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timber. The vernacular names in use for most of the Eucalypts- 
are, as a rule, ill chosen. 'Hie term Gum-tree is particularly 
objectionable, as they yield kino and not gum. 
88. Eucalyptus incrassata, Labillardiere. 
(Sect. L el ophlol ce . ) 
One of the Maliee shrubs. A shrub or small tree, with a 
smooth bark, persistent, or shedding in large patches. 
89 . Eucalyptus largiflorens, F. v. Mueller. 
(JJJ. bicolor , A. Gunn.) 
One of the BOX-TREES, also known as BASTARD- 
BOX. (Sect. Iiemipliloice.) 
^ In the Maliee scrub, and generally in the N.W. portion of 
Victoria. A large shrub, or sometimes a tree of 30 to 40 feet, 
with a persistent ash-grey or blackish bark. Wood very hard, 
and good for shafts, poles, cogs ; it is exceedingly durable. 
(Woolls.) Timber redder, closer, softer, and more easily worked 
than the generality of Ironharks ; highly valued. (Moore.) 
90 . Eucalyptus leucoxylon, F. v. Mueller. 
THE IRONBAEK-TREE, sometimes RED FLOW- 
ERING or BLACK IRONBAEK-TEEE. (E. 
sideroxylon , A. Gunn . — Sect. Schizophloice.) 
On many of our less fertile ridges, usually indicating an auri- 
ferous country ; gregarious. This is considered the strongest 
wood in our colony. It is much recommended for railway 
sleepers, and extensively used for underground mining work. It 
is very extensively employed for the handles of axes and other 
implements by Victorian manufacturers. A middle or large-sized 
tree, with a persistent, rough, iron-grey bark, but occurring with 
smooth whitish bark, after the shedding of the outer layers. One 
of the hardest and heaviest of our native woods, and has a pecu- 
liarly thick and rugged bark, with deep longitudinal fissures, 
which is strikingly characteristic. It possesses great strength and 
tenacity, and has a close and straight grain, on which account it 
is highly useful to I he coachmaker and wheelwright for the poles 
and shafts of carriages and the spokes of wheels. Its greasy 
nature also renders this wood very serviceable to the millwright 
