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All the above are practically from the Parramatta district, and may be looked 

 upon as typical. The fruits from Windsor vary in size, some of them being as small 

 as those of var. microcarpa. 



Northern Localities. — Glendon, Singleton (Leichhardt) ; Paterson River 

 (J. L. Boorman) ; Booral to Gloucester, 60 feet KJ inches, on low clayey soil 

 (A. Rudder). 



Often called " Forest Box," to distinguish it from the " Brush Box " 

 {Tristania conferta). Raymond Terrace, ??/« Stroud and Gloucester, to Taree. I 

 did not again notice it on the coast road. The straightness of the stems of this tree 

 is worthy of note. — (J.H.M.) 



" Gum-top Box," " Mountain Box," " Green Top," Bulliac Ranges or Tops, 

 Barrington River, Gloucester (W. H. Etheridge). 



Eucalyptus virgata, Sieber, Hunter PJver, New South Wales, Wilkes, U.S. 

 Expl. Exped., 1838-42 (Botany, Asa Gray, i, 553), No. 25,503 U.S. Nat. Herb, is 

 E. hemiiMoia, E.v.M. ; Port Macquarie (Forest Ranger Wilson) ; Casino (District 

 Forester Pope) ; Unumgar Station, Upper Richmond (W. Forsyth) ; Drake (E. 0. 

 Andrews) ; Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, " White, Grey, or Gum-top Box " 

 (W. Dunn). Some specimens show transit to var. microcarpa. 



Queensland. 



Toowong, Brisbane, and Dinmore (F. M. Bailey) ; " Gum-top Box," Mary- 

 borough (W. H. Williams) ; " Gum-top Box," north of Rockhami^ton (A. Murphy) ; 

 also west of Rockhampton, e.g. Duaringa and Wallaroo (J.H.M.) ; Herbert Creek 

 (Bowman). 



The first two are co-type localities : the specimens from all the localities are 

 similar to typical hemiphloia, which is remarkably uniform in coastal Queensland. 



AFFINITIES. 



1. With E. Bosistoana. See p. 4. 



2. With E. odorata. 



S. hemiphloia recedes from E. odorata in the external paleness of the persistent portion of its bark, 

 in the more extensive secession of the bark from the branches, in the broader leaves of thicker consistence 

 with less spreading and less copious veins and less distinguishable oil-dots, in not usually solitary axillary 

 umbels, often more acute lid and more deeply inserted valves of the fruit. The reliability of these 

 distinctions should be further traced in South Australia, wherever the two species grow promiscuously. 

 — (" Eucalyptographia " under E. hemiphloia). 



The rim round the orifice of the fruit cannot be used as a specific difference 

 between these two species ; it is abundant enough in E. hemiphloia from the County 

 of Cumberland, N.S.W,, hundreds of miles from the nearest locality ever attributed 



