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of one of these trees is quite startling. It is one of the few Eucalypts that enjoys but 

 one vernacular name. At the same time, the name Bloodwoocl (sometimes with a 

 prefix) is given to most members of the Corymbosa}. 



Aboriginal Names. — " Mannen " was the aboriginal name of the tribes in the 

 counties of Cumberland and Camden, according to the late Sir William Macarthur. 

 Mr. Forester G. R. Brown states that its name amongst the blacks of the Port 

 Macquarie district is " Bookeybarng," the word " barng " signifying "tree." In a 

 catalogue of timbers, published many years ago, Mr. Charles Moore stated it to be the 

 ' Weni Aabie " of the aborigines of the Clarence and Richmond. By those of southern 

 Queensland it used to be called " Boona. " It was known as " Gooden " by the 

 Koolaburra tribe between Tarromeo and Nanaugo, South Queensland, according to 

 Dr. J. Shirley in Proc. Roy. Soc. Q., xii, 7. 



SYNONYMS. 



1. Metrosideros gummifera Gaertner. 



2. E. oppositifolia Desf. 



3. E. purpurascens Link. 



4. E. longifolia Link, not Link and Otto. 

 What is E. corymbosa Hoffmg. ? 



1. Metrosideros gummifera Gaertner, in De Fructibus, vol. i, p. 17, and tab. 



xxxiv (1788). Unmistakeable drawings of the fruit. This was afterwards 

 attributed to E. resinifera (see Part XXX, p. 208, of the present work). 

 E. corymbosa is a notorious yielder of kino, and Gaertner's name would have 

 been a useful one, while in translating it to E. resinifera, subsequent botanists 

 thought they were following up the same idea. It so happens, however, that 

 the tree now accepted as E. resinifera Sm. is remarkably free from kino. 



2. E. oppositifolia Desf. 



'Eucalyptus oppositifolia a feuilles opposees. New Holland, Or., (Desf. 

 Tabl. Ecol. Bot. Ed. i, 1804, p. 222), is a synonym of E. purpurascens Link, var. 

 pctiolaris A. DC. according to DC. Prod, iii, 221. Var. petiolaris has been shown to 

 be a synonym of E. corymbosa Sm. - 



This is confirmed by a large specimen in the opposite leaved stage in Herb. Mus. 

 Paris, from the Jardin Noisette, 1812, presented by M. Bonpland in 1833. A second 

 specimen in the same herbarium, presented by M. Bonpland in 1833, and labelled in 

 very old handwriting " oppositifolius " [sic] is indeterminable. It is not E. corymbosa. 



