144 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



It furnishes a very hard, durable, dark-colored wood, valuable for 

 piles, railway-sleepers, and general building purposes (Thozet, 

 O'Shanesy, Bowman). From cuts into the stem an acidulous almost 

 colorless liquid exudes, available in considerable quantity, like that of 

 E. Gunnii. 



Eucalyptus redunca, Schauer.* 



The White Gumtree of Western Australia, the Wandoo of the 

 aborigines. Attains very large dimensions; stems ha-ve been found 

 with a diameter of 17 feet. The bark is whitish, but not shining, 

 imparting a white coloration when rubbed (Hon. J. Forrest). The tree 

 is content with cold flats of comparatively poor soil, even where 

 humidity stagnates during the wet season. It furnishes a pale, hard, 

 tough, heavy and durable wood, highly prized for all kinds of wheel- 

 wrights' work, and especially supplying the best felloes in West- 

 Australia. The seasoned timber weighs about 70 Ibs. per cubic foot. 



Eucalyptus resinifera, Smith.* 



The Red Mahogany-Eucalypt of South-Queensland and New 

 South Wales. A superior timber-tree, of large size. Wood much 

 prized for its strength and durability (Rev. Dr. Woolls). This 

 Eucalyptus has proved one of the best adapted for a tropical clime; 

 it grew 45 feet in ten years at Lucknow, but in the best soil it has 

 attained 12 feet in two years (Dr. Bonavia). Proved in Italy nearly 

 as hardy a E. amygdalina and E. viminalis, according to Prince 

 Troubetzkoy, but is often confounded with E. siderophloia. A large- 

 leaved variety extends far into the tropics. 



Eucalyptus robusta, Smith.* 



New South Whales and Southern Queensland, where it is known as 

 Swamp-Mahogany. It attains a height of 1 00 feet and a stem-girth 

 of 12 feet, bearing a really grand mass of foliage. Resists cyclones 

 better than most of its congeners. The wood is remarkably durable, 

 reckoned a fairly good timber for joists, also used for ship-building, 

 wheelwrights' work and many implements, for instance such as 

 mallets. The tree seems to thrive well in low, sour swampy ground 

 near the sea-coast, where other Eucalypts look sickly but E. robusta 

 the picture of health (W. Kirton). 



Eucalyptus rostrata, Schlechtendal.* 



The Red Gumtree of Southern Australia and many river-flats in 

 the interior of the Australian continent, nearly always found on moist 

 ground with a clayey subsoil. It will thrive in ground, periodically 

 inundated for a considerable time, and even in slightly saline places. 

 Attains exceptionally a height of 200 feet with a comparatively slight 

 stem, but is mostly of a more spreading habit of growth than the 

 majority of its tall congeners. Prof. Tate measured a tree on Mount 

 Lofty which showed a stem-girth of 25 feet. Mr. R. G. Drysdale of 

 the Riverina-district observed,' that an exceptional temperature of 



