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Shortly after the publication of E. Bosistoana, I wrote to Baron von Mueller, 
pointing out that he had confused two trees in his description, namely, a “ Grey 
Box ” and an “ Ironbark Box.” He thanked me for the information, and stated he 
intended to publish further notes on the tree (as, indeed, lie promised at the 
conclusion of the description), but liis intention was frustrated by pressure of work, 
and subsequent death. 
Botanical Name. — Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 34); 
Bosistoana, in honour of the late Joseph Bosisto, M.L.A., of Richmond, Melbourne. 
See my “Records of Victorian Botanists,” in Viet. Nat., xxv, p. 103 (1908). 
Vernacular Names. —“ Red Box.” It goes most commonly under this 
name in the South Coast and Monaro, in reference to its pinkish colour when fresh. 
“ Of late it has received the local name of ‘ Grey Box ’ from the splitters 
and saw-millers.” (A. W. Howitt, speaking of Gippsland.) “Yellow Box ” of the 
County of Cumberland, N.S.W. (see this page and also p. 60). “Bastard Box” 
of the County of Cumberland, N.S.W. (see this page and also p. 60). It is called 
“Bastard Box,” from a belief amongst some timber men that it is a tree of which the 
true Yellow Box (melliodora) is one of the parents. 
Aboriginal Name. — I believe “Togoygora” to have been a name in use by 
aborigines in the County of Cumberland, N.S.W., according to observations by 
George Caley (1800-1810). See Agric. Gazette N.S.JV., p. 989 (1903). 
Synonyms. —(1.) E. bicolor, Woolls ( Contrib . Flora of Australia, 232), non 
A. Cunn.; see also p. 7 of Part xi of the “ Critical Revision of the genus Eucalyptus.” 
In the Woollsian Herbarium, which is my property, there is a specimen in 
Dr. Woolls’ handwriting, bearing the following label:— 
“ Yellow or bastard Box, half-barked when young, nearly smooth when full- 
grown. Hard wood. Height, 120 feet. Cabramatta. E. bicolorP 
On another occasion Dr. Woolls labelled a similar specimen from Cabramatta 
E. largijlorens. 
There is no question as to the identity of this tree, even if his specimens did 
not make it quite clear. It is E. Bosistoana, P.v.M., is typical for the species, as 
determined by Mueller himself (Mueller first labelled this specimen E. odorata, 
Behr, and then E. Bosistoana), and the assumption that Woolls’ determination of 
the tree as E. bicolor was correct has given rise to some curious mistakes. See my 
paper, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., xxvii, 519 (1902), for a full account of the matter, 
(2.) E. odorata, Howitt, non Behr. See p. 58. 
Timber.— 
E. Bosistoana. — This tree has in many respects a superficial resemblance to E. melliodora , with 
which it was for a long time locally confounded in Gippsland, , , , , 
