EUCALYPTUS COKYMBOSA. 



Smith, a specimen of the Botany of New Holland 43 (1793) ; Transactions of the Linnean Society iii. 287 ; Cavanilles, 

 icones et descriptiones plautarum t. 340 ; De Candolle, prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis iii. 

 220 ; F. v. M., fragmenta phytographise Australia ii. 46 ; Bentham, flora Australiensis iii. 256 ; Metrosideros 

 gummifera, Solander, in Gscrtner de fructibus et seminibus i. 170, tab. 34, fig. 1. 



The ordinary Bloodwood-tree. 



Finally tall ; leaves scattered, of firm consistence, ovate- or elongate-lanceolar, slightly curved 

 or somewhat sickleshaped, paler beneath, the lateral veins very numerous, subtle, almost transversely 

 spreading, the circumferential vein nearly contiguous to the edge ; the oil-dots generally concealed 

 or obliterated ; umbels paniculated, mostly terminal, rarely solitary and axillary, on slender 

 slightly compressed or angular stalks, bearing from 3 to 9 rather large flowers ; stalklets from 

 somewhat shorter to considerably longer than the calyx', angular, rather slender ; lid depressed- 

 hemispherical, short-pointed, tearing off along a rather irregular transverse line, exceeded in width 

 and much in length by the obconic-bellshaped tube of the calyx ; stamens all fertile, iuflexed 

 before expansion ; filaments yellowish-white ; anthers oblong-oval, blunt, opening by longitudinal 

 parallel slits ; ovary flat-topped ; stigma hardly broader than the summit of the style ; fruit 

 large, ocal-urnshaped, not angular, 3- or ofteuer 4-celled ; rim narrow ; calces deeply enclosed, 

 deltoid ; fertile seeds large, prodded with a narrow or short appcndicular membrane, sterile seeds 

 much smaller. 



From the vicinity of the Genoa-River to near Rockingham-Bay on dry ridges and hills or in 

 open forest-ground, ascending to considerable mountain-elevations in New England. 



A tree, attaining a maximum-height of 150 feet, but often of much lower and sometimes 

 stunted growth, fruiting already when hardly advanced beyond its early shrubby state. Bark 

 persistent, outside rough, wrinkled, grey and turning somewhat black, inside yellowish- or reddish- 

 brown ; that of the upper branches smooth and often reddish : but in New England it seems to be 

 noticed, that the bark also becomes smooth and whitish from shelving off in flakes. Branchlets 

 not very angular. Panicles more or less ample, of pleasant scent. Calyces generally dark- 

 colored ; the rim of their tube soon after flowering somewhat rcvolute. Lid not dehiscent along 

 a sharply defined suture, often continuing to adhere to the rim unilaterally for some time. 

 Filaments not so fine-capillary as in many other species. Anthers dorsifixed. Fruits not gene- 

 rally polished-smooth, but of a dull color outside ; the valves sometimes remaining coherent and 

 then seceding as a circular disk. Seeds rather few in each cell. 



The wood is easily enough worked when fresh, but becomes very hard when dry ; it is long- 

 lasting underground and according to Mr. S. Johnson it is as resistent to the Termites as the 

 wood of several Ironbark-trees, but it is intersected by concentric fissures, filled with fluid or 

 indurated Kino-secretions, whence the popular name of this tree is derived ; but for the same 

 reason the timber is not available for sawing purposes, and it does not turn out a good fuel, as it 

 is difficult to burn. The Kino-sap indurates soon on its own accord, as in all congeners, and is 

 gathered for therapeutic or industrial purposes as exuded spontaneously from the stem and bark, 

 in its dry state without any preparation, liquid Kino becoming merely exceptionally mercantile 

 and then also only as a crude product. This seems not generally known abroad, nor the fact, that 

 the mere general name " Gum-tree " for Eucalypts does not indicate even the least supply of Kino 

 for commercial purposes. (See Wiesner, die Rohstoffe des Fflanzenreiches p. 188.) 



The species, as far as here noticed, is restricted to the ordinary state, in which it appears 

 through the more litoral regions of New South Wales and Southern Queensland. But the greatest 



