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" Grey Box" or "Apple Box" ov " Bed Box " of Laclilan Biver, 30 miles 

 below Condobolin. " Bough grey bark on limbs." " White Box," Mt. Hope 

 Boad to Euabalong; "White Box," "Grey Box," "Apple Box," "Bed Box." 

 Persistent bark on the branchlets, wood redder than E. hemiphloia, and not so hard, 

 bark not so useful either. Condobolin." " White or Grey Box " with limbs partly 

 white (1{. H. Cambage). 



Paldrumatta Bore, via Wilcannia, " Box," " Curra Curra " of the aborigines. 

 " The only Eucalypt growing in the creek here " (P. Corbett). Mt. Oxley, Bourke 

 (E. Betche). 



(a) Victorian Expedition, 1860, towards Barrier Bange. 



{b) Clay flats, near Biver Darling, 31st October, 1860. 



(c) Victorian Expedition, 1st November, 1860, Bambouroo, Dry Lake, near 



Menindie. 

 {d) High sandy banks of Biver Darling. 



(These four specimens were collected by the Burke and Wills' Expedition, 

 and are in the Nat. Herb. Melbourne). 



Cobham Lake (W. Biiuerlen), No. 263, 20-30', 12". Bark persistent. Dull 

 leaves. , Venation strongly marked. A very broad-leaved form. 



" Biver Box," Bourke. " Plentiful on all the low lands of this and adjacent 

 districts. Trees small, much resembling mallee in appearance. Long pendulous 

 branches, bark rough, dark to the extreme tips of the branches. Timber reddish- 

 brown, of superior quality. A handsome tree " (J. L. Boorman). Leaves narrow. 



" Biver Box," Cobar Boad, near Bourke. "Found in plenty; much larger 

 specimens than those growing in the Lignum Swamps on the Darling, near Bourke" 

 (J. L. Boorman). The leaves of this specimen ai-e mostly coarser than those of the 

 preceding specimen. Bourke to Barringun (W. S. Campbell) ; Biver Darling at 

 Bourke (J.H.M.). 



"No. 13, broad-leaf kind of E. bicolor, North Bourke" (A. Murphy). 

 Further information supplied by Mr. Murphy, is : " The timber of this variety is 

 red, the same as the narrow-leaved bicoloi- ; there is no difference as j"ar as timber is 

 concerned ; the only difference is in the leaves — those of the broad-leaved variety 

 are of a lighter green than the narrow-leaved variety. I found red and white 

 flowers on the same tree, and also on the narrow-leaved one." The leaves of this 

 form are somewhat shiny, as well as broad ; and I think we have evidence of 

 hybridism with E. popuUfolia. I will deal with this specimen when dealing with 

 the question of hybridism generally. 



"Box." Banks of river, Tinapagee, Wanaaring, Paroo IJiver (E. Betche, 

 B. J. Dalton) ; Cuttabuira Biver, Yantabulla (A. Murphy) ; " River Box," Belalie 

 Bore (H. V. Jackson) ; Wilcannia (H. V. Jackson) ; Murtee Holding (Stock 

 Inspector Tully) ; " Black, narrow-leaved or Bogan Biver Box," Coolabah 



