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I have examined the following specimens (chiefly in the National Herharium, 



Sydney) :— 



South Australia. 



Mannum (W. Gill). 



Victoria. 



A specimen in herb. Melh. bears the following label : — " 16. Euc. laryijiorens, 

 ferd. Mil. herb. Shiartii, 153. Nov. Holl. Austral, 1847, Murray." " E. iKsmastoma, 

 Sm. Miquel" (in Miquel's handwriting). " E. bicolor, A. C" (in Bentham's hand- 

 writing). I have a specimen from Kew, " Munay River (Mueller)," that seems in 

 no way different. 



Eight to 10 miles north-west of Nhill, on somewhat moist flats (St. Eloy 

 D'Alton) ; north-west of Lake Albacutya (C. French) ; Wimmera, with normal 

 flowers (J. Reader and others) ; Wimmera, 1891 (J. P. Eckert), with red flowers — 

 one of the many instances in this species of two-coloui-ed flowers {bicolor) ; Swan 

 Hill (Dr. Griffiths). " A Box which grows with E. rostrata on the river flats, Swan 

 Hill to Mildura. Habit, spreading, bark greyish, close and even, resembling a 

 typical Grey Box " (W. S. Brownscombe) ; Murray River (J. P. Eckert) ; Benjerup, 

 Mui'ray River (C. Walter) ; Murray River, near Kerang. "A Box-tree .... 

 a low straggling tree, something like E. melliodora in habit. The leaves, however, 

 have generally a bluish tint, and the wood is lieavier, darker, and not " ringy " like 

 the Yellow Box. 2 feet 6 inches in diameter, perfectly sound, fine, hard, red 

 timber, with very little sap-wood " (J. Blackburne). 



New South Wales. 

 " Grey Box, the common Box of Riverina " (T. G. Sloane, Mulwala). The 

 fruits urceo'ate when unripe ; Nyanda, Booligal (J. O'Brien, through E. B. Guthrie), 

 used for feeding sheep through the 1902 drought; "Black or Elooded Box," 

 Deniliquin (Forester Wilsliire) ; Jerilderie, Dwarf Box (25-30 feet), with a blackish 

 persistent bark on the stem. Wood dark-red inside, but lighter in the sapwood 

 (W. H. Suttor). Mr. W. H. Suttor's specimens were labelled " Goborro " by 

 Dr. Woolls, and are bicolor ; Ivanhoe, via Hay (H. Deane), red timber. 



" Box." " The country around Hay is all Box or Gum, with a very small 

 proportion of Needlewood, and no Mallee " (Acting Forester D. A. Wilson) ; 

 " Black Box," " Swamp Box," Hillston. " A sure indication of swampy country or 

 country flooded at times, and is dense and low-growing " (W. S. Campbell) ; 

 " River Box," Lake Cudgellico (G. S. Home, J. L. Boorman) ; " Drooping Box," 

 Condobolin Flats, some leaves a little shiny (J.H.M.) ; Condobolin-Euabalong Road 

 (J.H.M.) ; Euabalong (J. L. Boorman); "Swamp White Box" or " Coolabah " of 

 Lachlan (fc\ R. Kidston). 



" Sample taken from a tree about 15 feet high and 1 foot in diameter. I 

 selected a young tree, as almost all the large ones are hollow. It grew on flooded 

 land on the first creek 3 miles south of Condobolin. I should call it dwarf or 

 stunted Box with drooping branches like a ' Willow tree ' " (W. H. Suttor). 



