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Juvenile leaves. — Glaucous, equally pale green on both sides, broadly ovate, tapering to a blunt 

 point, commonly 3 inches long by 1| inches broad, with a slightly twisted petiole of J to \ inch. Oil-dots 

 obvious, venation faint though distinct, spreading, with the intramarginal vein a considerable distance 

 from the edge. 



Mature leaves. — Coriaceous, equally green on both sides, of egg shell lustre, sometimes dull, lanceolate, 

 slightly oblique, commonly 4 inches long by 1 inch broad, venation not very distinct, spreading, the 

 intramarginal vein not very close to the edge. 



Buds. — The operculum and calyx alike conoid and of p-pproximately equal dimensions. 



Flowers. — Profusely borne in panicles, three to seven or more, borne on a common peduncle. 

 Anthers with filaments at base and with pores near the top. A small gland near the top. These anthers 

 may be termed "semi-terminal." In an anther of this class back and front are much alike. The anthers 

 of all forms of hemiphloia appear to be identical. Stigma a little dilated. 



Fruit. — Sub-cylindrical and the valves well sunk ; the shape of that of the normal species, but in 

 other respects not different. 



Type, Gulgong, N.S.W., in National Herbarium, Sydney. 



SYNONYM. 



E. Woollsiana, R. T. Baker, partim. 



"The Woollsiana No. 2 " of J. H. Maiden. Proc. Zinn. Soc, N.S. W., xxix, 764. 



RANGE. 



As a very general rule this form occurs in " dry country " localities, but it also occurs 

 in the coast-belt, e.g , on mountains in the Gloucester district, New South Wales, 

 also in the Macpherson Range, and coastal Queensland. 



It seems to be most abundantly diffused in New South Wales, but it is 

 common in Victoria, and will probably be found in Queensland. 



Victoria. 



The " Grey Box " is met with in two varieties (a) in the northern and north-eastern districts. It 

 is a principal constituent of the State forests and timber reserves in the neighbourhood of Bendigo, 

 Maryborough, Wedderburn, and Hcathcote, and is a useful and durable timber, but it has a fault in being, 

 when of any size, almost invariably pipy and hollow. — (A. W. Howitt's official unpublished Report, 1895.) 



The form (a) is var. micrucarpa, and the second variety is var. albena. 



I have seen specimens from the following localities : — Campbellfield and 

 Warrandyte, Tipper Yarra (C. Walter). "Grey Box," Tatura, Goulburn Valley 

 (J. M. Griffiths) ; " Grey Box," Goulburn Valley (Sylvester Browne) ; head of 

 Loddon and Avoca (W. K. Bissill), Melbourne Herbarium. Mueller labelled this 

 specimen " JE. hemiphloia, a form verging to M Behriano," and a similar specimen, 

 " B. Behriana, transit to E. hemiphloia" Heathcote (W. S. Brownsoombe, 17a) ; 

 Bendigo (W. W. Froggatt) ; Maryborough ; Rushworth ; our common box tree 

 found nearly all over Victoria (J. Blackburne) ; Benalla and Kerang (A. W. Howitt), 



