August, 1926 
The Queensland Naturalist. 
95 
An^o])liorH Woodsiana. Oil Stradbroke Island and 
Moreton Island (Moreton Bay) the species often covers 
larp:e stretches of sandhills eonntryj where it is dwarfed 
to a shrub or small tree of 6 to 8 feet; in better situa- 
tions trees of the normal size occur. 
Common Names : About Brisbane it is simply 
referred I 0 as as “stringybark/' Maiden gives Bastard 
Tallow-U'ood’’ as a local name in common use in New 
South Wales. 
Botanical Name: Eucalyptus (see under No. 1), 
J^lanchoniana in honour of Mr. J. E. Planchon, one-time 
director of the Botanic Gardens at Montpelier, Southern 
rVance. 
Timber: Tlie timber lias the reputation of being hard 
and durable, but is not often cut due to the irregular 
nature of the trees, catu those forming a distinct trunk 
are often pipy. 
Botanical Reference: Eucalyptus Plauchoniana Ferd. 
von Mueller, Fragmenta PIiAdographiie Australite. VoL, 
XT., p. 4.1, 1878. 
10, Eucalyptus Baileyana (Bailey’s Stringybark.) 
Description: A large tree witli a thick furrowed 
fibrous (lark grey bark, often blackened by fire ,the bark 
fibres much interlaced; the inner bark with tlie interstices 
filled with hvittle, reddish, somcAvhat flaky material. 
Branches of copiiice shoots purplish, clothed with a rough 
. stellate pubescene. Goppiee (‘‘sucker’^) Ichats marked- 
ly different from the adult, green and glabrous or glab- 
lescent above, white and rough to the touch underneath, 
due to a dense clothing of stellate hairs, opposite to sub- 
0 ]>posite. variable in size, at first small (1 to 14 inches 
long and .t-inch ^vide) elliptic on short stalks of 1 to 3 
lines, later ovat(* w]} to 4^ inches long and 2 inches wide, 
on stalks about 4-inch; apex apiculale. Ordinary (sec- 
ondary or adult) leaves lanceolate, falcate or more I'arely 
straight or nearly so, tapering to a long acute apex f>ark 
green above: paler beneatli ; petiole half to three-ouart evs 
of an inch long, blade averaging about 44 inches long, 
from under half an inch to three-(juarters o-P a" ^ueh 
Avide, the lateral nerves not very prominent 
aboAT. more clearly visible beneath, where the veinlets 
are also Ausible, main lateral nerves about 4-'^’^*h a, part, 
but Avith a seondary nerve or nerves between ’^dra- 
marginal vein close to the margin, scarcely vi^ibl^ above, 
fairly distinct below. Flowers in simple 3 to 7 flowered 
