524 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
for flooring-boards. 3. No. 32, London Cat., 1862; 142, Paris 
Exh., 1855. ‘‘ Woolly Gum ”’ of Berrima. Diameter, 24 to 48in. ; 
height, 40 to Soft. ‘A tree often of beautiful form, but the timber 
weak and worthless.” It is of alight, warm, wavy red colour, good 
to work, but full of gum-veins, and obviously not of much value. 
This is the smooth-barked variety of Z. Stuartiana. Diameter, 
24 to 40in.; height, 60 to goft. 
This tree has succeeded admirably at Abbottabad, Punjab, 
India. (Gamble.) 
EXPERIMENTS ON THE TRANSVERSE STRENGTH OF THE Woop oF 
Zt. Stuartiana, by Baron Mueller and J.G.Luehmann. The 
specimens were 2ft. long and 2in. square. 
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Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. 
E. subulatum, 
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324. Eucalyptus tereticornis, Smz‘h, (Syn. 
A. Cunn.; Leplospermum umbellatum, 
Myrtacee, B.FI., iii., 241. 
Called ‘ Red Gum,” “ Flooded Gum,” “ Grey Gum,” ‘‘ Blue Gum,” 
**Slaty Gum ” in New South Wales and Queensland. In Southern New 
South Wales it is often called ‘‘ Mountain Gum.” In Northern New South 
Wales it sometimes bears the misleading name of ‘‘ Bastard Box.” By the 
aboriginals of Northern New South Wales and Southern Queensland it-is 
called ‘‘ Mungurra,” or “ Mungara,” and by the aboriginals of Central 
Queensland “‘ Arangnulla.” 
Timber used in fencing, building, plough beams, poles and 
shafts of drays, and also in ship-building; for railway ties, cart- 
wrights’ work, telegraph poles, and largely for fencing, girders, etc., 
and forms a superior fuel. « It is heavy and close-grained, and very 
much like cedar in colour. 
