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Timber. Its characteristics are its toughness, hardness, cross-grained, 

 non-fissile character, and its great strength. It is a pale hardwood, of a 

 very pale brown. It is used for the naves of wheels and heavy framing,, 

 and for the cogs of wheels, large screws, mauls, handles, shafts, poles of 

 drays, &c., which require a tough wood for their manufacture. In Victoria 

 it is in high repute for railway sleepers, and in that State and our own 

 for piles, girders, &c. It can be recommended with confidence to railway- 

 carriage builders and others who require a strong durable timber for 

 framing, &c. While usually sound in the coast districts, in the interior a 

 great drawback to this tree is its tendency to become hollow at a com- 

 paratively early age. It is certainly a valuable timber, one of the best of 

 our hardwoods. It forms an excellent fuel. 



Size. It varies a good deal in size. I have seen it 60 to 80 feet in height, 

 and even higher, with a stem-diameter of 3 or 4 feet, but it is not one of 

 our largest Eucalypts. 



Habitat. In one form or another it is found over a large area of this 

 State, from the coast-line away into the dry west. It also occurs ii). 

 Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia. In the two last States the 

 predominating form is variety aliens. The variety albens, the White Box 

 par excellence, is in i^ew South Wales mainly developed in a longitudinal 

 strip of country on the western slope of the Dividing Range. Roughly, 

 the western boundary would run through Corowa, Wagga Wagga, Temtora, 

 Parkes, Dubbo, and thence northerly to the Queensland border. Its eastern 

 boundary would run through, say, Tumut, Burrowa, Cowni, Orange; then 

 easterly to Rylstone, Singleton, Muswellbrook, and then northerly. The 

 typical form is found east of this. 



Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range (W. Dunn) is an additional northern 

 locality. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 22. 



Flowering twig of the typical form. 

 Fruits. 



tj! tus Bosistoana, P.v.M. 

 BOSISTO'S Box. 



Botanical Name. Bosistoana. in honor of the late Joseph Bosisto, Mj.L.A., 

 of Richmond, Melbourne, a pioneer of the Eucalyptus oil industry. 



Vernacular Names. " Red Box." It goes most commonly under this 

 name in the South Coast and Monaro, in reference to its pinkish colour 

 when fresh. 



" Of late it has received the local name of ' Grey Box ' from the splitters 

 nnd saw-millers." (A. W T . Howitt, speaking of Gippsland.) ."Yellow 

 Box " of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W r . (see this page and also p. 76). 

 "Bastard Box" of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W. It is called "Bas- 

 tard Box " from a belief amongst some timber men that it is a tree of 

 which the true Yellow Box (melliodora) is one of the parents. 



Timber. 



E. Bosistoana. This tree has in many respects a superficial! resemblance to 

 E. tm'lliodora, with which it was for a long time locally confounded hi Gipps- 

 land. 



