EUCALYPTUS EESINIFEEA. 



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Smith, in White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, 231 (1790) ; in Transactions of the Linnean Society of 

 London iii. 284 (1797); Exotic Botany, t. 84 (1805); Andrews, Botanist's Eepository vi. t. 400; Hayne, 

 Arznei-Gewachse x. t. 5 (with exclusion of the fruit) ; T. Nees von Esenbeck, Sammlung officineUer Pflanzen, 

 Supplement-Heffce, t. 11 ; Kippist, in P. M. fragmenta phytographiae Australiee ii. 172 ; Bentham, flora 

 Australiensis iii. 245. 



Finally tall ; branchlets angular ; leaves scattered, elongate- or narrow-lanceolar, somewhat 

 or but slightly curved, paler and opaque beneath; the lateral veins quite numerous, subtle and 

 almost transversely spreading, the two longitudinal veins only very slightly removed from the 

 edge ; pellucid oil-dots more or less obliterated ; umbels axillary, on a compressed stalk, bearing 

 usually 6-11 or sometimes 3-5 flowers ; tube of the calyx almost semiovate, merging gradually 

 into a stalHet of lesser or occasionally equal or even greater length ; lid conical, usually twice or 

 thrice as long as the tube and upwards either gradually or more or less suddenly attenuated ; 

 stamens all fertile, inflexed while in bud ; anthers oblong- or wedgeshaped-oval, with a broad 

 connective and longitudinal slits ; stigma not broader than the summit of the elongated style ; 

 fruit bellshaped-semiovate or verging towards an hemispheric form, 3- or oftener 4— 5-celled, not 

 or rarely angular ; rim raised, almost annular ; valves conspicuously protruding, deltoid-semi- 

 lanceolar ; placental column at least twice as long as broad ; seeds without any expanding 

 membrane, the fertile much broader than the sterile seeds and very angular. 



In K' ew South Wales and Queensland, but not extending far into the inland districts, traced 

 northward hitherto to the vicinity of Eockingham-Bay (Dallachy) and the Daintree-Eiver (Fitzalan) . 

 The precise southern limits as yet unknown. 



A moderate-siz ed or lofty tree. Bark rough, persistent on the stem, in a greater or lesser 

 degree deciduous on the branches, by which characteristic this species is with ease habitually 

 distinguished from E. saligna, the latter belonging to the Leiophloiae in the cortical system, while 

 E. resinifera belongs to the Hemiphloise. It bears the colonial name of Eed or Forest-Mahogany, 

 which appellations are very inaptly given, inasmuch as the wood bears no real similarity to that of 

 the true West Indian Mahogany ; according to the Eevd. Dr. Woolls the tree passes under several 

 other popular and confusing designations, which very properly might be consigned to oblivion. 

 Should it be deemed desirable to construct a new vernacular name, that of the New South Wales 

 Kino-Eucalypt might be found the most appropriate, as it was this species, which brought the 

 Australian Kino first into medical notice. Indeed Dr. White already during the earliest phase of 

 the Botany-Bay-settlement used it against diarrhoea with excellent results, and recorded simul- 

 taneously, that the Kino of this tree dissolves completely in spirits of wine, but only one-sisth 

 part of it in water. Hot water, according to Hayne, dissolves rather more than half, and alcohol 

 rather more than two-thirds, ether about one-twentieth. Incisions into the bark expedite and 

 increase the flow of the Kino-sap. 



E. resinifera presents considerable variations of form, which is not surprising, when we 

 consider, through what a wide extent of geographic latitude this species ranges. Thus in the wet 

 and hot regions of Eockingham-Bay the leaves assume a broad almost oval form of nearly equal 

 color on both sides and of thicker consistence, while" the lid of the calyx becomes suddenly 

 contracted from a semiglobular base ; this variety was described as E. spectabilis (F. M., fragm. 

 V. 45) ; another variety with more elongated leaves, partially paniculated flowers and larger fruits 

 was rendered known as E. pellitaT (F. M^Tfagm. iv. 159 ; Benth. fl. Austr. iii. 246) ; but 

 augmented material, since accumulated, has proved also this as a tropical luxuriant form referable 



