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soaps, &c. This tree rapidly runs up with a tall pole-like 

 stern and smooth ashen bark, but, except in its native 

 climate of plentiful summer rains, the foliage soon becomes 

 thin and poor. The timber grown on the coast of northern 

 N.S. Wales and Queensland is a useful second class wood 

 strong and specially useful for bending, but of somewhat 

 doubtful durability. Sifted seed averages 8,484 to the 

 ounce. 



Eucalyptus coriacea. (E. pauciflora Mueller-) 

 CORIACEA GUM. 



This is reputed in the Free State to be the most frost- 

 resistant of all the Gums. Otherwise it has nothing to 

 recommend it. Easily recognised by the peculiar veins of 

 its thick leaves. These run more lengthwise than any 

 other Eucalypt except E. siellulaia and have the effect of 

 making the leaf look like a Wattle leaf. East Austra- 

 lian, it prefers summer and mixed rains. A small drooping 

 tree at Tokai. 



E. coriacea and its first cousin E. siellulata grow high up 

 on Mount Kosciousko. Maiden records the " Snow Gum," 

 a variety of E. coriacea, as growing at 6,000 feet on Mount 

 Kosciousko. It there marks the upper limit of tree vegeta- 

 tion, thus withstanding more frost and snow than any other 

 tree in Australia. 6,000 feet there would be equivalent to 

 8,000 or 10,000 feet in South Africa, or, in other words, 

 the Snow-gum variety of E. coriacea should grow up to the 

 top of the highest mountains in S. Africa. 



Unsifted seed averages 2,400 to the ounce. 



Eucalyptus cornuta. YATE GUM- 



A common bushy Gum in the Cape Peninsula, where it 

 is planted as a wind-screen. To form a tree the Lehmani 

 variety must be chosen and planted close, 3 ft. x 3 ft. If 

 this be done the poles and timber of the Yate are valuable 

 for their elasticity in cart- making, &c. The tree variety of 

 the Yate seems to like cold and damp. I have seen it 

 flourishing in damp cold glass-houses in England and for 

 some years out of doors near Torquay, in Devonshire. In 

 8. Africa drought and hot winds soon stunt the Yate, It is 



