TIMBERS. 501 
brown colour, very good to work, and a heavy timber. Diameter, 
36 to 48in. ; height, 100 to 15oft. 
Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. 
302. Eucalyptus patens, Benth., N.O., Myrtacez, B.FL, iii., 247. 
A “ Blackbutt.” 
This timber is considered durable; it is tough, and hence 
used for wheelwrights’ work; it does not split. (Mueller.) 
Diameter, up to 6ft.; height, up to rooft. 
South-western Australia. 
303. Eucalyptus pauciflora, Szeb., (Syn. ZL. coriacea, A. Cunn., 
(the species name in B.Fl.); Z. plebophylla, F.v.M.; £. 
submultiplinervis, Mig.; £. piperita, var. pauciflora, DC.; 
and £. procera, Dehn., (perhaps); N.O., Myrtaceze, B.FIL., iii., 
201. 
“White Gum.” ‘Mountain White Gum” (of the Blue Mountains, 
New South Wales), ‘‘Swamp Gum,” ‘“ Drooping Gum,” and “ Flooded 
Gum.” It is occasionally called “‘ Mountain Ash” and ‘ Peppermint.” 
In Tasmania it is known as “ Weeping Gum.” 
The wood, which is white in colour, is not of first-class 
quality, being rather soft and short-grained; it is, however, often 
used for fencing purposes. (J. E. Brown.) It is easy to cut, and of 
a lighter colour than the timber from most Eucalypts; it splits 
rarely, but it cannot readily be obtained in great lengths; it is 
excellent for fuel, but cannot be used underground. (G. W. 
Robinson). 
The following two specimens are in the Technological 
Museum: 1. “ Mountain White Gum.” Warm brown colour, 
close in grain, split, and with a gum-vein (Victoria). 2. A sample, 
No. 33, London Exh. Cat., 1862, and No. 263, Paris Exh. Cat., 
1855; is described ‘‘White Gum”’ of Berrima, “‘not of much value 
for timber, height of tree, 40 to 80ft.; diameter, 24 to goin.” It 
is of a yellow or buff colour, beautiful to work, straight in the 
grain, full of gum-veins, but looks exceptionally well under polish. 
Diameter, up to 4ft., with height of 1ooft. 
Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. 
