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Aboriginal Names. —-A short time ago I came across some specimens 
collected by George Caley in New South AVales in the first decade of the Nineteenth 
Century. They were labelled with almost the first aboriginal names attributed to 
Eucalyptus, and I reproduce them. Caley’s specimens, which I identified as 
belonging to this species, are three, and it is interesting to note that he spelt what 
is evidently the same name in three different ways. r J his is partly owing, doubtless, 
to the lack of an orthographic standard in those early days, and to the variants 
adopted by different blacks belonging to tribes now long extinct. 
1. “ Box, Barilgora ” (Caley’s label). 
2. “ Berigora Box ” (Caley). 
3. “ Berijora. More luxuriant ” (Caley). This is a coarse-foliaged specimen, 
probably from a young tree. 
Many years afterwards the late Sir William Macarthur, who did good service 
in collecting the aboriginal names for our vegetation, gave the name “ Barroul 
Gourrah ” to the “ True or Yellow Box of Camden.” The similarity of this name 
to those of Caley’s is evident. Recently when in England I examined the original 
specimen, which I have referred to in the following passage:—“ No. 135. Sydney 
Woods. W. Macarthur, 1854, Paris Exhibition, is represented in Herb., Kew, by 
foliage only. I have no doubt in my own mind that this is E. hemiphloia, E.v.M.” 
Sir William Macarthur’s catalogue notice is “Names in Cumberland and 
Camden, Bastard Box and Barroul Gourrah (aboriginal). An excellent timber ; the 
tree of most unsightly appearance, and almost invariably hollow or decayed at heart 
before attaining full stature. The wood greatly prized for plough beams, poles, and 
shafts of drays and carts, spokes of wheels, &c.” 
E. hemiphloia is also stated to have been known as “ Narulgun ” by the 
aborigines of sub-tropical Eastern Australia. 
Synonym. —Some of the synonyms of this species are referred to below. I 
recognise three varieties, viz. 
1. var. aliens, E.v.M. The large fruited glaucous (whitish) form. E. aliens, 
Miq. The name of E. aliens arose only from a misprint of E. pallens, and was first 
promulgated without any diagnosis (Eucalytographia under E. hemiphloia). E. 
pallens, E.v.M., non DC., is a synonym. 
2. var. microcarpa, Maiden. The small fruited form common in the drier 
parts of the State. 
3. var. purpurascens, Maiden. Trans. R. S., S.A., 1902, p. 12. The purple- 
flowered form found in South Australia. It is E. purpurascens, E.v.M., by Bentham 
thought to be a variety of E. Bshriana, E.v.M., but its affinity would appear to be 
with E. hemiphloia. It lias a pale-coloured timber, like E. hemiphloia, while that of 
E. Behriana is red. 
Leaves (oil). —The reddish-brown oil contains cincol and large amounts of 
cuminic aldehyde.* 
• Bericht von Schimmel & Co., Leipzig, April, 1892, p. 28. 
