624 ON THE EUCALYPTS OF N.S.W., PART VI., 



"The alluvial portion of the margin of the Darling is narrow, 

 and in most places overgrown with the Dwarf Box " (Mitchell's 

 Three Exped. i. 302). 



" . . . the trees which grew along the banks of the Lachlan. 

 All were of the Dwarf Box kind, named Goborro by the natives, 

 a sort of Eucalyptus which usually grows by itself on the lower 

 margins of the Darling and Lachlan, and other parts subject to 

 inundation, and on which the occasional rise of the waters is 

 marked by the dark colour i-emaining on the lower part of tlie 

 trunk" {Op. cit. ii. 30). 



" Clumps of trees of the Flooded Box or ' JNlarura ' of the 

 natives appeared occasionally (near the Lachlan) in and about the 

 many hollows in the surface " (ii. 49). 



"The small kind (of Eucalyptus) covered with a rough bark, 

 and never exceeding the size of fruit trees in an orchard, and 

 called, I believe, by Mr. Oxley, the Dwarf Box, but by the natives 

 Gobon-o, grows only on plains subject to inundation, and it 

 usually bears on the lower part of the trunk the mark of the 

 water by which it is at times surrounded. Between the Goborro 

 and the Yarra (E. rostrata) there seems this difference : the Yarra 

 grows only on the banks of rivers, lakes and ponds, from the 

 water of which the roots derive nourishment; but when the trunk 

 itself has been too long immersed, the tree dies, as appeared on 

 various lakes and in reedy swamps on the Lachlan. The Goborro, 

 on the contrary, seldom grows on the banks of a running stream, 

 but seems to thrive in inundations, however long their duration " 

 (ii. 55). 



E. largijlorens is known as " Coolibar " on the Diamantina, 

 Queensland, according to Dr. T. L. Bancroft. " Coolibah " and 

 " Coolybar " ai-e other spellings, and " Coolabah " is the name of 

 a station on the Great "Western line, 424 miles from Sydney, 

 named after the trees : see E. microtlteca l^elow, to which species 

 the name Coolibah now properly belongs. 



E. Behriana, F.v.M. 



This does not appear to be a strong species, apparently con- 

 necting with E. hemiphloia on the one hand and E. largijlorens 



