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are more exposed, it has smooth, clean stems (say 3 inches) with 
the leafy branches coming less close to the ground. 
Var. dumosa, F. v. M. 
I collected it rarely on the Kalgan Plains, also at 9-mile Tank, 
near Hopetoun, and Desmond, near Ravensthorpe. I 
At Dongara, not far from the beach, is a dense growth of 
slender White Gums, ribbony at butt, which reminds one of 
dense Mallee, but not true Mallee, 20-25 feet high, trunk 4 inches 
diameter. Wood very tough, a little brown at heart. Operculum 
a little ribbed. Broad coarse suckers. It is very close to typical 
incrassata, certainly a connecting link. 
Var. conglobata. 
This variety occurs not unplentifully at Kalgan Plains, 
Hopetoun and Esperance. Specimens from the two latter places 
have the fruits unusually large and with the rim well defined. 
10. E. striaticalyx (W. V. F.). 
This Journ. i, 20 (Majq 1904). 
I found this species at Milly’s Soak, near Cue, one of the 
type localities, and following are the notes taken by me on the 
spot. { 
E. striaticalyx is far less numerous than E. microtheca , and 
is on the edge of the microtheca belt. Called “ York Gum " by 
local people, but they are free and easy with their names for 
trees. It was plentiful on a donga. Stumps are now seen 12-18 
inches in diameter between Milly’s Soak and Jack’s Well, and it 
was formerly extensively cut for firewood, but the neighbourhood 
of Milly was mad., a recreation reserve and the remaining trees 
were saved. 
Tree of 30-40 feet. Bark dark grey or blackish, flaky, thin, 
yellow inside covering the whole of the trunk and part of the 
branches. 
Timber very hard, pinky pale brown or pale brown when 
fresh. Rather erect in habit. Would be called a Black Box 
in Eastern Australia. Neither Mr. Fitzgerald nor I found flowers, 
but I collected timber and juvenile leaves, which he did not. 
In my opinion this is a variety of E. incrassata. The juvenile 
leaves are as nearly as possible the same as those of var. dumosa 
collected by me at Dongarra. The Dongarra trees are large, so 
are those of the same species at Kangaroo Island, South Aus- 
tralia The Milly’s Soak trees are exceptionally large for E 
incrassata , so are those of the two localities I have quoted. The 
timbers of the two species appear to be similar. 
The fruits are those of E. incrassata, while the ribs of the 
opercula are characteristic of those of E. incrassata. 
I shall be glad if any correspondent can favour me with 
flowers, but at present I see no grounds for separating it from 
the protean and widely diffused E. incrassata, Labill. 
