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E. melliodora has a very yellow inner bark and sapwood, with 

 longer and narrower and more pendulous leaves and fewer flowers. 

 E. polyanthemos has a white sap and red heart wood. E, 'polyan- 

 themos has comparatively narrow leaves at the top of the tree. 



c. With E. tereticornis, Sm. — Jn the field E. tereticornis and 

 E. 'polyanthemos when fully grown might very readily be con- 

 fused. The smooth, gnarled trunk, with the bark falling off in 

 patches or in ribbons is common to both species, and knowing 

 them so well I still sometimes considered it prudent to procure a 

 twig to decide the identity of a particular tree. The timber of 

 both trees is red, but the ordinary botanical characters of the 

 two species are very different. 



Range. 



Victoria. — '-''The Red Box (E. polyanthema) grows in places all 

 over Victoria. The timber is, however, as a rule rather small, 

 the boles and limbs crooked, in some places so much so, for 

 instance in the Havelock State Forest, as to be of no value but 

 for firewood. In parts of Gippsland it is larger, but there it 

 often becomes so hollow as to be a mere shell. Although the 

 wood is hard and durable, these defects cause it to be of little 

 economic value" (A. W. Howitt hi lilt.). 



"Red Box" with red timber and gnarled greyish boxy bark. 

 Euroa; Lilydale; Buchan, Gippsland. It grows on hillsides 

 (A. W. Howitt). 



Wangaratta, handsome, spreading trees, glaucous all over 

 (J.H.M.). hence sometimes called Grey Box. Mr. J. V. de Coque 

 wrote to me : — " The Victorian Grey Box, particularly about 

 Wangaratta, is remarkably durable and takes the place of Iron- 

 bark for railway bridges construction. I used nearly 500 piles 

 in the Myrtleford to Bright railway, all Grey Box and all pipy; 

 when piles are driven the practice is to plug the pipe holes." 



" Hill Box," Mt. Kosciusko Range, red wood (Findlay), pro- 

 bably on the Victorian side (National Herbarium, Melbourne). 



" 36. Eucalyptus polyanthemos, Schauer, I.e. n. 5. Beyond 

 Mount Disappointment (Ferd. Muell.)" is a note by Miquel in 

 Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 



