Again the same writer states : — 



I am much indebted in this instance to the writings of the late Dr. Woolls for finding the particular 

 tree of E. bieolor* In his "Contributions to the Flora of Australia" (p. 232), he gives the locality 

 Cabramatta, .where will be found trees that exactly coincide with Cunningham's description of E. biculor, 

 and in no way agree with E largiflorens, F.v.M. (E. pendula, A. Cunn.|), of the interior. I and others 

 have now seen both trees in the field, and agree that the two are quite distinct, and Cunningham was 

 quite justified in making two species, viz., E. pendula, "Red Box," and E. bieolor, "Bastard Box." 



This latter species occurs all along the banks of the South Creek.— (R. T. Baker, in Proc. Linn. 

 Soc, F.S. W., xxv, 666 ; see also J. H. Maiden, ib., xxvii, 519.) 



1. E. pendula, Page. 



This name was first published (name only) in Page's " Prodromus ; as a 

 general nomenclature of all the plants . , . cultivated in Southampton Botanic 

 Gardens, by William Bridgewater Page, London, 1818." 8vo. pp. 136. 



In Steudel's " Nomenclator Botanicus " (ed. ii. Vol. i. p. 600) appears the 

 simple entry "pendula, Page, Nov. Holl." I have been unable to ascertain that 

 Page's name is other than a nomen nudum. 



2. E. pendula, A. Cunn. 



In B.E1. (iii. 215) this is quoted as "A. Cunn. in Steud. Norn. Bot. Ed. 2." 

 It is assumed to be a synonym of E. pendula, Page. 



The origin of A. Cunningham's name pendula doubtless arose from the 

 following : — 



The " Weeping Eucalyptus " of Major .Mitchell's Expedition, 1S36, No. 83 of 20th April. Specimen 

 in Herb. Cant, ex herb. Lindl. This is no doubt the plant referred to in the "Three Expeditions," ii, 45, 

 in these words, "In the woods I observed a Eucalyptus of a graceful drooping character, apparently 

 related to E. pilularis and E. amygdalina. 



Mitchell was then on the Lachlan. 



The specimen No. 83 has been examined by me and is identical with 

 E. bieolor, A. Cunn., or E. largiflorens, F.v.M. 



The interior species, E. pi ndula, has a Box bark right out to the branchlets (W. Biiuerlen and 

 R. H. Cambage), a red timber, the leaves being longer than those of E. bieolor and glaucous, whilst the 

 fruits are only half the size of the eastern species. The oils are also quite different (R. T. Baker, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc, A T .S. W., xxv, 666). The name E. pendula, A. Cunn., cannot stand, and the tree referred to is 

 E. bieolor, A. Cunn. The E. bieolor referred to in this passage is, as has been shown, E. Bosistoana, F.v.M. 



3. E. largiflorens, P.v.M. 



Arboreous: leaves alternate, glaucous, opaque, oblong-lanceolate, acute, slightly oblique, thinly 

 veined, hardly dotted ; umbels pedunculate, panic-led, few-fiowered ; flowers small, on short pedicels; lid 

 double, thin, nearly even, hemispherical, blunt or minutely apiculate ; tube of the calyx obconical-bell- 

 shaped, hardly angular, twice as lor.g as the lower lid ; fruits small, half ovate, short stalked, slightly 

 contracted at the top ; valves of the capsule inclosed. 



In bushy barren localities on the Murray, Avoca, Wimmera, and on St. Vincent's Gulf. A small 

 tree, with persistent grey-blackish bark. — (Trans. Vict. Inst. i. 34, 1855.) 



A type specimen in Herb. Melb. bears the following label : — 



" Eucalyptus largiflorens, ferd. Mil. herb. Stuartii 153. Nov. Holl. Austral. 

 1847. Murray. (K. hamiastoma, Sm., Miquel." in Miquel's handwriting, and also 

 bearing the species number 16, in his Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv.). " E. bieolor, A.C." 

 (in Bentham's handwriting). 



• E. Bosistoana, F.v.M. 



