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The Red JSox (E. polynnthema) grows in places all over (this is too wide. 
J.1I.M.) Victoria. The timber is, however, as a rule, rather small, the boles and 
limbs crooked, in some places so much so, for instance in the Havelock State 
Forest, as to be of no value but for firewood. (A. "W. Howitt in lilt.} 
In Trans Soy. Soc. Viet., ii, 90 (1890), Howitt considered it had two varieties. 
The first variety that he describes is really E. Eaueriana; his second variety, 
as described in the following paragraph, is the true E. polyanthcmos. 
The second variety is found in the liill country, and ascends from about 1 00 feet above sea level, as 
at Heyfield, to an elevation of 2,000 feet, as at the Wellington River and at the Taiubo River (Fainting 
Range). This mountain variety is a much smaller tree than the lowland form ; the leaves are thicker in 
texture, frequently pruinous, or even mealy. At first sight the tree resembles somewhat E. liemiphloia 
(variety aliens) in its bark, and ash coloured, and sometimes rather lengthened ovate leaves. But it is 
readily distinguished by the form of the buds, by the outer filaments being anantherous, and by the fruit. 
The seedlings and young saplings of both have much in common. 
You Yangs (J. Staer) ; Upper Yarra (C. Walter). 
Medium-sized tree with bark rough at base and part of stem ; brauchlets 
smooth. Bendigo (W. "W. Froggatt). 
Maryborough (J. Blackburne). Red Hill, Hcathcote (W. S. Brownscombe). 
Habit more upright-growing than the usual form of E. polyanthcmos. Foliage like 
lied Box on the lower branches, gradually merging into lanceolate leaves towards 
the higher branches. Bark like a typical polyanthemos. (Note this remark on the 
variation of width of leaves, which is especially common in this species.) 
Benalla (R. Helms). 
" Red Box " with red timber and gnarled greyish boxy bark. Euroa, Lily- 
dale, Buchan, Gippsland. It grows on hillsides (A. W. Howitt). Red Nob, 
Metung to Boggy Creek (J.H.M.). " Bairnsdale Red Box" (A. W. Howitt). 
Bruthen (R. H. Cambagc, No. 3672). 
Diamond Creek (J. Staer); Chiltern (A. W. Howitt, J. Staer). 
Wangaratta, handsome, spreading trees with rough, furrowed bark, glaucous 
all over (J.H.M.), hence sometimes called " Grey Box." 
"Hill Box," Mt. Kosciusko Range, red wood (Finuiay), probably on the 
Victorian side (National Herbarium, Melbourne). 
" 36. Eucalyptus polyanthcmos, Schauer, l.c.n.5. Beyond Mount Disap- 
pointment (Fcrd. Mucll.) " is a note by Miqucl in Ned. Kruidk. Arch., iv (1886). 
Snowy River (R, Rowe) ; Chiltern (A W. Howitt); McAllister River 
(Mueller) ; Broken River, North-eastern Victoria (Mueller, 1853) ; Kiewa, rough 
Box-bark (Miss J. Campbell). 
