506 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
308. Eucalyptus populifolia, Flook., (Syn. E. populnea, F.v.M. ; 
and including #. Jargiflorens var. parviflora, Benth.; LZ. 
platyphylla, F.v.M.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 214 and 
242. 
This tree is variously known as “‘ White Box,” ‘‘ Red Box,” “ Poplar 
Box,” and ‘‘Bimbil (or Bembil) Box.” Called ‘‘ Nankeen Gum” ‘in 
Northern Australia, from the peculiar light-brown colour of the bark, 
and ‘‘White Gum” in Queensland. ‘‘Egolla” of the natives of 
Northern Queensland. 
The timber is hard, heavy, close-grained, and durable; used 
for posts and building purposes, mauls and railway sleepers, etc., 
but at least fifty per cent. of the wood is unsound. It is of a grey 
or light brown colour, very tough and strong, hard to work, but is 
a handsome wood when polished. It is sometimes rather subject 
to gum-veins. A variety of this Eucalypt in Northern Queensland 
with enormous leaves, yields a very inferior wood, which, according 
to the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, is not used even for burning. 
Diameter, 24in.; height, 50 to 6oft. 
New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Australia. 
309. Eucalyptus punctata, DC., (Syn. Z. Stwartiana var. longt- 
Jolia, Benth., (partly); Z. sereticornis var. brachycorys, Benth.) ; 
N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 244. 
The tough bark of this tree earns for it the name of ‘ Leather-jacket.” 
In the neighbourhood of Twofold Bay it is called ‘‘ Hickory” and ‘‘ Tur- 
pentine.”” About the south-east coast it is often called ‘‘Grey Gum.” Other 
vernacular names are ‘‘ Red Gum,” “ Yellow Gum,” and ‘‘ Bastard Box.” 
The wood is tough, pale reddish-brown, extremely durable, 
hard, close-grained, difficult to split, and in use for fence posts, 
railway sleepers, wheelwrights’ work, and many other building 
purposes, in ship-building, etc. It is durable underground, though 
not equal in value to Ironbark; it affords also a superior fuel. 
(Mueller.) It is remarkable for its extreme hardness. (Woolls.) 
Following are particulars of two logs of small diameter in this. 
Museum: 1. Yellow sap-wood, red heart-wood, sound and well 
seasoned ; diameter 1ft. (Port Hacking.) 2. Rich brown, flawed 
with gum-veins, not good to work, seasons fairly well; diameter, 
1oin. (Macleay River.) 
