522 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
“GUM TOP STRINGYBARK” (£. Sieberiana), EXPERI- 
MENTED UPON BY THE VICTORIAN TIMBER ~ 
BOARD, 1884. 
The samples tested were each 7ft. in length by 13in. square ; 
the distance between the bearings was 6ft.; and the weight was 
gradually applied in the centre until the sample broke. 
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Diameter, up to 5ft., with an exceptional height of 15oft. 
Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. 
Ban. Eucalyptus Staigeriana, F.v.M., N.O., Myrtacez, in Bailey’s 
Synop., Queensland Flora. (Muell. Cens., 3rd Annual 
Supplement, for 1885.) 
Called ‘‘ Lemon-scented Ironbark,” owing to the fragrance of its leaves. 
A tree of medium size. Wood of a red colour, hard, and 
durable. 
Queensland. 
322. Eucalyptus stellulata, (incl. by A. Cunn. with £. s¢ricfa, - 
and called 2. microphylla, which name was altered by G. Don 
to L. Cunningham); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 200. 
The “Box,” ‘* White Gum,” “ Lead Gum,” or “‘ Green Gum ” of East 
Gippsland, and New South Wales as far as the Blue Mountains. It is the 
“ Olive-green Gum ”’ of Leichhardt. In Gippsland it is known by the names 
of “Black Sallee” and ‘ Muzzle-wood.’” ‘Sallee,’’ or “ Sally,” and 
‘** Black Gum” are also names given to it in the Braidwood district. 
This wood is not valued. (Woolls.) It is used for fuel, and 
even for this purpose it is not of the first quality. Large areas on 
