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I reiterate that I could not find any botanical difference 
in flowers and fruits between this and the “ Flat-topped ate,” 
but the Mallet is invariably smooth-barked and valuable as a 
tan-bark, while the “ Flat-topped Yate ” has a rough bark, which 
is economically valueless at present. 
I propose the variety name astringens for the Mallet, as it 
seems very desirable to have a distinctive name for it, and I 
give a few notes on the tree. 1 will take another opportunity of 
dealing with the Mallet from an economic point of view, for I 
spent a good deal of time investigating it. 
It is a Gum, i.e., it has a smooth bark in contrast to that of 
the Swamp Yate. It is erect in habit. The bark has more or 
less of a leaden colour externally, and as the older skin cracks 
and flakes away, it becomes in patches almost white. It usually 
contains a more or less well defined layer of brown kino which 
is quite evident to the eye, and the fracture discloses such, lhe 
presence of this kino is used as a diagnostic character in the 
trade. 
The timber is tough, and of a pale brown colour. It exudes, 
particularly when wounded, a friable kino of a brown colour. 
The sucker leaves are broadish and slightly glaucous. 
Swamp Y ate and Mallet sometimes grow side by side and yet 
preserve their individuality. 
Mallet strippers and others whom I have consulted over 
large areas, pooh-pooh the idea of the two trees being identical. 
We have also what I call Mallet Scrub. It is specifically 
identical with the Swamp Yate and Mallet tree, but it forms 
dense masses of spindly stems where I saw it, and I saw it in 
many places on the Kalgan River and plains ; it is not of an> 
size, and affords another instance of a tall tree being represented 
by a shrubby form. 
I refer this Mallet Scrub to E. occidentalis. 
Var. macrandra, var. nov. (E. macrandra, F. v. M.) 
Forms a thicket of Marlock 4-8 feet high on a slope of Gaal- 
gugup Hill, Kalgan Plains. 
Suckers bright green on both sides, ovate acuminate, appar- 
ently similar to those of E. occidentalis. 
Branches brittle. Very long opercula, bulging a little at 
the top. 
Fruits conoid, slightly angled, not urceolate or scarcely so, 
usually three valved, capitate or with very short pedicels. Tips 
of valves not exsert, or only slightly so. 
“ E. macrandra, F. v. M. ( B . FI. iii, 235) is an extreme form 
of E. occidentalis, exhibiting elongated calyces on hardly any 
stalklets with very long stamens, and generally smaller fruits 
with very^ short fruit valves ” (“ Eucalyptographia, under E. 
occidentalis ). 
