BY HENRY DEANE AND J. H. MAIDEN. 623 



Bentham marked it, doubtfully, amygdalina. Latterly interest 

 in the tree was revived by the collection of similar specimens on 

 the plaius near Baradine, N.S.W., by Mr. W. Forsyth. One of 

 us has recently visited the Narrabri district, and has obtained a 

 complete series of specimens, which not only show that Mueller's 

 view was correct, but that this extreme narrowness of the leaves 

 •and smallness of the fruits is not constant, passing into the normal 

 form. Under all the circumstances, and as smallness of the fruits 

 is a character of this species, it seems scarcely desirable to name 

 this graceful, narrow-leaved, small-fruited form, distinct as it 

 appears at first sight. It may perhaps be Mueller's var. parvijlora 

 (B.Fl. iii. 215), of which we have not seen a specimen. 



Then we have a broad-leaved form in which the leaves are 

 frequently one inch broad, and say .3 inches long, thick ("leaves 

 rather thin," B.Fl.) rigid, lustreless and even glaucous. Often 

 there is a yellowish cast of twigs, midribs, buds and foliage 

 generally. This yellowish cast is so marked in some trees that 

 we have known them to have been called " Yellow Box " in con- 

 sequence, and hence confused with E. melliodora. The transit to 

 normal largijiorens is perfect. The broad-leaved forms are best 

 developed in the extreme west of the colony, and they are, in 

 the absence of flowers or fruits, sometimes difficult to discriminate 

 from the broader-leaved forms of E. microtheca. 



"Gobori'o," or "Goborra," is a tree frequently referred to by 

 Mitchell ("Three Expeditions"), and is doubtless E. largijiorens, 

 from the quotations which follow. Specimens of Goborro sent to 

 us by two reliable correspondents ai-e E. largijiorens, and we 

 think it desirable to finally settle the nomenclature of so important 

 a tree. 



1* In a letter Forester Kidston says: — The tree called Goborro by 

 the aboriginals is commonly known as "White Box" by the 

 splitters all over Riverina. It fi-equents the ridgy and gravelly 

 soiled parts, and grows with a straighter bole and straighter grain 

 than any of the other trees called Box. The leaves are pendulous, 

 and narrower than the Biml)il." {E. populifolia). 



