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O. A. Fauntleroy of Dowerin in that State kindly sends, 

 through Mr. W. O. Grasby of the "Western Mail," Perth, 

 specimens with cream coloured filaments. He says "This 

 plant has varicoloured flowers, from red and pink to white. 

 It grows on dry country up to 12 feet in height. There are 

 two or three stems per plant." This is an addition to the 

 list of species with filaments of more than one colour. 



Mr. W. V. Fitzgerald says— "A tree of 25 feet with a 

 very crooked trunk of 10 feet; diameter 1 foot; bark greyish 

 to white, smooth; timber reddish, rather brittle; filaments 

 yellow or scarlet." (MSS.) Perhaps by "yellow" cream- 

 coloured is meant; by "scarlet" probably crimson is meant. 



8. E. Forrestiana Diels. Compare Oit. Rev. iii, 35 and 

 Plate 95. 



I have some specimens collected at Esperance in 1903 

 by Mr. Babington. The fruits are smaller and the wings 

 are thinner and proportionately wider than have been 

 described or figured. In Mr. Babington's fruits the width 

 (excluding the wings) is about 1 cm., and the width (includ- 

 ing the wings) about 1*5 cm., leaving the width of each 

 wing at 2-3 mm. 



9. E. GIGANTEA Hook. f. 



"I have repeatedly seen this species flowering profusely 

 when about 6 feet high, sometimes when not more than 3 

 feet, and on several occasions when it had reached a height 

 growth of between 2 and 3 feet. As this species rarely 

 suckers, it appeared to me that the early and profuse seed- 

 ing powers were a compensating characteristic of the 

 species." (W.A.W.deBeuzeville, Forest Assessor, Forestry 

 Commission, Sydney). 



In another letter Mr. de Beuzeville says: — "Regarding 

 your inquiry as to the state of the foliage of this species 

 when in the early flowering stage of two or three feet, I 



Cc— December 5, 1917. 



