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To; Acting Inspector-General of Forests has been kind 
enough to forward me fruits and intermediate leaves of the Red 
Tingle Tingle from which it appears that the tree does not really 
differ from the Tingle Tingle I have described. 
Tingle Tingle timber is undoubtedly a valuable one, local 
in distribution; and further enquiries in regard to it are desirable. 
In saying this I have no doubt that it is a good species. 
24.— E. patens (Benth.). 
The common “ Black butt ” of South-Western Australia. 
In my trip it first appeared at about five miles out from 
Yallingup, going to the Margaret River. It is a large tree, grows 
in damp land, and has rough bark all over the trunk and branches. 
Said bark is soft rather than hard, thick, greyish black. 
In Western Australia such a bark is called “ Blackbutt ” ; in the 
Eastern States it would be called “.Woolly Butt.” The tree 
reminded me somewhat of Jarrah in general appearance, but 
J arrah bark is less rough. 
The juvenile leaves opposite or ternate, from broad to narrow- 
ovate, large, strictly sessile, cordate and the broader ones auricu- 
late, mostly abruptly drawn at the top into a narrow point often 
J of an inch long, the thickened margins indistinctly and irregu- 
larly crenulate. They have not been previously described and 
were sent by Mr. Max Koch from the Preston Valley. 
25. -E. Todtiana (F. v. M ). 
This is a species with a trunk 3 feet in diameter at South 
Perth. It has narrow juvenile leaves. The branches are very 
brittle. It is not a commercially valuable timber tree, having 
a short trunk, with rather brittle, non-durable timber. 
26. — E. rudis (Endl.). 
A common White, River or Swamp Gum of Western Aus- 
tralia, fond of moist localities, and strongly reminiscent of the 
eastern E. Gumi, Hook. f. 
27. — E. redunca (Schauer). 
The typical form of the species is known as “ Black Marlock,” 
and is a dwarf scrubby shrub spreading freely over the Kalgan 
Plains. Juvenile foliage broad, ovate-acuminate, petiolate 
venation well marked, intramarginal vein at a considerable dis- 
tance from the edge, pinnately veined. Long opercula. Cream 
flowers whose filaments dry brownish or brownish red. Said to 
be a constant associate of Poison (Gastrolobmm velutinum, Lindl.). 
Var. elata, Benth. 
This is the “ White Gum.” 
It is the commonest tree about Broome Hill, where it attains 
a good size. The local people speak of it as the most valuable 
timber in Western Australia. 
