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to odorata. This rim is especially evident in young fruits of both species ; indeed 

 it is found in a number of other species also. 



E. hemiphloia, as compared with E. odorata, has broad, usually larger and 

 coarser, dull foliage, also pale filaments, but they appear to go darker with age. 

 There appear to be no pink filaments in any form of E. hemiphloia. Venation more 

 spreading from the base; marked rim in immature fruit; fruits sub-cylindrical, 

 and greater angularity of the fruit in E. hemiphloia. 



The inflorescence in E. odorata is either not paniculate or that character 

 is rare. 



I doubt, however, whether it be possible, without botanically perfect material 

 to in all cases separate E. hemiphloia from E. odorata. E. hemiphloia, F.v.M., var. 

 microcarpa , and E. odorata, var. Woollsiana, are the two varieties of the respective 

 species which approach each other closest. 



Var. microcarpa, Maiden. 



The first use of this name was as follows : — 



The confusion between these two species (E. Behriana, F.v.M. and E. hemiphloia, F.v.M.) has been 

 already referred to. It occurs with the small-fruited variety of hemiphloia, whijh in many herbaria goes 

 under the name of pa/rviflora. This in itself would be an appropriate name, but one at least of the 

 specimens tentatively so named by Bentham (B.F1. iii, 217) is an Ironbark. I therefore propose for the 

 small-fruited variety of hemiphloia, so extensively distributed over the greater part of the range of the 

 species, the name of E. hemiphloia, F.v.M., var. microcarpa. It is synonymous with E. Woollsiana R. T. 

 Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., xxv, 684; R. H. Cambage, ib., 714.— (Proc. Royal Soc, S.A., 1901 

 (1902), p. 11). 



Then in Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S. W., 1902, 523, in referring to its affinity with 

 E. bicolor, A. Cunn. In my " Forest Flora of New South Wales," i, 131, there is 

 a reference only. A fourth reference is : — 



E. Woollsiana has the numerous fine oil-dots of E. odorata, a character it 

 shares with E. hemiphloia, var. microcarpa, Maiden. The inclusion of E. Woollsiana 

 in this variety {Trans. Roy. Soc. S.A., 1902, p. 11) is perhaps erroneous. Certainly 

 it is very close to hemiphloia, var. microcarpa, and some botanists may consider it to 

 be nearer to that species that to E. odorata, New South Wales {Proc. Roy, Soc, 

 S.A., 1903, 245). 



Through some inadvertence the variety does not seem to have been formally 

 defined. I therefore proceed to define it. 



DESCRIPTION. 



A medium-sized or large tree, rather erect in habit, known usually as "Grey Box" or "Box." 

 Bark. — Sub-fibrous, rather compact, and greyish or whitish on the trunk; the limbs smooth. 

 Timber.-. — Pale coloured or light brown ; rather interlocked. 



