444 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
izin. long, to bear g7olbs. before breaking. Diameter, 20 to 
36in.; height, 70 to goft. 
Coastal districts of Queensland and New South Wales, from 
near the Gulf of Carpentaria to Port Jackson. . 
270. Eucalyptus diversicolor, /.v.J/., (Syn. 2. colossea, F.v.M. ; 
and incl. £. gontantha, Turcz. (considered a separate species 
in B.FI., iii., 248); B.FL., iti., 251. 
Commonly known as “ Karri,’ but in its native habitat to a limited 
‘extent as ‘Blue Gum.” 
The wood is light-coloured, bends freely, is straight in the 
grain, and tough, but is not so easily wrought as £. marginata 
(Jarrah) ; it is particularly in request for large planks, and also 
for spokes, felloes, and rails; it has also come into use for ship- 
building—for planks, rudders, and even masts. A case is on 
record of a baulk of this timber which had been exposed in the 
wash of the tides at Cape Leeuwin for twenty-six years, continuing 
sound. The durability of this timber for lengthened periods 
underground yet remains to be proved. (Mueller.) In an official 
report it is stated that this-Eucalypt covers 2,300 square miles of 
‘country. 
“The wood is red in colour (Baron Mueller speaks of it as 
light-coloured, supra), hard, heavy, strong, tough, and slightly 
wavy or curled in the grain, but it has no figure to recom- 
mend it for cabinet purposes. Six logs of this timber, viz.: two of 
12X 12in.x 28it., one of 12x I2in. x 34ft., twoof 24 x 24in.x 24ft., 
and one of 24 x 24in. x 32ft., were recently shipped at Fremantle 
by the Western Australian Government for delivery at one of the 
Royal Dockyards in England, for experimental trial in the navy, 
the colonists being of opinion that it will ere long be in great 
request for ship-building and other architectural works. Unfortu- 
nately all these logs had the defect of star-shake, which rendered 
them unfit for almost any purpose except where they could be 
employed in very large scantlings. It was also noticed that the 
Karri had the peculiar blistery appearance of the annual layers, 
also common to the Jarrah, consequently. this wood is not con- 
sidered to be suitable for any work requiring nicety of finish} 
