78 J. H. MAIDEN. 



much larger and of a paler hue than that of E. tesselaris, and the 

 leaves from adventitious shoots are generally six to thirteen inches 

 long and three to four inches wide. The seedling plants are hispid, 

 with the leaves opposite, broadly ovate and shortly petiolate, but 

 not peltately attached; the seedlings of E. tesselaris are also hispid, 

 but the leaves are much smaller and nearly sessile." 1 



In the following passage E. tesselaris is the inferior 

 timber, while the durable timber refers to the so-called 

 variety Dallachiana. 



"Accounts of this timber are conflicting. The Rev. J. E. 

 Tenison-Woods states that about Moreton Bay, Gympie, etc., the 

 wood is not valued for any purpose whatever; about Rockhampton, 

 Mr. O'Shanesy says that the heart-wood is good enough but the 

 sap-wood soon decays ; about Townsville and Charters Towers the 

 wood is highly esteemed, and employed for all useful purposes. 

 Mr. Woods says the only way to account for these various state- 

 ments is by supposing the warmer climate is its proper habitat. 

 This is by no means the only Eucalyptus timber in regard to 

 which statements from different localities are conflicting." 2 



The late Dr. Joseph Bancroft, a keen observer of our 

 flora, wrote as follows, whether in print or in a letter to me, 

 I cannot at this moment say : — 



"The wood is heavy and not much used in Brisbane (Moreton 

 Bay Ash, E. tesselaris, J. H.M.) for economic purposes, but in the 

 northern part of the colony (the tree under discussion, J. H.M.) 

 it is found valuable, leading to the supposition of the northern 

 tree being of another species. It is very combustible, and dead 

 trees will burn away entirely, root and branch, often without 

 assistance." 



The same discordant remarks on the wood are seen in 

 the catalogue of the Queensland Forestry Museum, 1904, 

 under E. tesselaris, where we have 



1 O'Shanesy, Contrib. to Fl. Q'land, p. 40, 1880. 



8 Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., vn, 334, 1883, quoted in my " Useful Native 

 Plants of Australia." 



