146 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Eucalyptus saligna, Smith. 



The Blue or Flooded Gumtree of New South Wales. A tall 

 straight-stemmed species, attaining a stem-diameter of 7 feet. Ac- 

 cording to the Rev. Dr. Woolls the wood is of excellent quality, and 

 largely used for building purposes. The tree is generally found on 

 rich soil along river-banks. 



Eucalyptus salubris, F. v. Mueller. 



The Gimletwood or Fluted Gumtree of Western and Central 

 Australia, living on poor dry soil and in the hottest desert clime. It 

 is generally a slender-stemmed tree, sometimes to 100 feet high, and 

 . to 2 feet in stem-diameter, with scanty foliage. The bark is shining 

 with a brownish tinge, and has broad longitudinal and often twisted 

 impressions, or roundish blunt longitudinal ridges. The wood is hard 

 and tough, but worked with comparative ease, heavier than water, 

 even when dry. It serves locally for roof-supports, fence-posts and 

 rails, poles and shafts. For xylography it seems better than Pear- 

 tree-wood, and deserves attention for this purpose. The tree exudes 

 kino. 



Eucalyptus siderophloia, Bentham.* 



The Large-leaved or White Ironbark-tree of New South Wales and 

 South-Queensland, attaining a height of 150 feet. According to the 

 Rev. Dr. Woolls this furnishes one of the strongest and most durable 

 timbers of New South Wales; with great advantage used for railway- 

 sleepers and for many building purposes. It is likewise highly appre- 

 ciated by wheelwrights, especially for spokes, also well adapted for 

 tool-handles and various implements. Found by us to be even 

 stronger than hickory, and only rivalled by E. Leucoxylon. It is 

 harder than the wood of E. Leucoxylon, but for this reason worked 

 with more difficulty. The Melbourne price of the timber is about 

 2s. 6d. per cubic foot in the log. The tree yields much kino. Mr. 

 Newbery obtained from the bark 8 to 10 per cent, tannin. This 

 species is often confounded with E. resinifera in culture. 



Eucalyptus Sieberiana, F. v. Mueller. (E. virr/ata, Bentham, not Sieber. ) 

 South-Ea stern Australia. Vernacularly known as Mountain-ash 

 in Gippsland and New South Wales, and as Jronbark-tree or Gum- 

 top in Tasmania. A straight-stemmed tree, reaching 150 feet in 

 height and 5 feet in stem-diameter. The wood is of excellent quality, 

 strong and elastic, hence used for ship-building, implement-handles, 

 cart-shafts, swingle-trees, also for fencing and for general building 

 purposes. It splits freely, and is easy to work. It burns well, even 

 when freshly cut. Systematically the species is very closely allied to 

 E. haemastoma, but much superior as a timber-tree. 



Eucalyptus Staigeriana, F. v. Mueller. 



North-Queensland. Durable. A rather small tree, .allied to E. 

 crebra. Wood reddish but twisted. Produces readily new shoots 

 from the root (G. Wycliffe). Foliage delightfully fragrant, there- 



