436 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
A tree called ‘“ White Gum,” or “Scribbly Gum,” in. the 
neighbourhood of Cambewarra* (between Moss Vale and Shoal- 
haven, New South Wales), has been pronounced by Baron Mueller 
to be £. botryoides. It has a height of 40 to 5oft., and a diameter 
of 2ft. On account of the abundant insect markings, and whitish, 
smooth appearance of the trunk, the author was inclined to think 
the tree £. hemastoma in the absence (at that time) of any 
botanical specimens. The outer bark is deciduous, and varies in 
colour from white, through yellow to light grey, and has an appear- 
ance which may best be described as “ soapy.”’ 
A slab of wood of this species from Victoria is in the Techno- 
logical Museum. It is of a warm rich brown colour, and of fine 
grain, but shows shakes and gum-veins. 
According to Bentham (4&./7.) a sample of timber exhibited 
by Mr. Edward Hill, 2o¢ by Sir William Macarthur (as stated 
in the Flora), at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, and marked g1, is 
of this species. It was also exhibited at the London Exhibition of 
1862, and marked 18. It came from Brisbane Water, where it 
bore the aboriginal name of “ Couranga,’’ and was also called 
“ Blue Gum” of the coast districts. It ‘‘ attains a diameter of 7ft. 
without natural unsoundness within ; considered to be the finest 
timber for ship-building, but not so hard, and probably not so 
durable as the Ironbarks.’’ Diameter, 40 to 6oin. ; height, roo to 
160ft. (See page 437.) 
The author is of opinion that the sample (No. 94, Caz. 
N.S.W. Timbers, Parts Exh. 1855, and No. 42, Lond. Exh., 
1862) should be referred to this species. The names given to it 
are in the Paris Catalogue ‘‘Rough-barked Gum,” name at 
Illawarra, and “Burram-burrang,”’ an aboriginal name at the same 
place; and in the London Catalogue: ‘‘ Swamp Mahogany”’ and 
‘“‘Bangalay,” both in use at Brisbane Water. Diameter, 30 to 
36in.; height, 40 to 8oft. ‘A good hardwood timber tree.” 
(Paris Catal.) ‘A crooked-growing tree, the timber much 
valued for knees and crooked timbers of coasting vessels. (London 
Catal.} It is of a light, dull red colour, close and straight in the 
grain, and easy to work. This sample has a shake in it. 
* This is the most southern locality yet recorded for this species. 
