470 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
It is subject to destruction by white ants and dry rot when standing 
long in the ground. 
Mr. Allen Ransome tested a sample of this wood sent from 
Victoria to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. ‘ During the 
trials a sleeper was adzed and bored; but for boring especially, 
the wood seems very hard. A panel was also passed through the 
planing-machine, but, owing to the sample being very cross- 
grained, the results were not good.” 
The Rev. Dr. Woolls points out that this species is indicative 
of good grazing country. 
I have assumed that the “Box’’ timber tested by Captain 
Ward (Sydney Mint Experiments, 1858) belongs to this species. 
It came from Singleton. Specific gravity, 1.230; value of E, 
538,800; of S, 2,445. 
A specimen called “White Box,” or ‘Grey Box,’ from 
Victoria, in the Museum, is hard and tough, of very close grain, 
and of a brown colour. A sample of timber (No. 10, London 
Exhibition of 1862, and No. 102, Paris Exhibition of 1855) is in 
this Museum, and very probably belongs to this species. Itisa 
light buff coloured timber, heavy, very hard, tough, and durable. 
In the catalogue it is called ‘Illawarra Box,” and its aboriginal 
name is given as ‘‘Gnooroo-warra.” Height, 120 to 18oft.; 
diameter, 48 to 72in., and described as “‘a tree with magnificent 
timber, of first-rate quality for size, hardness, toughness and 
durability.” 
Diameter, 20 to 40in.; height, 50 to 6oft. 
Eastern South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and 
Southern Queensland. 
284. Eucalyptus largiflorens, 7.v.47., (Syn. Z. pendula, A. Cunn., 
E. bicolor, A. Cunn. (the name of the species in B.F].) ; £. 
hemastoma, Mig. non Smith); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 
214. 
This tree bears the names of ‘ Cooburn,” ‘ Box,” ‘Black Box,” 
“Yellow Box,” ‘‘ Bastard Box” (workmen supposing it to be a cross. 
between “Box” and ‘‘Grey Gum”), ‘‘ Grey Box,” and “Ironbark.” It is 
also called ‘‘ Slaty Gum,”’ from the grey and white patches on the bark. 
