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It is considered to be the toughest of Western Australian 
vvoods and the honey produced by the flowers is good. 
1 found it at Lower King River, Porongorups, Kalgan 
Plains, etc. 
31.— E. calophylla (R. Br.). 
The commonest “ Red Gum ” of Western Australia. 
It is reputed to flower every alternate year, and it yields 
the best honey. 
The leaves slightly perfoliate in the young state, there is 
caoutchouc in the young leaves. 
Miss Bussell, of Ellensbrook, informed me that Red Gum 
blossom is called “ Booneet ” by the blacks. They state that 
when it is in flower the Groper comes into the reef, so that the 
blacks can spear them. They make a somewhat similar observa- 
tion in regard to the plant they call “ Whale’s Eye ' ( Candollea 
cuneiformis, Labill.). 
In bark and general appearance the Red Gum resembles 
the Bloodwoods of the East. Red Gum is a pale coloured timber 
with abundant gum-veins (in this respect also resembling Blood 
wood). 
I noticed fruit cases made with J arrah ends and Red Gum 
sides. At a little distance the pale wood in a fruit case resembles 
Pine. 
32. — E. pleurocarpa (Schauer). (A. tetragona, F. v. M.) 
The seedlings have the leaves decussate, glandular and 
glandular-hairy on branches and along margins of leaves, and 
also on the backs of the midribs. The branches are very square 
and the whole plant reeks with oil. 
The leaves when young always stalked — flattened stalked 
and the young foliage is plum-coloured. 
It is a shrub, always straggly, sometimes attaining a height 
of xo feet. It is known as “ White Mar lock, and is a striking 
object. 
Owing to the dazzling whiteness of the plants, the cream 
coloured flowers are by no means conspicuous, neither aie they 
large. The colour of the filaments is cream, the anthers are 
small, and the stamens are in bundles (Eudesmiae). 
It is common from Hopetoun to near Ravensthorpe, also 
common on the Kalgan Plains. _ 
33.— E. eudesmoides (F. v. M.). 
A White Gum, a smooth-barked straggling tree of 20 feet, 
with a diameter of 9 inches and very little scaly bark. As a 
rule seen as a bush. 
Wood pale chocolate brown towards the heart, but most ot 
it white. 
Branchlets brown, giving the tree a brownish cast. 
Juvenile leaves lanceolar, rarely broad. 
