170 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



other 120 species of Eucalypts, only one rival. This oil has 

 come already into commerce through Mr. Jeffries Tunbury's 

 distillery at Port Curtis ; it contains no Eucalyptol [Schimmel]. 

 Fresh foliage splendid for strewing about rooms or placing in large 

 vases for fragrance and sanitary purposes also. Very closely allied 

 to E. maculata, and perhaps only a variety. Particularly adapted 

 for a tropical jungle-clime. Dislikes frost. 



Eucalyptus coccifera, J. Hooker. 



Tasmania. Although only a subalpine form of E. amygdalina, 

 it may for cultural purposes be regarded as a very distinct tree. 

 Withstood the severest winters of Wimbleton [J. Colebrook]. 



Bucalyptus cordata, La Billardiere. 



Southern Tasmania. Maximum height, 50 feet ; flowering in a 

 shrubby state already. The variety E. urnigera (J. Hooker) is 

 particularly hardy, and may become of sanitary importance to 

 colder countries in malarian regions, the foliage being much imbued 

 with antiseptic oil. Greatest height of E. urnigera'150 feet ; stem- 

 diameter to 6 feet [Abbott]. 



Eucalyptus cornuta. La Billardiere.* 



/ The Yate-tree of South- Western Australia. A large tree of rapid 

 / growth, preferring a somewhat humid soil. The wood is used for 

 / various artisans' work, and preferred there for the strongest shafts 

 | and frames of carts and other work requiring hardness, toughness 

 1 and elasticity, and is considered equal to ordinary ash-wood. The 

 \tree appears to be well adapted for tropical comitriggj as Dr. 

 jBonavia reports, that it attained a height of 8 to 10 feet in the first 

 year of its growth at Lucknow, and that the plants did not suffer 

 in the rainy season like many other Eucalypts. Thrives also par- 

 ticularly well at the city of Algiers [Prof. Bourlier]. The dry 

 wood sinks in water. E. occidentalis (Endlicher) is the flat-topped 

 Yate, an allied and equally valuable species of South-Western 

 Australia. This species along with E. amygdalina, E. eugenioides, 

 E. globulus, E. Grunnii, E. marginata, E. obliqua, E. rostrata E. 

 Stuartiana and E. viminalis are mentioned by Bargellini to have 

 well succeeded in Istria, where they were first introduced by the 

 writer of this work. 



Enclayptus corymbosa, Smith.* 



The principal Bloodwood-tree of New South Wales and Queens- 

 land. A tree attaining large dimensions ; it has a rough furrowed 

 bark and a dark-reddish wood, soft when fresh, but very hard when 

 dry ; very durable under-ground, and therefore extensively used 

 for fence-posts, rails, railway-sleepers and rough building-purposes. 

 Fence-posts from this tree showed hardly any decay after 40 years 

 [R. Crawford), but it is too much traversed by kino to serve for 

 sawn-timber. The bark is rich in kino, which yields about 28 per 

 cent, of tannic acid, while the percentage of tan in completely 

 dried leaves is about 18 [Maiden]. 



