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The species was originally described from a little north of Bathurst, 
arid E. polyantJiemo8 (Red Box) in that district is a somewhat gnarled gum-tree with 
more or loss hard-flaky bark and ribbons on the butt. The branches are smooth. 
In the south (including Victoria) it may have a rough Box-like bark, sub- 
fibrous and more or less fissured. Such rough bark may extend as far as the first 
fork. 
E. Dawsoni is a gum-tree with nothing about its general appearance 
suggestive of a Box-tree, scnsu strictu. 
Timber. That of E. polyanthcmos is hard and interlocked, deep red in 
colour, and one of the most durable timbers in the ground. It often has a short 
trunk and may be pipy, but it is always used, when available, for such trying uses 
as surveyors' pegs, posts and mining timbers, house-blocks. 
The late Mr. J. V. do Coque wrote to me : " This Box, particularly about 
"VVangaratta, is remarkably durable, and takes the place of Ironbark for railway 
bridges construction. I used nearly 500 piles in the Myrtleford to Bright railway, 
all pipy ; when piles are driven the practice is to plug the pipe holes." 
Size. It is a tree of medium size, sometimes umbrageous, often gnarled. 
E. Dawsoni is much the larger tree, and somewhat reminds one of E. t-creticornis. 
It is erect in habit. To what extent this, a matter of environment, carries this 
away from E. polyanthemos, is precisely the point under investigation. 
Habitat. So far as we know at present, this species is confined to New 
South Wales and Victoria. The type came from near Bathurst, N.S.W., 
and it has an extensive range in the colder, drier districts of the two States. 
"We want further inquiries as to its range, both west and north. 
It does not appear to have been recorded north of a line about Cassilis along 
the Liverpool Range, but it may extend towards the Warrumbungles. It does not 
occur on any part of New England. 
The form (or species) known as E. Dawsoni occurs at Denman, and about 
the Baerami Creek, Goulburn River, New South Wales. 
In the Flora Australiensis (B.E1. iii, 214) North Australia and Queensland 
(entered because of confusion Avith E. populifolia Hook, f .) must be struck out, leaving 
New South Wales and Victoria as the only States for E. polyanthemos. 
E. Bancriana Schauer there referred to, is not a tropical species as Bentharn 
surmises, and the specimens referred to by Bentham under New South Wales, under 
"George(s) River, R. Brou-, Nepcan River, "Lignum Vitto," belong to that 
species and not to E. polyanthemos. 
In the " Eucalyptographia " the range the vicinity of Port Phillip and the 
Gippsland Lakes, also about Port Jackson and Liverpool, should be struck out. 
" Tributaries of the Darling River is too vague." 
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