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Eucalyptus melanophloia, F. v. Mueller. 



One of the Iron-Bark Trees of New South Wales and Queens- 

 land. A middle-sized tree with a deeply furrowed bark and 

 mealy white foliage. The timber is strong and durable, and 

 used for telegraph poles and railway sleepers ; it is, however, 

 very apt to split, unless well seasoned, when exposed to the sun. 



Eucalyptus melliodora, A. Cunningham. 



The Yellow Box Tree of Victoria and, some parts of New South 

 Wales ; of a spreading habit of growth, attaining a height 

 of about 120 feet with a comparatively stout stem. The 

 wood is strong and durable, resembling that of E. rostrata in 

 texture, but is of a paler colour and not quite so durable. It is 

 esteemed for wheelwrights' and other artizans' work, and sup- 

 plies excellent fuel ; the young trees are used for telegraph 

 poles. 



Eucalyptus microcorys, F. v. Mueller. 



One of the Stringy Bark Trees of New South Wales and 

 Queensland. The wood is hard and durable, also underground ; 

 used for wheelwrights' work, railway sleepers, the young 

 trees for telegraph poles ; the foliage is very rich in volatile 

 oil. Altogether a gigantic species. 



Eucalyptus microtheca, F. v. Mueller. 



Widely dispersed over the most arid extra-tropical, as well as 

 tropical, inland regions of Australia. One of the best trees for 

 desert tracts j in favourable places 150 feet high. Wood 

 brown, sonietimes very dark, hard, heavy, and elastic ; prettily 

 marked J thus used for cabinet-work, but more particularly for 

 piles, bridges, and railway sleepers (Rev. Dr. Woolls). 



Eucalyptus obliqua, L'Heritier.* 



The ordinary Stringy Bark Tree of Tasmania, generally desig- 

 nated Messmate Tree in Victoria, attaining a height of 300 feet, 

 with a stem more than 10 feet in diameter, growing mostly 

 in mountainous country, attaining gigantic dimensions. The 

 most extensively distributed and most gregarious of all 

 Eucalypts, from Spencer's Gulf to the southern parts of 

 New South Wales, and in several varieties designated by 

 splitters and other wood-workers by difEerent names ; most 

 extensively used for cheap fencing rails, palings, shingles, and 

 any other rough wood-work not to be sunk undei'ground nor 

 requiring great strength or elasticity. The bulk of wood 



