature." 



Mr. C. E. Lane Poole points out the similarity of the 

 fruits to those of E. Tocltiana, but the anthers and the 

 timbers sharply separate the two species. The relation of 

 this proposed variety to the normal form (the Jarrah, E. 

 marginata) is worthy of local enquiry. 



5. The E. melanophloia F.v.M., complex. 

 See this Journ. xlvii, 233. 

 Following are two interesting forms: — 



A. " Growing about thirty chains from the bank of the Gwydir 

 River, away from the flooded area, on a small red soil ridge, with 

 Silver-leaf Ironbark (E. melanophloia). Coolabah (E. microtheca) 

 is growing in the next paddock about twenty chains away, but the 

 trees in the immediate neighbourhood are Silver-leaf Ironbark 

 and a few Poplar Box-trees (E. populifolia). One Ironbark tree 

 is growing within a few feet of the tree under observation. Th& 

 tree under observation has black bark, but not rough and corru- 

 gated like an Ironbark." Ph. Moree, Co. Courallie, on Mr. Soil- 

 ing's freehold. (W. M. Brennan, Forest Guard). 



