396 THE EXAMINATION OF EUCALYPTUS KINOS, 



Moisture 193 



Ash -8 



100-00 

 Tannic acid determination (Lowenthal), 23-873 per cent. 



Eucalyptus melliodora, A. Cunn., B.F1. iii. 210. 

 No. 42. The ordinary " Yellow Box." Kino received from 

 Baron von Mueller, July, 1891. In very small pieces of a light 

 brown colour, both in colour and appearance resembling small 

 currants ; powders between the fingers to a light yellow colour. 

 I have not sufficient for a complete investigation, but I place it 

 here from a general examination. 



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Eucalyptus fasciculosa, F.v.M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. Vol. I. 



(1854). 



This species has long been looked upon as a form of E. paniculata, 

 Sm. (see B.F1. iii. 211, and Decade 5, Mueller's Eucalyptographia). 

 As the discrimination of the two species is important, I think it 

 necessary to go into the matter with a little detail. 



Under the name of E. paniculata are usually enumerated two 

 distinct trees, viz. : — A New South Wales ironbark (the tree on 

 which Smith founded the species), and a (Victorian and) South 

 Australian white gum, with smoothish white bark as its name 

 denotes. The timbers of the two trees are also totally different. 

 This confusion caused Bentham to write (B.F1. iii. 211), "The 

 notes on the bark uncertain." In making a rough grouping of 

 Eucalypts according to the vernacular names, he adopts the name 

 " White Gum," B.F1. iii. 189, and leaves it out of the list of 

 " Ironbarks." 



I give a few notes on the trees known as E. paniculata in the 

 colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. I 

 have not dwelt upon the inflorescence and fruits, as these are 

 palpably similar in the various trees referred to, and afford an 

 instance in which determinations from such material break down. 

 To discriminate between certain Eucalypts, the bark, timber, or 

 kino (or all three), should be taken into consideration. 



