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in use thirty-two years, that were quite sound, and equally as good as Red Gum posts 

 in other parts of the same fence. It is next to Red Gum in my opinion, and I am sorry 

 it is so scarce and so rapidly being destroyed — scarcely any of this species is being 

 renewed. In the higher and poorer country along the Tambo Valley and in East 

 Gippsland, the timber of E. polyanthemos is not quite so good, the trees do not grow 

 so straight or to a large size, and there is much heart decay, even the saplings of less 

 than a foot being usually hollow. On the richer lowlands the timber is usually very 

 sound." (Harry Hopkins, Bairnsdale, Victoria.) 



244. E. ptychocarpa F.v.M. "Red and porous." (W. V. Fitzgerald, Kimberleys.) 

 "Pink, fairly soft." (C. A. Gardner, Kimberleys.) Evidently it is inferior to most 

 of the Corymbosse. 



132. E. quadrangulata Deane and Maiden. " Much esteemed by sawmillers, and 

 reminds one of those of E. goniocalyx (Mountain Gum), E. microcorys (Tallow Wood), 

 and E maculata (Spotted Gum)." (Forest Overseer Matterson, speaking of Nundle, 

 N.S.W., trees.) 



50. E. Raveretiana F.v.M. " It goes by the local names of Grey Gum, Iron Gum, 

 and Woollybutt, and is highly esteemed as a timber tree. It was much valued for 

 sleepers on the Central Railway, Queensland, but the plate-layers told me it was so 

 hard that it destroyed their tools. The wood is dark brown and takes a beautiful polish, 

 besides being close-grained without any interstices filled with gum." (J. E. Tenison- 

 Woods in Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., vii, 335.) 



196. E. setosa. " Light-coloured sap-wood, dark red heart-wood." (C. E. F. 

 Allen, No. 676, north of Alice Springs.) 



179. E. spathulata Hook. f. Light-brown, hard and dense. Dumbleyung 

 (C. A. Gardner). 



216. E. terminalis F.v.M. "Dense, of a deep red colour, but fairly soft, with 

 resin ducts. The tree exudes small quantities of a deep red kino, which is very 

 astringent." (C. A. Gardner, Kimberleys.) 



254. E. tetrodonta F.v.M. " Pale red, moderately hard, with a yellow sapwood." 

 (The same.) 



230. E. Watsoniana F.v.M. Pale-brown, coarse-grained, somewhat fissile, 

 liable to gum-veins. 



176. E. Websterim a Maiden. " Very hard, deep brown with white towards the 

 the bark. Some specimers seen by me are all more or less hollow, evidently eaten by 

 termites. The wood is gccd firewood; but not of much quality." (R. J. Larsen, 

 Lake Lefroy.) 



