TIMBERS. A4t 
Piles, sleepers, buildings, and jetties, also find use for it. Baron: 
Mueller observes that it is less known to artizans than it deserves. 
‘A log in the Technological Museum (from an unknown 
New South Wales locality) is from a tree with a diameter of 2ft. 
It has seasoned to a warm brown, shells in concentric layers 
following the gum-veins, and dresses very well and readily. A 
slab of Victorian timber is of a dark-red colour, is straight.and 
close in the grain, but, as usual with this species, it is full of gum- 
veins. 
The timber exhibited under this species at the London 
Exhibition of 1862, and called ‘‘The True or Yellow Box of the 
county of Camden” is, of course, not of this species, the mistake 
being clerical. (See £. melliodora.) 
The timber exhibited (No. 103, Paris Exhibition, 1855, and 
No. 39, London Exhibition, 1862) under the name of ‘ Blood- 
tree”’ and “‘ Bloodwood” belongs to this species. In the Paris 
catalogue it is referredto as Z. paniculata, in error; in the London 
catalogue no species-name is given. The Camden aborigines used 
to give it the name of ‘‘Mannen.”” Diameter, 2 to 3ft.; height, 
50 to 120ft. “A fine-looking tree, its wood in bad repute for 
durability, but likely to be very good when not exposed to the 
weather.” (Paris Catal.) (These early descriptions are some- 
times not perfectly correct.) ‘A worthless sort of timber.” 
(London Catal.) It is dark reddish-brown, very easy to work, but 
porous, and full of gum-veins. 
At the Exhibition of 1862 there were exhibited two samples 
of timber (marked lviii. and lix. in the catalogue of N.S.W. 
timbers), both from “Clarence and Richmond open Forests.” 
Both were called by the aboriginals ‘“ Weni Aabie,”’ and the former 
by the colonists ‘‘Rough-barked Bloodwood,” and the latter 
““Smooth-barked Bloodwood.’’ They are thus described :— 
(Iviii-) ‘‘ Prevailing to a great extent; a tree of considerable size. 
Timber of great strength and very durable, both in and out of the 
ground. Used principally for posts and beams.” (lix.) ‘‘ This and 
the preceding are mere varieties of the species, and only to be 
distinguished from each other (by the bark?). Both are equally 
common, and used for the same purposes.” The author has 
