Eucalyptus.] 
LI. MYRTACEiE. 
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flat-topped. Fruit more or less urceolate, i to fin. long, usually contracted above 
the capsule and often expanded at the orifice, the rim narrow, the capsule sunk. 
Seeds large, ovate, more or less bordered by a wing, usually narrow. — DC. Prod, 
iii. 220; F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 46; Metrosideros gummifcra, Soland. in Gsertn. 
Fruct. i. 170 t. B4 f. 1. 
Hab.: From border of N.S.W. to Cape York. 
The figure usually quoted of E. corymbosa, Cav. Ic. 4 t. 340, is a very indifferent one, and 
looks much more like E. paniculate. — Benth. 
Gum will quickly cure ringworm. — Macartney. 
Foliage contains little oil ; ljoz. obtained from 561b. of dried leaves. — J. F. Bailey. 
This tree yields a tan-resin gam in large quantities, exuding at times in a bright-red fluid of 
the consistence of treacle; it often becomes imprisoned between the layers of wood, where it gets 
hard and may be broken out in quantity. It varies from being soluble in water to complete 
insolubility in water and alcohol.— Lauterer. 
Wood of a red colour, containing cavities full of gum ; a very durable wood if used whole, as 
for stumps, posts or piles. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 199. 
56. E. terminalis (flowers terminal), F. r. M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. 89 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 257 ; “ Narm-boon-bong,” Cloncurry, Palmer : “ Kulcha,” 
Gilbert River, Palmer: “ Gaja,” Palmer River, Both. A tree, very closely allied 
to E. corymbosa and might be termed its inland representative ; it is often 
scarcely to be distinguished from it in the dried specimens. It is, however, of a 
paler or more glaucous colour, the leaves usually narrower with less conspicuous 
veins, the operculum very obtuse, hemispherical and not showing the junction 
Avith the calyx-tube till just as it is detached. The fruit is somewhat larger and 
less urceolate, that is contracted at the orifice without so distinct a neck, the size 
varies from 7 lines to lin. long. Seeds with prominent wing. 
Jlab.: An inland tropical tree. 
Manna is procured from the leaves and small branches by being gathered and laid on pieces of 
bark, when the particles of sugar or gum fall off or are scraped off with mussel-shells into a 
“ kooliman,” or the leaves when covered with the white exudation are pounded together with a 
stone and roasted in the ashes. Sometimes the sugary particles are gathered as they fall from the 
trees. After the rainy season this food is said to be abundant. — Palmer. 
Wood red ; subject to large gum-veins. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. I Foods No. 199a. 
57. E. dichromophloia (two-coloured bark), F. r. M. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
iii. 89 ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 257. A moderate-sized or large tree, the bark 
smooth, ash-grey, at length separating from the inner reddish bark. Leaves 
long-lanceolate, narrow, thick, with numerous very fine close parallel nerves, the 
intramarginal one scarcely distant from the edge. Umbels several-flowered, 
forming loose, terminal, corymbose panicles ; young buds obovoid, with a very 
short obtuse operculum ; perfect flowers unknown. Anthers of E. corymbosa. 
Fruit urceolate-globose, with a contracted neck, smooth, attaining sometimes ^in. 
diameter, but mostly much smaller, the rim thin, the capsule sunk. Perfect 
seeds broadly winged on one side. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 
It appears to differ but slightly from E. terminalis in the size and shape of the fruit, and 
perhaps in the bark. — Bcntli. l.c. 
Fruit considerably smaller than in E. corymbosa, about the size of E. tracliyphloia . — 
F. v. M. l.c. 
58. E. trachyphloia (rough-barked), F. v. M. in Journ. [Ann. Soc. iii. 90, 
and Fragm. xi. 4B ; Benth. FI. Austr. iii. 221 ; F. r. M. Eucalypt. Dec. 5. White 
Bloodwood. “Gou-unya,” Nanango, Shirley. A tree of moderate size, with a 
persistent spongy-fibrous bark, foliage dense. Leaves elongate-lanceolate, often 
falcate, 4 to 6in. long, with numerous fine parallel almost transverse veins, the 
intramarginal one close or very near the edge. Oil-dots copious, sometimes much 
concealed. Umbels in terminal panicles containing from 4 to 8 small pedicellate 
