EUCALYPTUS TREES. 35 



markable for its dark green shady foliage. It delights 

 on river banks. Stems attain a length of eighty feet 

 without a branch, and a diameter of eight feet. The 

 timber usually sound to the centre, adapted for water 

 work, wagons, knees of boats, etc. Posts of it very 

 lasting, as no decay was observed in fourteen years. 



Eucalyptus beachypoda (Turczaninow). — Wide- 

 ly dispersed over the most arid extra-tropical as well 

 as tropical inland regions of Australia. One of the 

 best trees for desert tracts ; in favorable places one 

 hundred and fifty feet high. Wood brown, some- 

 times very dark, hard, heavy, and elastic, prettily 

 marked ; thus used for cabinet work, but more particu- 

 larly for piles, bridges, and railway -sleepers. (Kev. 

 Dr. WooUs.) 



Eucalyptus calophylla (Ik Brown). — South- 

 west Australia. More umbrageous than most Eu- 

 calypts, and of comparatively rapid growth. The 

 wood is free of resin when grown on alluvial land- 

 but not so when produced on stony ranges. It is pre- 

 ferred to that of E. marginata and E. cornuta for 

 rafters, spokes, and fence-rails ; it is strong and light 

 but not long lasting underground. The bark is valua- 

 ble for tanning, as an admixture to Acacia bark. 



Eucalyptus cornuta ( Labillardiere). — South- 

 west Australia. A large tree, of rapid growth, pre- 

 ferring a somewhat humid soil. The wood is used for 

 various artisans' work, and there preferred for the 

 strongest shafts and frames of carts, and other work 

 requiring hardness, toughness, and elasticity. 



Eucalyptus crebra (F. v. Mueller).' — The narrow- 

 leaved iron-bark tree of New South Wales and Queens. 

 land. Wood reddish, hard, heavy, elastic, and dura- 



