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Eucalyptus Bosistoana, F.v.M. 
Bosisto’s Box. 
(Family MYRTACEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Eucalyptus , already described. (See Part II, 
p. 33.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. Bosistoana , P.v.M., in Australasian Journ. 
Pharm., 1895. 
Finally tall; branchlets slender, at first angular. 
Leaves. —On rather short petioles, almost chartaceous, mostly narrow or elongate-lanceolar, some¬ 
what falcate, very copiously dotted with translucent oil glandules, generally dull-green on 
both sides, their lateral venules distant, much divergent, the peripheric venule distinctly 
distant from the edge of the leaf, all faint. 
Leaves of young Seedlings. —Roundish or ovate, scattered, stalked ; umbels few-flowered, either 
axillar-solitary or racemosely arranged. 
Peduncles .—Nearly as long as the umbels or oftener variously shorter, slightly or sometimes 
broadly compressed. 
Pedicels. —Usually much shorter, rather thick and angular. 
Tube of the Calyx .—Turbinate-semiovate, slightly angular. 
Lid .—Fully as long as the tube, semiovate-hemispheric, often distinctly pointed. 
Stamens. —All fertile, the inner filaments abruptly inflected before expansion ; anthers very small, 
cordate or ovate-roundish, opening by longitudinal slits. 
Style. —Short; stigma somewhat dilated. 
Fruit. —Comparatively small, nearly semiovate, its rim narrow, its valves 5-6 or rarely 4, deltoid, 
totally enclosed, but sometimes reaching to the rim; sterile seeds very numerous, narrow or 
short; fertile seeds few, ovate, compressed, slightly pointed. 
In swampy localities at Cabifunatta, and in some other places of the County of Cumberland,, and 
also in the County of Camden (Rev. Dr. Woolls); near Motjlnfc Dromedary (Misp Bate); near Twofold Bay 
(L. Morton); near the Genoa (Barnard); on the summit of the Tantawanglo Mountains, and also near 
the Mitchell River (Howitt); between the Tambo and Nicholson Rivers (Schlipalius); near the Strezlecki 
Ranges (Olsen). The “Wul Wul” of the aborigines of the County of Dampier; the “Darjan” of the 
aborigines of Gippsland. Called locally by the colonists of New South Wales Ironbark Box-tree , and in 
some places also Grey Box-tree, which appellations indicate the nature of the wood and bark, though 
the latter may largely be shedding. 
As richly oil-yielding, and also as exuding much kino, this tree is especially appropriate to connect 
therewith the name of Joseph Bosisto, Esq., C.M.G., who investigated many of the products of the 
Eucalypts, and gave them industrial and commercial dimensions. 
This species, in its systematic affinities, is variously connected with E. odorata, E. siderophloia, 
E. hemiphloia, and E. drepanophylla. A fuller account of this valuable tree will early be given. (Op. cit.) 
