DESCRIPTION. 



XLL — £ Bosistoana, F.v.M. 



Anstralasian Journal of Pharmacy, October, 1895. 

 Finally tall ; branchlets slender, at first angular. 



Leaves. — On rather short petioles, almost chartaceous, mostly narrow or elongate-lanceolar, some- 

 what falcate, very copiously dotted with translucent oil glandules, generally dull-green on both sides, their 

 lateral venules distant, much divergent, the peripheric venule distinctly distant from the edge of the leaf, 

 all faint. 



Leaves of Youiija; Seedlings. — Roundish or ovate, scattered, stalked ; umbels few-flowered, 

 either axillar-solitary or racemosely arranged. 



Peduncles. — Nearly as long as the umbels or oftener variously shorter, slightly or sometimes 

 broadly compressed. 



Pedicels. — Usually much shorter, rather thick and angular. 



Tube of the Calyx. — Turbinate-semiovate, slightly angular. 



Lid. — Fully as long as the tube, semiovate-heuiispheric, often distinctly pointed. 



Stameus. — All fertile, the inner filaments abruptly inflected before expansion ; anthers very .small, 

 cordate or, ovate-roundish, opening by longitudinal slits. 



Style. — Short ; stigma somewhat dilated. 



Fruit. — Comparatively small, nearly semiovate, its rim narrow, its valves 5-6 or rarely 4, deltoid, 

 totally enclosed, but sometimes reaching to the rim ; sterile seeds very numertius, narrow or short ; fertile 

 seeds few, ovate, compressed, slightly pointed. 



In swampy localities at Cabramatta, and in some other places of the County of Cumberland and 

 also in the County of Camden (Rev. Dr. Woolls) ; near Mount Dromedary (Mi.ss Bate) ; near Twofold Bay 

 (L. Morton) ; near the Genoa (Barnard) ; on the summit of the Tantawanglo Mountains, and also near the 

 Mitchell River (Howitt) ; between the Tambo and Nicholson Rivers (Schlipalius) ; near the Strezlecki 

 Ranges (Olsen). The " Wul Wul " of the aborigines of the County of Dampier ; the " Darjan " of the 

 aborigines of Gippsland. Called locally by the colonists of New South Wales " Ironbark Box-tree," and in 

 some places also " Grey Box-tree," which appellations indicate the nature of the wood and bark, though 

 the latter may largely be shedding. 



As richly oil-yielding and also as exuding much kino, this tree is especially appropriate to connect 

 therewith the name of Joseph Bosisto, Esq., C.M.G., who investigated many of the products of the Eucalypts, 

 and gave them industrial and commercial dimensions. 



This species in its systematic affinities is variously connected with E. odorata, E. siderophloia, 

 E. hemiphloia, and E. drepanophylla. A fuller account of this valuable tree will early be given. 



Notes supplementary to the Description. 



Shortly after the publication of U. Bosistoana, I wrote to Baron von Mueller, 

 pointing out that he had confused two trees in his description — namely, a " Grey 

 Box " and an " Ironbark Box." He thanked me for the information, and stated he 

 intended to publish fixrtlicr notes on the tree (as, indeed, he promised at the 

 conclusion of the descri])tion), but his intention was frustrated by pressure of work 

 and subsequent death. 1 will endeavour to make E Bosistoana quite clear — that 



