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Diameter, 6 to 8ft.; height, 100 to r2oft. 
Northern coast districts of New South Wales to Cleveland 
Bay (Queensland). 
295. Eucalyptus microtheca, 7.v.1Z., (Syn. £. brevifolia, F.v.M.; 
£. brachypoda, Benth.,—name of species in B.FI.); N.O., 
Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 223 (partly). 
Called ‘‘ Bastard Box” in Western New South Wales, and “ Black 
Box” in Queensland. This is the ‘‘ Flooded Box” of the country around 
the Gulf of Carpentaria. It is also called ‘‘ Narrow-leaved Box” and 
“Dwarf Box.” It has many aboriginal names. The following are some of 
them :—“ Callaille”? and “ Yathoo,” Murchison River (Western Australia) ; 
“Targoon,” Riverina (New South Wales) ; “‘ Jimbul Kurleah,” Cloncurry 
River, and other parts of Northern Queensland; ‘‘Coolybah,” or “ Coolibar,”? 
Western Queensland and about the Darling, New South Wales; ‘“ Goborra,”’ 
or “‘Goborro,” Western New South Wales; ‘‘ Koloneu,” Queensland. 
This wood is reddish-brown or reddish (near the outside, 
however, the colour is grey), and remarkably hard, heavy and 
elastic. Mons. Thozet speaks of it with figures not unlike walnut, 
but darker, heavier, and closer grained. It is useful in building, 
though perhaps too hard for cabinet-work. It is neither very much 
used nor valued. ‘‘ Piles made of the young trees have been used 
with advantage for the construction of the Great Northern Railway 
of Queensland.” (Thozet.) This and £. ¢ermznalis are the only 
Eucalypts in much of the western desert. 
Western and Northern Australia, alsoin the interior of South 
Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. 
296. Eucalyptus obliqua, Z’Hér., (Syn. LZ. gigantea, Hook. f., 
E. falcifolia, Mig. (partly); 2. nervosa, F.v.M.; £. hetero- 
phylia, Miqg.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.F1., iii., 204. 
A “Stringybark.” It is called ‘‘ Messmate”’ in Victoria because of its 
resemblance to #. macrorrhyncha. Other names are “Black Box” and 
“Ironbark Box,” because the wood and bark are very like those of Iron- 
bark, especially in old trees. Formerly called “ Woolgook,” or “ Wang- 
narra,” by the Yarra (Victoria) aboriginals, 
This is a most useful tree for general purposes, although it is 
by no means the hardest of the Gums. It grows very quickly. 
Owing to the length and straightness of its stem, and the unusually 
