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SO orbicular. A few were found growing on the flat land, but 

 their home seemed to be on the hills. Some were 50 feet high, 

 with a diameter of 4 feet in a few instances. 



In comparing these trees with the Victorian and Bathurst Red 

 Box, they appear to more nearly resemble the former, but this is 

 chiefly owing to their having box bark covering the trunk and 

 limbs. The fruit might belong to either, while, from a cursory 

 examination, the red timber of all three appears the same. In 

 foliage, however, the Kyamba trees closely resemble the Bathurst 

 Red Box, which has been described by R. T. Baker under the 

 name E. ovalifoUa (these Proceedings, 1900, p. 680). The line of 

 demarcation, which may readily be noted in the field, between 

 the Victorian and Bathurst Red Box, is that the former has in 

 general fairly large, orbicular, somewhat coriaceous leaves, and a 

 box bark on trunk and branches; while the latter has oval to 

 lanceolate leaves, and a smooth gum-tree bark except for a few 

 feet near the base where it is flaky and somewhat of the nature 

 of box bark. But in investigating the Red Box from Kyamba 

 towards Tumbarumba, and again at Tumut, it was often found 

 impossible to satisfactorily determine where a particular form 

 should be placed, for while the former had the Victorian bark 

 and the Bathurst foliage, those on the Gilmore side of Tumut 

 were not constant as regards the bark, some having box bark 

 all over the trunk, while that of others was chiefly smooth, but 

 all had the foliage of the Bathurst trees rather than that of the 

 Victorian. On the north side of Tumut, however, they were for 

 the most part typical Bathurst Red Box both in bark and foliage, 

 and the species throughout the district was known as Round-leaf 

 Box or Round-leaf Gum. It would be a work of very great 

 botanical interest to study any changes that may take place in 

 these trees over the area extending from Tumut to Albury, hav- 

 ing in view the question as to whether there are two distinct 

 species in this locality or only one. For previous remarks concern- 

 ing this species, see these Proceedings, 1902, p. 571. 



After leaving Kyamba the ascent is considerable, and the 

 change of vegetation is immediately noticed. A stunted form of 



