454 J. H. MAIDEN. 



branches often pendulous, bark persistent on stem and 

 branches, dark grey, rather thick, rough and longitudinally 

 fissured, often of a fibrous texture, timber red, hard and 

 tough." 



This could also be taken as a description of the tree as 

 we usually find it in eastern Australia, but (op. cit., p. 53), 

 we have on the Murchison River, (limestone and vicinity 

 of fresh water), and also in tropical coastal Western Aus- 

 tralia, an undoubted white gum with a white-washed bark. 

 The environments which have brought about these changes 

 have not yet been explained. Perhaps we have a second 

 species. 



14. E. miniata A. Ounn. See Crit. Rev. iii, 38. 



"A tree of 50 — 100 feet high, trunk to 40 feet, diameter 

 to 3 feet ; bark greyish to reddish, woolly-fibrous, rough 

 and persistent on the lower half of the trunk sometimes 

 covering the whole of it; limbs always white and smooth; 

 timber red, very rough, hard, — flowers at a height of two 

 feet — an inhabitant of poor sandy soil." (Fitzgerald MSS.) 



The above notes refer to the tree as it occurs in North 

 West Australia. 



15. E. Mooreana(W.V.F.) Maiden. ThisJournal,XLVii,221. 



The following is supplementary information from Mr. 

 Fitzgerald's MSS.:— "Height 30 feet, trunk 10 feet, 

 diameter 1 \ feet, bark smooth, white and persistent, timber 

 reddish, tough and moderately hard. ...In sandy soil over- 

 looking sandstone and quartzite. Occasionally the leaver 

 are quite connate and the calyces concrete. ..Affinity to E. 

 pulverulenta Sims." 



16. E. Naudiniana F.v.M. See Crit. Rev. ii, 79. 



Mr. E. D. Merrill, Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila,. 

 P.I., draws my attention to the fact that Eugenia binacag> 





