This species infrequently affords an example of the not very 
frequent instances in which the broad juvenile leaves remain 
persistent, as regards shape, unto maturity, i.e., until the in- 
florescence of the plant. 
(b) Hopetoun. Here the shrubs are larger and coarser, 
with the operculum acuminate, bent, and longer than the calyx. 
Probably the var. (?) ro strata of Bentham. 
6. — E. oleosa (F. v. M.). 
The species was originally described from South Austialia> 
and I did not see much of the typical form in Western Australia. 
A small tree at Pindar (Murchison line) is nearly typical, 
It has a rough dark flaky bark and smooth limbs, the timber 
is dark (cigar) brown, but the tree is quite pipy, the timber is, 
however, darker than oleosa usually is, which is leddish biown, 
but that’ may be owing to the age of the tree. Only young buds 
and ripe fruit found, and very few trees were seen. 
Some small trees at Ravensthorpe, west of Esperance, have 
small fruits and are not very dissimilar to specimens of E. oleosa 
collected from localities of the type, but the juvenile foliage is 
remarkably narrow. This will be figured in part xv of my 
“ Critical Revision,” and is so narrow that it excites suspicion 
that we have here a different species, but the other characters 
are those of true E. oleosa , and we have already many instances 
of considerable variation in regard to juvenile foliage. The 
Ravensthorpe trees should be watched, as the specimens taken by 
me may prove to be extremes. 
At Comet Vale (via Kalgoorlie) I noticed a small erect, rigid 
gum, leaves very thick, fruits a little more pear-shaped than 
usual. In bud and ripe fruit. It is a coarse form of E. oleosa, 
and I did not find this particular form anywhere else. 
Var. longicornis (F. v. M.). “ A Morrel.” 
This form was described by Mueller in Fragm. xi, 14, and 
raised by him (with doubt) to 'the rank of a species under the 
name of E. longicornis in his " Report on the Forest Resources 
of Western Australia,” p. 12, and fig. 13. 
He says ” It agrees with the York Eucalypt [E. loxopheba 
or fcecunda) in its bark.” At p. 7 of the same work he describes 
the bark of the York Eucalypt as “ persistent and rough.” Of 
course, the latter is a well-known species. 
It is a glabrous form, and, in my view, it is identical with 
a tree called ” Poot.” 
My attention was first directed to “ Poot ” by Mr. Andrew 
Murphy, of Sydney, whose collector (Mr. Louis Dillon) sent him 
some seed from Broome Hill. This was in 1905, and I have 
never lost sight of the matter since, ft was described as a tree 
3 feet in diameter, the timber used for wheelwrights’ w-ork, and 
it does not split well. In my recent trip I visited Broome Hill 
