TIMBERS. 507 
A tree called “Grey Gum”’ in the neighbourhood of Cam- 
bewarra,* New South Wales, has been pronounced by Baron 
Mueller to be of this species. It has a height of 40 to soft., and 
a diameter of 2ft. The bark is smooth, deciduous, and usually 
looks grey in large patches, hence the local name. The part of 
the trunk not occupied by patches of persistent bark is a dirty 
white, which dries to a dark reddish-buff, bark solid, and one inch 
in thickness. The timber is red, hard, and heavy, much 
resembling in those characteristics the “ Red Ironbark”’ of the 
district (? £. panzculata), and by some bushmen considered equal 
to it, by others not much liked because (they say) the fibre is too 
short. Mr. Bauerlen tells me he has a cabinet specimen which is 
frequently pronounced to be ‘“‘Ironbark’’ by people who have a 
good knowledge of Australian hardwoods. Height, about 1ooft. 
New South Wales. 
310. Eucalyptus pyriformis, Zurcz., (Syn. L. pruinosa, Turcz. ; 
E. erythrocalyx, F.v.M.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 226. 
Amongst the settlers at Fowler’s Bay (South Australia) it is known as 
the “ Ooldea Mallee,” from the circumstance of its occurrence at Ooldea. 
(R. Tate, quoted by J. E. Brown.) 
A small tree, but the timber is hard, heavy, durable, and 
yellow-white in colour. (J. E. Brown.) 
Western and South Australia. 
Sr, Eucalyptus Raveretiana, /.v.JZ., N.O., Myrtaceex, F.v.M., 
Fragm., X., 99. 
“ Grey Gum,” “Iron Gum,” and ‘‘Thozet’s Box;” also ‘‘ Woolly- 
butt.” 
The wood is durable, dark coloured, excessively hard, and 
valuable for underground piles and railway sleepers, and many 
other purposes; it will resist the heaviest blow. (Bowman and 
Thozet.) Baron Mueller expresses the opinion that this will prove 
a useful species in wet tropical countries for the comparatively 
speedy production of a hardwood timber. It is of a dark drab 
* The most southern locality yet recorded for this species. 
