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E. Baueriana Schaucr. 

 Blue Box. Timber brown, heartwood very hard, hence one of the local names, 

 Lignum vitse. 



E. Blackburniana Maiden. 

 A Box. Pale brown. Interlocked. 



E. Bosistoana F.v.M. 

 A Yellow Box. Its timber is often of a yellowish colour, a tint which it preserves 

 for some time. Sometimes it is pinker, and hence obtains the name of Red Box. It is 

 tough and inlocked. 



E. Cloeziana F.v.M. 

 Pale -coloured, drying yellowish brown. Fissile, rather coarse and wavy in grain. 



E. conica Deane and Maiden. 

 Fuzzy Box. Pale-brown, with a shade of pink. 



E. exserta F.v.M. 

 Brown, not red. Softish, easily split. 



E. ochrophloia F.v.M. 

 Yapunyah. Brown, hard, heavy, close-grained. 



E. odorata Behr. 

 South Australian Box or Peppermint. Pale coloured to brown, hard, interlocked. 



E. Pilligaensis Maiden. 

 Narrow-leaved Box. Brown," interlocked. 



E. populifolia Hook. 

 Bimble Box. Pale brown, wavy in grain, interlocked. 



E. rarielora Bailey. 

 A Box. Brown, very much like the preceding. 



E, Raveretiana F.v.M. 

 A Box. Brown, very hard. 



E. Thozetiana F.v.M. 

 Brown, or blackish brown, not red. Tough. 



Perhaps the following three timbers come in here, but I have not seen satisfactory 

 specimens of them :— 



E. Hoivittiana F.v.M. 



E. Normantonensis Maiden and Cambage. 



E. pruinosa Schau. 



E. Howittiana F.v.M, 

 " Wood, however, much like that of the former (i.e., the Boxes), but its fibres 

 not quite so interwoven, hence easier to split." (Inspector Stafford.) 

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