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E. vitrea R. T. Baker. 

 A shrub or small tree to one of medium size, the bole with persistent 

 bark, the branches smooth. The bark is variously described; thus (1) "Bastard 

 Stringybark, ribbony tops, hard scaly bark, not fibrous"'; (2) "Rough and thin 

 and of a dark brown colour, hanging loosely from the stem, in short loose pieces " 

 (Wingello, J.L.B.). " Peppermint. Rough bark about 15 or 20 feet high. Near 

 Oberon, on Hampton-road." (R. H. Cambage). " Smooth bark, except just at butt. 

 Black chippy bark. Three miles south of Marulan, on side of gravelly ridge." 

 (A. Murphy). 



It is nearest to a Peppermint. 



B. Boxes, i.e., trees with sub-fibrous, interlaced bark and interlocked timber. 

 Eastern Australia; some tropical. Timbers pale-coloured, or at all events not dark- 

 brown, although, if one keeps a timber long enough, it will become very dark. This 

 remark is of general application. The name arose because of the interlocked timber 

 of some of them. This was associated with a certain type of bark, and then we obtained 

 the " box " bark, sometimes irrespective of the boxy nature of the timber. 



As regards bark alone, some species may be termed Woollybutts, but the true 

 Woollybutts have red timber. 



E. aggregate/, Deane and Maiden. 



E. Banksii Maiden. 



E. Bosistoana F.v.M. 



E. cinerea F.v.M. 



E. hemiphloia F.v.M. 



E. Howittiana F.v.M. 



E. Macarthurii Deane and Maiden. 



E. melliodora A. Cunn. 



E. nitens Maiden. 



E. Normantonensis Maiden and Cambage. 



E. ovata Labill. 



E. Pillagaensis Maiden. 



E. pruinosa Schau. 



E. quadrangulata Deane and Maiden. 



E. Yarraensis Maiden and Cambage. 



E. aggregata Deane and Maiden. 

 " Black Gum." Usually a small, gnarled tree, but may be straighter, up to 

 40 feet, with a trunk of 2 feet. The bark of the butt box-like or rather more flaky, 

 with smooth, dark-green branches. 



E. Banksii Maiden. 

 " Tenterfield Woollybutt." A very large tree, up to 100 feet, reminding one of 

 E. goniocalyx in habit. Bark of a dull uniform grey (not quite smooth, but almost a 

 Grey Gum), woolly or fuzzy (not as soft and as boxlike as E. Stuartiana) along the 

 butt, hence the name " Woollybutt." This is a species which runs insensibly into the 

 Rhytiphloice. 



