500 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
since it is almost invariably hollow, both in trunk and branches. 
(J. E. Brown.) A Victorian sample in the Technological Museum 
may be thus described: “ Peppermint.’’ Light brown colour, 
close, fine and straight in the grain. 
South Australia, Victoria and south-east New South Wales. 
300. Eucalyptus pallidifolia, “v.47, N.O., Myrtacex, B.FI., iii., 
236. 
The wood of this small tree is yellow near the bark, the rest 
red, hard, close-grained, and prettily mottled. 
Northern Australia. 
301. Eucalyptus paniculata, Smith, (Syn. E. terminalis, Sieb.; 
E. fasctculosa, F.v.M., including 2. paniculata var. fasciculosa, 
Benth.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FL., iii., 211. 
Occasionally called ‘‘ Bloodwood.” It is the ‘‘Red Ironbark” of the 
New South Wales coastal districts, and, because its wood is paler than that 
of its congeners, it is also known as ‘“‘ White Ironbark,” or ‘‘ She 
Ironbark.” 
This wood is in good repute for durability. It is much used 
for posts for fencing, also for railway works, such as bridges, 
sleepers, carriages, etc. It is useful for large beams in buildings, 
stores for heavy goods, and for other purposes where great strength 
is required. Mr. George Hutchinson tells me that at Chiltern, 
Victoria, he has cut down one of these trees, split the timber, and 
as speedily as possible constructed a puddling machine. He 
states that it wears well and shrinks but little. A log in the Tech- 
nological Museum, from the northern districts of New South Wales, 
is of a light-brown colour, heavy, seasons fairly well, is good to 
dress, and is from a tree 18in. in diameter. Another sample was 
No. 1, V.S.W. Cat. London Exh., 1862, and No. 83, Exh. Paris, 
1855. It is styled “‘ White,” or ‘‘ Pale Ironbark,” and aboriginal 
name at Illawarra, ‘‘ Barremma,” Diameter, 36 to 48in.; height, 
80 to 120ft. . . . ‘*The most valuable, perhaps, of all the 
Jronbarks, remarkable for its smooth, uniform outer bark, and its 
very hard, tough, inlocked, strong wood.’’ It is of a dirty dark 
