CHAPTEE VIII 
AUSTRALIAN TIMBERS 
The Eucalyptus— Area of Forests — Peculiarities of Trees. 
Western Australia : Jarrah— Karri — Tuart— Wandoo— Yate— Eed 
Gum — Sandalwood — Blackbutt. 
New South Wales : Ironbark — Narrow and Broad Leaved Bark 
— Eed Ironbark— Tallow Wood — White and Eed Mahogany — 
Blackbutt— Spotted Gum — Grey Box — Brush Box— Eed Box- 
Grey Gum— Murray Eed Gum— Forest Eed Gum— Sydney Blue 
Gum— White Stringy Bark— Woollybutt— Turpentine— Cedar — 
Eosewood— Eed Bean — Onion Wood — White Beech — Moreton Bay 
Pine — Brown Pine — Cypress Pine — Black Bean— Tulipwood — 
Muskwood — Native Teak— Blueberry Ash — Eed Ash — Coachwood 
— Miall, Brigalow, etc. 
Timbers of Victoria : Gums and Ironbarks— Bairnsdale Grey Box 
— Yellow Box — Blackbutt — Silver-top Ironbark — Cypress Pine — 
Blackwood — Evergreen Beech. 
Timbers of Queensland : Timbers of South Australia. 
Australian Timbers. 
The Eucalyptus, .a genus of Myrfcaceae, which includes 
about 150 species, forms the characteristic vegetation of the 
Australian and Tasmanian forests. 
These trees frequently reach the enormous heights of 
300 ft. and over, rivalling, or even exceeding, the giant 
Sequoia senqjervirens of California. Their leathery glaucous 
leaves, which turn vertically with their edges to the sun 
and thus cast little or no shadow, and their frequently 
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