246 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
solves readily in water, forming a very pale-coloured solution of a 
bright orange-brown colour. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
24. Bucalyptus pilularis, Smth, N.O., Myrtacezx, B.FI., iii., 208. 
“Blackbutt.” (For other names and synonyms, see ‘‘ Timbers.”) 
Specimens collected by the author so closely resemble, in 
outward appearance, the kino of £. pzperzta, as scarcely to be 
distinguished from it. It dissolves readily in water, forming a 
comparatively pale solution. 
Victoria to Queensland. 
25. Eucalyptus piperita, Smzth, (Syn. £. acervula, Sieb.); N.O., 
Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 207. 
“Blackbutt.”’ ‘‘ Messmate.” ‘ Narrow, or Almond-leaved Stringy- 
bark.’ (For other vernacular names, see ‘‘ Timbers.”’) 
This is another kino of the Z. amygdalina type. It can be 
procured in fairly large quantities. It yielded the author 99.75 
per cent. of extract to water, and 62.12 per cent. of kino-tannic 
acid. (Proc. R.S., N.S.W., 1887, p. 192.) 
Gippsland, New South Wales and Queensland. 
26. Bucalyptus Planchoniana, 7.v-47, N.O., Myrtaceze, F.v.M., 
Fragm., Xie 
“This kino is of very great astringency, and, therefore, parti- 
cularly valuable for therapeutic purposes ; after adherent impurities 
are removed by alcohol it is found to be composed mainly of kino- 
tannic acid, the percentage being 93.88 of that acid, the rest (6.12) 
consisting simply of real gum, and seems quite free of gallic acid.” 
(Mueller, Lucalyptographia.) 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
27. Eucalyptus punctata, DC. ; N.O., Myrtacez, B.FIL., iii., 244. 
“Grey Gum” and “‘ Leather-jacket.” (For other names and synonyms, 
see ‘* Timbers.”) 
This kino, especially when in large masses, somewhat re- 
sembles Hepatic Aloes in appearance, but it is far more brittle 
than that substance, crumbling without much difficulty by pressure 
of the fingers. Its colour may be described of a very dark brown, 
