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photograph. Tumours like these often contain a watery liquid, and Capt. J. Lort 

 Stokes, R.K, " Discoveries in Australia, 1837-43," vol. ii, 132, calls the tree " White 

 Gum " or " Wando " (native name), and says " Found on stiff clay lands, sometimes 

 tapped for water contained in the hollow trunk." 



The native name is now usually spelt " Wandoo," and is very often applied 

 to the tree and its timber. 



Mueller speaks of it attaining a height of 120 feet in rich and deep soil, and on 

 another occasion says, " the stem is known to have occasionally attained a diameter 

 of 17 feet," 



The timber is a Jarrah substitute. Enthusiastic people pronounce it to be more 

 durable and even better than Jarrah, when used for posts, &c. It is a pale (drying 

 dark brown), hard, particularly tough, interlocked, heavy and durable timber, prized 

 for building purposes, various implements, and especially for wheelwrights' work, 

 supplying the best shafts, cogs, naves, spokes, and felloes. The seasoned wood weighs 

 about 70 lb. per cubic foot, Mr. Allen Ransome examined a sample of this timber 

 sent to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. He reports : " It is very similar to 

 Tuart (E. gompJiocepkala). Felloes were shaped, and spokes were turned from it, 

 the finish being, if anything, superior to that of Tuart." Splits radially in drying. 



It is the commonest tree about Broome Hill, where it attains a good size. The 

 local people speak of it as the most valuable timber in Western Australia. It splits 

 radially in drying. 



Its bark is smooth and white, with grey patches, and it is used as a Mallet 

 adulterant. 



Mr. H. Gr. Smith has a note on the tanning value of the bark of this species, 

 which he calls " White Gum," in the Journal of Agriculture, W.A., April, 1905, p. 219. 

 He speaks of it as a somewhat thick bark, grey to brown externally, and with a fracture 

 of a yellowish colour. He gave the tannin value as 12-80 per cent. 



RANGE (of var. data), 



Mueller {Eucalyptographia) extends the range " fully to the Murchison River, 

 the prevailing tree on the eastern tiers of the ranges and on the adjoining flats . . . 

 estimated by the Lands Department to occupy naturally about 10,000 scmare miles 

 . . . is for its growth content with cold flats of comparatively poor soil, even 

 where humidity stagnates in the wet season." 



Kalgan River, W.A. (Augustus Oldfield, No. 331). "White Gum," Kalgan, 

 W.A. (Oldfield, No. 342). These specimens are co-types of the variety. It is common 

 about the Kalgan River, where I collected it. This locality is about 35 miles north- 

 east of Albany. 



