468 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
describes it as a short-grained, brittle, reddish wood, and states: 
that the variety mzcrantha (which perhaps should be restored to 
specific rank) is called “‘ Brittle Gum ”’ for obvious reasons. 
The following specimen of timber in the Technological 
Museum I have little hesitation in referring to this species. It 
was collected for the Exhibition of 1862, and bore the number 30, 
a piece of the same timber bearing the number 163 in the 
collection for the Paris Exhibition of 1855. It is called “ White 
Gum,” and bore the aboriginal names “Caarambuy” and 
‘“‘Calang-arra.’’ It was from a tree 24 to 4oin. in diameter, and 
60 to 8o0ft. in height. It is described as “‘not much valued, being 
generally of crooked growth.” It is beautiful to work; has a close, 
smooth grain, and a dark wavy, stripy red colour, almost like a 
she-oak in pattern. 
Diameter, 24 to 28in.; height, 60 to 120ft. 
Illawarra (New South Wales) to Wide Bay (Queensland). 
283. Eucalyptus hemiphlcia, “v.4Z., (Syn. £. albens, Miq.); 
N-©:,-Myrtaceze, Bul l., iit, 216. 
This is a common ‘“‘ Box” cf New South Wales and Queensland. In 
the latter colony it often goes by the name of ‘ Yellow Box.” Other 
colonial names are ‘“‘Canary Wood,” ‘Grey Box,” ‘‘ White Box,” and 
‘‘Gum-topped Box.’’ About Sydney it is called ‘‘ White Gum.” By the 
aboriginals of sub-tropical Eastern Australia it is known as “ Narulgun.” 
An excellent timber, famous for its hardness, toughness, and 
durability. (Hill.) It is remarkably heavy, yellow-white in colour, 
of great lateral strength, and is used for such purposes as railway 
sleepers, naves, felloes, scantlings, jetty and bridge piles, plankings, 
mining slabs, and fence posts. A great drawback to this tree 
is its tendency to become hollow at a comparatively early age. 
(J. E. Brown.) It is largely used by coachmakers and wheel- 
wrights for the naves of wheels and heavy framing; and by wheel- 
wrights for the cogs of wheels. It is employed in ship-building, 
and forms one of the best materials for treenails, and for working 
into large screws. It is' pale, strong, hard, of close and interlocked 
grain, and not fissile. It is useful for such articles as mauls and 
handles, which need toughness of wood for their manufacture. 
