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bud (November). I found a few opercula on the ground. They 
are rather flat. 
The young leaves are decussate or nearly so. 
19. — E. gomphocephala, DC. 
Tuart reminds one of the “ Box ” trees ( hemiphloia ) of Eastern 
Australia, except that the branches are not smooth and therefore 
have no ribbons. The resemblance is closer to E. Stuartiana, 
“ Apple tree ” of Eastern Australia. 
The wood is pale coloured with a yellowish cast. 1 found it 
cut extensively at Ludlow and other places in the Busselton 
district. It is confined to the limestone strip. 
20. — E. megacarpa (F. v. M.). 
A medium sized tree known as “ Blue Gum.” 
Bark like a White Gum or perhaps like a Grey Gum ( E . 
punctata of eastern New South Wales) to some extent. Bark 
rather thick. Wood not hard, with large gum veins (brown 
kino) and brownish towards the heart. A gouty useless timber 
tree. 
Mr. Percy Murphy, who visited Western Australia a few 
months before me, called it “ Flooded Gum.” He got it at 
Karridale, near Cape Leeuwin, and describes it as 2 ft. 6 in. in 
diameter, a stunted tree not used locally ; grows on top of hills. 
Close to sea. 
The trees I found between Princess Royal Harbour and the 
granite rocks on the ocean side known locally as “ The Caves,” 
were growing in damp, low-lying sandy land. 
21.— E. Oldfieldii (F. v. M.). 
Mueller’s “ Eucalyptographia ” includes under this species 
E. Drummondii, Benth. (B. FI. iii, 237) as being a form smaller 
in all its parts. 
I collected E. Oldfieldii at Minginew, where Dr. Diels col- 
lected it. 
It has an ovoid operculum, more or less rostrate. Its juvenile 
foliage is petiolate and ovate, not broad, with the intramarginal 
vein distinctly removed from the edge. 
It is a stiff bush of 8 or 10 feet, with many thin stems close 
together, forming an impenetrable scrub, but not a true Mallee. 
It is not a timber tree. 
Mr. Max Koch (his 1256) sent it to me from Cowcowing, 
“ a small tree or shrub with a ragged bark.” 
Var. Drummondii (?). 
An interesting form I refer to this species was collected by 
me at 66J mile-post, Pindar, Murchison line. 
Many-stemmed, 10-15 or 20 feet. Tough wood. Peculiar 
bark, falling off in narrow longitudinal pieces, giving it a striped 
