BY TKE TIEY. DE. WOOLLS, D.B., F.L.S. 625 



Bastard Box, is not inaptly described by Smith : " JE. ojwrculo 

 conico tereti Icevissimo memhranaceo caJi/ce lafiore triploq^ii^e longiore, 

 umheJUs lateral ihus soJitariis, foliis lanceolatis obliquis.'" The 

 fruit, which is well marked in all the varieties of the species bv 

 the valves protruding far beyond the rim, appears to have been 

 unknown. This species, the commonest of the trees in the 

 County of Cumberland, is the ordinary Grum of the bush, but 

 perhaps it varies more in the shape of the leaves, the length of 

 the oj^erculum, and the size of the fruit than any other Eucalypt, 

 and that too in individual trees occurring between Sydney and 

 Parramatta. Mr. Bentham reckons three marked varieties of 

 this species latifolia, hracliijcoDjs^ and hrevifolia, and he remarks 

 what is strictly true, that the common form with the long oper- 

 culum resembles the rostrate varieties of E. sideropliloia and H. 

 resinifera. With the same also he unites E. punctata (J} C.) -^ 

 but Baron Mueller, in the sixth Decade of his EucaJyptographia, 

 has restored this tree (popularly known as Leather Jacket or 

 Hickory) to the dignity of a species, differing as it does in the 

 valves of the capsule, the length of the operculum, and the 

 venation of the leaves. Though allied to the Elooded Grum of 

 the interior (^E. rostrata), the species are perfectly distinct. 



4. E. resinifera, (Sm. Act. Soe. Linn., Lond., 3, p. 284, and 

 White, itin. 231 cum icon.) is thus described: ''^ E. operculo 

 conico tereti coriaceo caJijce duplo lonrjiore, umbellis lateraJihus 

 solitariis.'^ The specific name was originally intended to apply 

 to the form of Ironbark which produces the Gum Kino of com- 

 merce, but as the original specimens were transmitted to Europe 

 without fruit, some confusion has arisen as to the identification 

 of the species. Before the publication of our Plora, it was usual 

 to apply the term resinifera to the Ironbark called E. sideropliloia; 

 but now that Mr. Bentham in the third volume of the JFlora, and 

 subsequently Baron Mueller, in first Decade of his Eucalypto- 

 grapliia, have appropriated the specific name to the Eed or Forest 

 Mahogany, it map be more convenient to speak of that as E. 



