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Victoria. 
It grows only in Gippsland, especially on limestone formations, commencing to the westward cf 
Bairnsdale, and extending beyond Lake Tyers. Unfortunately, it grew principally upon lands which were 
required for settlement, and consequently, immense quantities of this tree have been ringbarked. It is 
still found growing on some private lands, on some unalienated Crown lands, in the neighbourhood of Lake 
King, and in Cunninghame State Forest. (A. W. Howitt, in an unpublished report, 1895.) 
I have observed a small colony of E. Bosistoana (E. odorata in original) growing in South Gippsland, 
near Four-mile Creek. The occurrence of this tree in the Miocene limestones of North Gippsland falls in 
with the statement made by Baron von Mueller that it occurs upon limestone areas at St. Vincent’s Gulf.* 
(A. W. Howitt, loc. cit., p. 95.) 
It grows principally on the Miocene limestones in the littoral tracts of North Gippsland. (A. W. 
Howitt in a letter to me.) 
New South Wales. 
Following is a copy of a label by Oldfield (dated 1866), in Herb. Barbey- 
Boissier:—“Box-tree.—Tree, 160 feet; bark dark grey, spongy on trunk; limbs 
very white, soft to the touch, like velvet. Stony Banges, called Mountain Hut 
Bange, near Eden, Twofold Bay.” Later, the label bears the name E. leucoxylon 
in Oldfield’s handwriting. The specimens are E. Bosistoana, F.v.M. 
There are similar specimens in Herb. Cant, labelled “ No. _LX Eucalyptus 
leucoxylon, F.M., ‘ Box-tree,’ New South Wales, Hb. Oldfield,” and, doubtless, in 
other herbaria. 
This is the key, in my opinion, to the use of the name “ Box ” having been 
attached to E. leucoxylon. The name Box is never used in Australia for true 
E. leucoxylon, so far as my experience goes. If it is so used, it must be very rarely. 
Bega district; also “ Bed, Grey, White Box,” Cobargo (J. S. Allan); Mt. 
Dromedary (Miss Bate); “ Grey Box,” Noorooma (A. Langley); abounds in Wagonga 
district (F. B. Benson); “Grey Box” (J. V. de Coque); and “Bed Box” 
(J. S. Allan), both in the Moruya district; Lower Araluen (J.II.M.); Milton; also 
“ Yellow Box,” West Daplo (B-. H. Cambage); “ Box ” or “ White Box ” of 
Bazorback, 4 miles from Wingello (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman); Marulan 
(A. Murphy). {E. Bosistoana, from Marulan, was provisionally determined by 
F. v.M. as E. bicolor many years ago.) Bullio to Wombevan (B. H. Cambage and 
J.H.M.). 
Cabramatta district, County of Cumberland, occurring between Bankstown 
and the Cabramatta Bailway Station, and also thence tovBringelly and Cabramatta 
(now Bossmore). 
Woolls’ Cabramatta specimens, already referred to, have large, plump flower- 
buds ; there are no fruits. 
“ There used to be some large trees of it near Bringelly, growing in a swampy 
place. Wood reddish-yellow and very tough when dry.” (AY. Woolls.) 
* This is true as regards E. odorata, but it remains to be proved that E. Bosistoana extends into South Australia. 
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