202 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Eucalyptus pauciflora, Sieber. (E. coriacea, A. Cunningham.) 



Vernacularly known as White gumtree, Drooping gumtree or 

 Swamp-gumtree. New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania. A tree 

 of handsome appearance, with a smooth white bark and generally 

 drooping foliage ; it attains considerable dimensions, grows best in 

 moist ground, ascends to alpine elevations, and thus is one of the 

 hardiest of all its congeners. Even small seedlings are not injured 

 by the winters of Arran : grew there 20 feet in seven years [Rev. D. 

 Landsborough]. Can be grown as an antimalarian tree, where rather 

 severe frosts occur, with E. amygdalina, E. coccifera, E. urnigera. 

 It shows a preference for' basaltic soil. Horses, cattle and sheep 

 browse readily on the foliage. It is locally a " stand-by " in bad 

 pastoral seasons. Its timber is used for ordinary building and fenc- 

 ing purposes. For quickly producing fuel one of the best of trees 

 [A. R. Crawford]. Also a rich yielder of kino, which is soluble in 

 water as well as in alcohol. 



Eucalyptus phcenicea, F. v. Mueller. 



Carpentaria and Arnhem's Land. Of the quality of the timber 

 hardly anything is known, but the brilliancy of its scarlet flowers 

 recommends this species fora place in any park-plantation of countries 

 with a serene clime. 



Eucalyptus pilularis, Smith.* 



The Black-butt of South-Queensland, New South Wales and 

 Gippsland. One of the best timber-yielding trees about Sydney ; of 

 rather rapid growth [Rev. Dr. Woolls]. Exceptionally rising to 300 

 feet. At Bulli a stem expanded by buttresses to 57 feet girth at the 

 base ; the stem measured 40 feet in circumference at 6 feet from the 

 ground. More branching out when young than many other species, 

 and thus fitter for storm-exposed localities [H. L. Holmes]. Timber 

 much used for flooring-boards, also for railway-sleepers and telegraph- 

 poles, and for wood-bricks in street-paving in Sydney. Weight of a 

 cubic foot of absolutely dry wood from 50 to 56 Ibs., equal to specific 

 gravity 0'803-0'897 [F. v. M. and Rummel]. The kino of this tree 

 is soluble as well in water as in alcohol [J. H. Maiden]. 



Eucalyptus piperita, Smith. 



New South Wales and Gippsland, often termed Peppermint Stringy- 

 bark-tree. It grows to a considerable height, and its stem attains a 

 diameter of four feet. The wood is fissile, and used for the same 

 purposes as that of other Striugyfeark-trees. The kino is soluble in 

 water as well as in alcohol. The foliage is rich in volatile oil, and 

 yields also, according to Mr. J. H. Maiden, a comparatively large 

 percentage of kino-tannin, about 12| per cent, from perfectly dried 

 leaves. All Eucalypts with strong-scented foliage are useful as 

 insecticides ; the fresh leaves also purify the air of unsalubrious 



