520 ON ECCALYPTUS B ICO LOR, A. CUNN., 



was quite justified in making two species, viz., E. pendida, 'Red 

 Box,' and E. bicolor, ' Bastard Box.' 



'* This latter species occurs all along the banks of the South 

 Creek" (These Proceedings, xxv., 666.) 



b. Note on E. parvijiora, F.v.M. 



This is a name only given as a synonym of E. hicolor, A. Cunn., 

 (in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 90) and it is referred to here in order 

 that it may be cleared up. It is the same as E. bicolor, A. Cunn., 

 var. parvifloi'a, F.v.M. (B.Fl. iii. 215), and is E. populifolia, 

 Hook., as noted by Mueller himself in Herb. Melb. It is doubt- 

 less the same as " var. parvijlora, Benth." (should be F.v.M. 

 '■ Eucalyptographia ' under E. largiflorens). 



1. E. bicolor, Duff, in ' Catal. of N.S.W. Forestry Exhibits,' 

 Melbourne, Adelaide, and other Exhibitions, is called " Slat}'- 

 Gum," and its timber is described as " hard, tough, strong, 

 durable, and said by experts to be one of the best hardwoods; 

 used for fencing, wheelwrights' work, bridges, railway sleepers, 

 and house building; plentiful. Hab. open forests south-western 

 river districts, Blue Mountains and the Darling River." 



It is evident that the above partly refers to E. bicolor, A. 

 Cunn., and to E. polyanthemos, Schauer, and it is only referred 

 to on the present occasion as the source whence "^. bicolor, Slaty 

 Cum," has crept into numerous official reports. 



2. E. pendula, Page. — This name was first published (name 

 only) in "Page's Prodromus; as a general nomenclature of all the 

 plants . . . cultivated in Southampton Botanic Gardens, by 

 William Bridgewater Page, London, 1818." 8vo. pp. 136. 



In Steudel's ' Nomenclator Botanicus ' (ed. ii. Yol. i. p. 600) 

 appears the simple entry " pendula, Page, Nov. Holl." I have 

 been unable to ascertain that Page's name is more than a nonien 

 nudum. 



3. E. pendula, A. Cunn. — In B.Fl. (iii. 215) this is quoted as 

 "A. Cunn. in Steud. Xom. Bot. Ed. 2." It is assumed to be a 

 synonym of E. pe^idula, Page. 



