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The rough bark is up to the ultimate brauchlets. It is hard to grub out, and it 

 suckers badly. It seems to be usually found in good laud. It also goes by the 

 names of " Round-leaf Box " a^ud " Brown Box." 



The above are localities south coastal from Sydney. 



Putty, rif/ Singleton (A. C. Barwick, througli R. T. Baker). This is the 

 only New South Wales locality north of Sydney recorded. 



Queensland. 

 "A Box-tree growing 1.3 miles out from Stanthorpe, with bark like hemiphloia, 

 and continuing rough out to the young limbs. Timber very hard. Fruits very 

 large." (A. Murphy). 



Variety conica, Maiden. 



In Froc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. xxvii, 216 (1902). E. conica, Deane and Maiden, 

 ib. xxiv, 612 (1899). 



Following is the original description : — 



A Box of medium size ; a pretty, graceful tree, with pendulous branches. 



Vernacular names. — "Fuzzy Box," "Bastard Box," "Yellow Box," " Grey Box " or " Woolly 

 Butt," " Apple Box^." 



Bark. — Of the ordinary " box " character, but in districts where the two trees grow together 

 rougher than that of E. hemiphloia ; persistent in all cases, right on to the small branches. 



Timber. — Reddish-yellow, and very tough when dry ; much redder than ordinary Box (R. H. 

 Cambage). [It is brown as compared with that of E. polyanthemos, or Red Box.] 



Juvenile leaves. — Pale green, not glaucous ; broadly ovate ; the intramarginal vein considerably 

 distant from the margin, and, with the midrib, giving the leaf a triplinerved appearance. 



Mature leaves. — Lanceolate, ultimately narrow-lanceolate, and, say, 4 inches long by half an inch 

 broad ; varying, however, in length and width, and some branchlets including very wide leaves ; the 

 intramarginal vein is distinctly removed from the edge of the leaf, although this is of course less marked 

 in the case of narrow leaves ; the venation is oblique, but few of these secondary veins are as prominent 

 as the intramarginal vein. The foliage is drooping and has frequently long stalks. 



Buds. — Clavate, the calyx-tube greatly exceeding the operculum in size ; the operculum nearly 

 hemispherical, with a small umbo ; the calyx-tulie taperir>g gradually to the common point of attachment 

 to the stalk, the buds being sessile. 



Flowers. — This is a very florifeious species ; the inflorescence is arranged in panicles of several 

 inches, the individual umbels having a maximum of six or seven flowers. Stigma hardly dilated ; anthers 

 small, opening in terminal pores, all fertile and inflected in the bud. 



Fruits. — Narrow conical (hence the specific name), tapering to the point of attachment of the 

 common stalk. Often not quite symmetrical, and somewhat pear-shaped. Greatest length, say, | inch by, 

 say, /f inch broad. Thin rim ; the valves, which are three or four and very small, are deeply sunk. Of 

 a pale brown colour and shining. 



Contrasted with E. Baueriana, Schauer, the chief characters of the variety 

 appear to be : — Larger, more erect tree, foliage narrower and pendulous, fruits 

 smaller. Although different enough at first sight as regards the typical forms, the 

 present form is indubitably, in my opinion, the western or usually narrow-leaved 

 form of E. Baueriana, but it insensibly connects with the typical species found on the 

 coast or tablelands. The type species has also more glaucous leaves than the 

 (usually) more interior form. Further, the often broad juvenile leaves, and the 

 broad mature leaves especially common on the northern table-land present, to me, 

 an insuperable barrier to keeping the two forms apart as distinct species. 



