Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

Poplar Box—
<i>Eucalyptus populifolia</i>, Hook.

Red Box—
<i>Eucalyptus populifolia</i>, Hook.;
<i>E. polyanthema</i>, Schau.;
<i>Tristania
conferta</i>, R. Br.

Thozet's Box—
<i>Eucalyptus raveretiana</i>, F. v. M.

White Box—
<i>Eucalyptus hemiphloia</i>, F. v. M.;
<i>E. odorata</i>, Behr.;
<i>E. populifolia</i>, Hook.;
<i>Tristania conferta</i>, R. Br.

Yellow Box—
<i>Eucalyptus hemiphloia</i>, F. v. M.
<i>E. largiflorens</i>, F. v. M.
<i>E. melliodora</i>, A. Cunn.

1820. John Oxley, `Two Expeditions,' p. 126:

"The country continued open forest land for about three miles, the cypress and the bastard-box being the prevailing timber; of the former many were useful trees."

1838. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions, vol. ii. p. 55:

"The small kind of tree . . . which Mr. Oxley, I believe, terms the dwarf-box, grows only on plains subject to inundation . . . . It may be observed, however, that all permanent waters are invariably surrounded by the `yarra.' These peculiarities are only ascertained after examining many a hopeless hollow, where grew the `goborro' only; and after I had found my sable guides eagerly scanning the `yarra' from afar, when in search of water, and condemning any view of the `goborro' as hopeless during that dry season."

[See <i>Yarra</i>, a tree.]