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tried without success in the Simla hiUs and also on the plains of northern 

 India. 



66. Eucalyptus Smithii, R. T. Baker. White top, gully ash. 



A tall tree \^ith furrowed dark grey bark, smooth on the branches and 

 upper bole. New South Wales, in the south coastal districts. Has recently 

 been tried on the plains of northern India, but does not show much promise. 



67. Eucalyptus stellulata, Sieb. 



A small or moderate-sized tree with dense foHage and rough dark some- 

 what scaly bark, smooth and greenish on the branches. Wood a good fuel, 

 but not much in request as timber. Victoria and New South Whales, along 

 elevated river valleys or flats and on mountain sides up to the sub-alpine 

 zone. Has recently been tried on the plains of northern India, but does not 

 show much promise. 



Eucalyptus stricta, Sieb., see 74. E. virgata, Sieb. 



68. Eucalyptus Stuartiana, F. v. M. But-but, apple-scented gum.. 

 Stanthorpe box. 



A small to moderate-sized tree with drooping branchlets, and often with 

 a twisted stem ; bark persistent, fibrous, soft. Wood hard, tough, and durable. 

 South Austraha, Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania, on sandy and ' 

 moist tracts, often on low ridges, sometimes on river flats, where it reaches 

 a fair size ; Queensland, on poor ground. It is grown in the Nilgiris (Cairn 

 Hill, block III), where, according to Mr. R. Bourne, several of the trees have 

 been killed by cattle and deer, which tear off and eat the succulent bark. It 

 has been tried in the Simla hills since 1909, and so far has done well between 

 4,000 and 7,000 ft., and moderately well below 4,000 ft. elevation. It has 

 been tried on the plains of northern India, but has proved quite unsuitable. 



69. Eucalyptus tereticornis, Smith. Grey gum, forest red gum. 



A tall handsome tree. Bark smooth, whitish or greyish, more or less 

 deciduous. Wood reddish, close grained, tough, and diu-able, used for building 

 and many other purposes. Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, never far 

 from the Kttoral regions, and usually found on fertile ground on humid flats, 

 around swamps and lakes, or along watercourses, never on sahne ground or 

 along salt-water streams ; stunted if found on rocky exposed locahties. Under 

 favourable conditions the growth is rapid. It does well on sandy soil, even if 

 comparatively dry, but not on hard dry soil. In Florida trees have withstood 

 temperatures of 20 and 22 F., but were frozen back at 19 F., although not 

 permanently injured ; in CaUfornia it is said to endure lower temperatures 

 and to withstand drought well, while in Provence and Algeria it has grown 

 well on low, marshy tracts where the soil is deep, and in Brazil on inundated 

 soil where E. rosirata could not be grown successfully.^ The tree coppices 

 excellently. At Abbottabad coppice-shoots attained in one year a height of 

 15 ft. and a girth of 7Hn., and in 5| years a girth of 22 in. At Dehra Dun the 

 branches have been found rather liable to breakage by wind. Parker says it 

 was severely damaged by frost at Abbottabad in 1905, but not so much as 

 E. Globulus or many of the indigenous trees. 



The tree has been grown in the Nilgiris ; Mr. Bourne mentions a specimen 

 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and 60 ft. high in Sim's Park, and adds that a whole planta- 



^ Zon and Briscoe, loc. ciL, p. 28. 



