426 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
“Tt is said that this wood will keep away the B/asta or cock- 
roach. I cannot confirm this statement. I had a good-sized 
billet cut and planed, and the odour from it was so strong as to 
perfume one of my trunks in which it was placed, but the cock- 
roaches treated it with the utmost disdain. They ran over it and 
laid their eggs under it just as if it had been put there for their 
accommodation.” (Tenison-Woods, Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S. W., 
vii., 574.) Diameter, g to 12in.; height, 20 to 3oft. 
South Australia, New South Wales and Queensland. 
254. Eremophila Sturtii, 2.2r., N.O., Myoporinez, B.FI., v., 21- 
‘© Scentless Sandal-wood.” 
A tall shrub ; wood of a grey colour, hard, close-grained, 
and nicely marked. 
South Australia and New South Wales. 
255. Erythrina indica, Zam., (Syn. £. Corallodendron, Forst., 
non Linn.); N.O., Leguminosz, B.FI., ii., 253. 
“Indian Coral Tree.” 
In India and the Straits Settlements this tree is employed for 
supporting the weak stems of the pepper plant, for which purpose 
it is kept dwarf. It affords a very soft, porous wood, greatly 
used in India for making toys, light boxes, and similar articles, 
which are usually overlaid with a thick coating of varnish or 
lacquer. (Zreasury of Botany.) Its weight is about 18lb. to the 
cubic foot (Gamble, Manual of Indian Timbers). It is soon 
attacked by insects. 
New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Australia. 
256. Erythrina vespertilio, Bentham, N.O., Leguminose, B.F1., 
ily, 253. 
“Batswing Coral.” ‘‘Coral Tree.” ‘Cork Tree.” “ Heilaman 
Tree.” ‘Wotheugn” of some Queensland aboriginals. 
The wood is soft, and used by the aborigines for making 
their “‘ heilamans,”’ or shields. It is exceedingly light and spongy, 
and of the greatest difficulty to work up to get anything like a 
surface for polishing. A slab of this wood in the Technological 
Museum, which has been seasoned over twenty-five years (having 
