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edge, sometimes easily seen under a lens, at other times 
indistinguishable from the thickened and slightly recurved 
leaf-margin. Flowers in umbels, the unbels in panicles, 
the panicles terminal and in the upper leaf axils. In- 
dividual umbels 3-7 flowered, peduncle angular. £ inch 
long, calyx tube broadly turbinate, somewhat shorter than 
the pedicel, pedicel and calyx tube together about £ inch 
or a little longer, operculum short, depressed-hemispheri- 
cal, stamens in several series, all fertile, longer filaments 2 
lines, anthers dehiscing by longitudinal parallel slits. Seed 
capsules urn shaped about £ inch in diameter, valves very 
deeply sunk. 
DISTRIBUTION: — New South Wales and Queens- 
land. The northernmost record is Stannary Hills, the 
westernmost, Chinchilla. 
COMMON NAME: — White Bloodwood and Yellow 
Bloodwood are common vernaculars. The Queensland 
Forest Service has adopted Brown Bloodwood as the 
trade name of the timber. 
BOTANICAL NAME : — Eucalyptus (see under No. 
1.) trachyphloia from the Greek trachys rough, and 
phloios bark. 
TIMBER: — The timber is used for house blocks and 
mining props and slabs. It is, much freer from gum-veins 
than its ally, the Red Bloodwood. arid on this account is 
more suitable as sawn timber. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCE : — Eucalyptus trachy- 
phloia, Ferd. von Mueller in Journal of Proceedings of the 
Linnean Society, III., 90, (1858). 
AN AUSTRALIAN PLANT IN THE BERMUDAS. 
So many of our weeds, such as Lantana, Star 
Burr, etc., have come from tropical America that it is 
interesting to learn from a paper, ‘ 4 Notes on the Flora 
of the Bermudas/’ by A. B. Rendle, in the Journal of 
Botany, for February. 1936, that the Australian Jasmi- 
nmn simplicif oliwm, introduced into the Bermudas about. 
1840, forms a dense jungle in the Bermuda forests, kill- 
ing out the undergrowth and throttling the trees, into 
which the long branches climb. It has converted in 
parts much of what remains of the original vegetation into 
an almost impenetrable jungle. This vine is common in 
parts of Queensland, but nowhere, so far as I know, can 
it be called a pest. — C. T. White. 
