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E. odokata Behr. 

 Dark grey, rough, persistent bark. Fairly large tree, trunk 18 inches in 

 diameter. Bark black, scaly or rough, hard, furrowed in the case of the largest trees. 

 Branches smooth or nearly so. Timber pale-coloured to brown, and hard. 



E. patens Benth. 

 A large tree, with rough bark all over the trunk and branches. Said bark is 

 soft rather than hard, thick, greyish, black. In Western Australia such a bark is called 

 Blackbutt. In eastern Australia it would be called a Woollybutt. 



E. Planchoniana F.v.M. 

 A tree attaining a height of 100 feet. Although sometimes termed Stringybark, 

 the bark is short-grained and cannot be used for roofing purposes, hence it is called 

 Messmate. It is rough to the branchlets. It has a flat-fibrous bark, somewhat 

 resembling that of E. resinifera. It has also been compared with that of E. robusta. 

 The timber is pale-coloured and is sent to market sometimes as a substitute for Tallow- 

 wood (E. microcorys). 



E. populifolia Hook. 



" Bimble Box." A small to medium-sized, sometimes umbrageous, tree, often 



rather erect in habit, but with more or less pendulous branches. Bark sub-fibrous 



and somewhat matted (box-like) ; persistent on both trunk and branches. Timber 



pale brown. 



E. rariflora F. M. Bailey. 



A tall tree, the trunk and large branches covered with hard-fibrous, black, 



corrugated bark such as would merit the name of Black Box. Timber pale brown. 



E. Eaveretiana F.v.M. 

 A " Box." A large and sturdy tree, somewhat scrambling in habit. It has 

 flaky or hard scaly bark on the trunk or main branches. The flakes or furrows are not 

 deep. The smaller branches are dirty blue-grey in colour. Timber brownish. 



E. rums Endl. 

 Bark darkish grey, not deciduous like E. rostrata; corky and thin flaky, i.e., 

 the rough bark, which is flatfish and not thick, is so much fissured, both longitudinally 

 and transversely, that it breaks into small flakes with but slight violence. 



E. striaticalyx W. V. Fitzgerald. 

 Tree of 30-40 feet. Bark dark grey or blackish, flaky, thin, yellow inside, 

 covering the whole of the trunk and part of the branches. Perhaps a Black Box. 

 Timber pale brown. 



This is unquestionably allied to E. dumosa, placed with the Mallees. 



E. Stuarttana F.v.M. 

 A large, often scrambling tree, with soft, white (often superficially discoloured) 

 box-like bark, rough to the extremity of the branchlets. Bark thickish, often zig- 

 zagged or wrinkled, and reminding one of the shorn back of a sheep. 



