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figured in fig. 8, both of the type plate and the Research plate. It will be observed 

 that they were not taken off the same tree as the buds (fig. 2), and the flowers (fig. 3), 

 as they are nearly sessile, while the twigs of buds and flowers are pedicellate. 



(Some of the very small fruits attributed to E. Woollsiana would probably have, 

 got larger, had not the growth been arrested from various causes.) 



Under the heading of E. Woollsiana R. T. Baker, in Proc. Roy. Soe. S.A., xl, 

 479 (1916), Mr. Baker writes : — " There appears to have been some confusion in the 

 past between this species and its congeners, for that figured by J. E. Brown, ' Forest 

 Flora of South Australia ' under E. odorata is this species. Specimens were received 

 which match the type (? which type) collected in New South Wales." 



This is a narrow-leaved species. I show a tracing of the essential parts of the 

 drawing (J. E. Brown's Plate 29) at figures 3a, 3b. This is, as Brown, then Conservator 

 of South Australian forests, says, the South Australian E. odorata, and although Brown 

 was not a botanist he knew this common South Australian species well. Brown's 

 drawing is, in my view also, E. odorata, and will be referred to under E. odorata at 

 p. 223. In other words, Mr. Baker synonymises his E. Woollsiana with E. odorata, 

 and I think he is right. 



Vernaculars. — " Mallee Box." This was applied by Mr. Baker to his species, 

 and I have known such a name to be applied in more than one district. It shares the 

 name, however, with E. odorata. The name means that the tree sometimes is as small 

 as Mallee, and that it has a Box-like bark, but that individual trees may grow quite 

 large, and shoot up above the prevailing dwarfer (Mallee) vegetation. I never knew 

 it to be a true Mallee. This name has been in actual use for this and allied species at 

 Nymagee, Mount Boppy, Yagobie (towards Queensland border), Inglewood (South 

 Queensland). 



Vernaculars are often applied in ignorance, or at all events, without uniformity. 



" Black Box " is a name less in use for this species, and most of the cases in 



which I have heard it used have been owing to confusion with E. odorata. At the same 



time, it has been applied to E. Woollsiana (so far as it was supposed to be recognised), 



and Mr. R. H. Cambage explains it as follows in 1900 : — 



" The tree which is best known in the western district as White Box is E. albens (E. hemiphhia var. 

 albens), with pale bark and glaucous leaves, but its habitat is under the western fringe of the high mountain 

 spurs running from the Great Dividing Range, avoiding the cold country, and extending westward along 

 slight undulations to the low plain country proper. Here it ceases, but is met and overlapped by 

 E. Woollsiana. All along, and near these points of contact, the latter is called Black Box, to distinguish 

 it from E. albens. It is also a darker tree, having dark green and slightly glossy leaves. In times of drought 

 sheep will eat the leaves of E. albens, especially after they have been cut a day or two, but they object to 

 the leaves of E. Woollsiana." (Cambage in Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxv, 715, 1900.) 



" Narrow-leaved Box." In comparison with such a species as E. hemiphhia 

 (vars. both albens and microcarpa) E. Woollsiana is undoubtedly narrow-leaved, but I 

 think most of the references to the narrowness of the leaves really belong to 

 E. Pilligaensis, see p. 210. 



