A476 ECONOMIC FORESTRY. 
Through the instrumentality of Baron Ferdinand von Miiller, to 
whom Australian botany is so deeply indebted, several valuable 
exotic species, such as the Douglas fir, the Deodar, and the Welling- 
tonia, have been successfully introduced into Victoria. 
Soutu AUSTRALIA. 
As in Victoria, so in South Australia, the Lucalypti, mislead- 
ingly termed “ gum trees,” since their produce is not a gum, but a 
kino, form the staple of the timber supply. Caswarina, or “ oak,” 
yields woods suitable for axe-handles, spokes, ete. Acacia melan- 
oxylon is the most useful of some thirty species of that genus ; and 
there is a native “pine” (Callitris robusta), the wood of which, 
however, is not durable. The forest area is not large. The chief 
species, as represented at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, are 
the following :— 
Acacia aneura, F. v. M. 
A, decurrens, Willd. 
A, homalophylia, A. Cunn. ‘‘ Myall.” 
A. melanoxylon, R. Br. ‘‘ Blackwood.” 
A. pycnantha, Benth. ‘* Broad-leaf 
“ Mulga.”’ 
** Black wattle.” 
E. goniocalyx, F.v.M. ‘‘ Bastard box.” 
EL. hemiphloia, F. vy. M. 
E. leucoxylon, F. v. M. 
E. maculata, Hook. 
E. obliqua, W’ Hérit. 
” 
** Box gum. 
** Blue gum. 
‘* Marbled gum.” 
‘* Stringybark.” 
”? 
wattle.” £. odorata, Behr. ‘‘ Peppermint gum.” 
A, retinodes, Schlecht. ‘‘Silver | Z. paniculata,Sm. ‘‘ Swamp gum,” 
wattle.” E. rostrata, Schlecht. ‘‘ Red gum.” 
A. salicina, Lindl. ‘‘ Broughton | £. Stuartiana, ¥. v. M. 
willow.” E. viminalis, Lab. ‘‘ Manna gum.” 
Banksia marginata, Cay. ‘‘ Honey- | Exocarpus cupressiformis, Lab, ‘‘ Na- 
suckle.” tive cherry.” 
Bursaria spinosa, Cay. ‘* Native box.” 
Callitris robusta, R. Br. ‘‘Native pine.” 
Casuarina glauca, Sieb. ‘‘ Black oak.” 
C. quadrivalvis, Labill. ‘‘ She oak.” 
Evremophila longifolia, F. v. M. 
Eucalyptus capitellata, Sm. ‘‘ Head- 
flowered stringybark.” 
E. coccifera, Hook. fil. 
LE. corynocalyx,¥.v.M. ‘‘Sugar gum.” 
Grevillea robusta, A. Cunn. 
Livistona australis, Mart. ‘* Northern 
Territory cabbage-palm.” 
Melalewa leucadendron, L. ‘*‘ Milk- 
wood.” 
M. squarrosa, Sm. ‘* Bottle-brush tea 
tree.” 
Pittosporum phillyreoides, DC. ‘‘ Poi- 
son-berry tree.” 
Here, too, various European species have been introduced, 
chiefly by Sir R. Schomburgk, such as elm, ash, plane, false acacia, 
and Aleppo pine. 
West AUSTRALIA. 
Comprising, as it is estimated to do, over a million square miles, 
the whole of West Australia may be said to be forest, but nearly 
