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leaves, of medium width, not specially narrow, with prominent, 

 spreading \'eins. Fruits subcorneal when dead ripe, with a defined 

 rim at the edge of the fruit, which sometimes shows a distinct 

 angle. Absolutely identical specimens are from Tomingley to 

 Narromine (Dubbo district). 



" Swamp Box," " White Box," and " Coolibah " on the Lachlan 

 (Forester Kidston). The same gentleman on another occasion 

 says: — "Long narrow leaves; a gnarled, tough, black box." It 

 has also been styled "Grey Box." "The Commom Box of the 

 Riverina." '• !N arrow -leaved Box " is a common name, of oljvious 

 meaning. 



At Murrumbidgerie (Dubbo disti'ict) it is known as " Coolil:)ah." 

 Mr. A. Murphy says of it : — " Similar to White Box (Jieviiphloia), 

 but a taller tree, the gum-limbs (smooth bark) come low down the 

 tree. A useful timber, similar to but harder than tliat of -E. 

 heniiphloia. Common on the Lachlan, beginning at Parkes." 



The species is common in the Darling country, and west towards 

 the South Australian and Queensland border. 



We have received two specimens (one in fruit and in young 

 bud, the other in young bud only) from Murtee holding, with the 

 note that sheep eat one whether as standing scrub or cut down, 

 but will not touch the other. The twigs appear to us to be 

 botanically identical, and the matter is certainly worthy of further 

 investigation. 



In the north-west part of the colony is a box, extensively 

 distributed, which had puzzled us a good deal because we had not 

 received complete material. Its foliage is pendulous, the leaves 

 shining and commonly 3 inches long and only | in. broad, remind- 

 ing one in this respect of the well-known WWga {Geijera parvijiora). 

 The fruits are small (about Tj^in. in diameter). In working at this 

 species at the National Herbarium, Melbourne, we came across a 

 specimen labelled by Leichhardt " Box bark, not Ironbark, 

 between Condamine and Severn, June, 1843." Leichhardt's 

 warning re Ironbark was to show that he had not confused it 

 with the narrow-leaved Ironbark (afterwards named F. crehra) 

 common in the district. Mueller referred it to E. largiflorens: 



