32 The Queensland Naturalist. April, 1934. 
Distribution. — Eastern Australia from the north- 
eastern corner of Victoria to the Atherton Tableland, 
North Queensland. 
Common Name. — Mostly simply called Bloodwood or 
Common Bloodwood, sometimes Red Bloodwood to dis- 
tinguish it from E . track yphloia, but though the timber is 
usually deep red especially in the larger and older trees, 
it varies to pink and almost white. 
Botanical Name — Eucalyptus (see under No. 1), cory- 
mb osa Latin referring to the corymbose arrangement of 
the flowers (from Latin eorvmbus — Gr. korvmbos — a 
cluster of fruit or flowers). 
Timber . — A very durable hardwood, not sawn on ac- 
count of its numerous gum veins, but extensively employed 
for fencing, house blocks, sleepers, etc. For the last pur- 
pose its life is considerably lessened by its tendency to 
scale off along the “gum veins’ ’ or cracks filled with a 
dark red kino or “gum.” 
Botanical References — Eucalyptus corymb osa J. E. 
Smith in “A Specimen of the Botanv of New Holland,” 
p. 43, 1793. 
