is to say, the free almost exclusively referred to in the description — and will touch 

 upon the confusion which has arisen when referring to the Ironbark Boxes in this 

 and a later Part. 



It is a species which has successively been confused by Mueller (and by 

 Wool Is and others following Mueller), with E. bicolor, E. melliodora, and 

 E. odorata. 



SYNONYM. 



E. bicolor, Woolls (Contrib. Flora of Australia, 232), non A. Cunn. ; 

 see also p. 7 of the present Part. 



In the Woollsian herbarium, which is my property, there is a specimen in Dr. Woolls' 

 handwriting bearing the following label : — ■ 



" Yellow or Bastard Box, half-barked when young, nearly smooth when full- 

 grown. Hard wood. Height, 120 feet. Cabramatta. E. bicolor." 



On another occasion, Dr. Woolls labelled a similar specimen from Cabramatta 

 " E largiflorens." 



There is no question as to the identity of this tree, even if his specimens did 

 not make it quite clear. It is E. Bosistoana, P.v.M., is typical for the species, as 

 determined by Mueller himself (Mueller first labelled this specimen E. odorata, Behr., 

 and then E. Bosistoana), and the assumption that Woolls' determination of the tree 

 as E. bicolor was correct has given rise to some curious mistakes. See my paper, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxvii, 519 (1902), for a full account of the matter. 



RANGE. 



So far as we know at present, it is confined to eastern New South Wales, from the 

 illawarra and the southern tableland in the north as far as north Gippsland (Bairns- 

 dale district), Victoria, in the south. 



Victoria. 



It grows only in Gippsland, especially on limestone formations, commencing to the westward of 

 Bairnsdale, and extending beyond Lake Tyers. Unfortunately, it grew principally upon lands which were 

 required for settlement, and, consequently, immense quantities of this tree have been ringbarked. It is 

 still found growing on some private lands, on some unalienated Crown lands, in the neighbourhood of 

 Lake King, and in Cunninghame State Forest. — (A. W. Howitt, in an unpublished official report, 1895.) 



