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Later on he reported :— 
The timber known as Brown Gum is a useful hardwood, but it is decidedly inferior to “Sydney 
Blue Gum ” ( Eucalyptus saligna). 
It is used for building purposes, but not for sucli as flooring or weather-boarding, on account of its 
shrinking and warping propensites. It is best suited to such sizes as 9 x 4, 6 x 3, and 4x2. 
It is accepted by the Railway Commissioners for railway sleepers, and is an excellent hardwood to 
stand in the ground. Brown Gum has been known to have been in the ground for twenty years, and at 
the end of that time it has been in a good state of preservation. 
As a rule, Brown Gum grows exceedingly straight, and is free from bumps and knocks, which is 
very much in its favour. 
There appears to be a difference of opinion amongst builders as to the qualities of this timber, some 
readily accepting it, whilst others do not seem to care for it. This, in my opinion, is accounted for to a 
great extent by the fact of there being an absence of a proper system of seasoning timber before being 
used in buildings ; but this, I think, will be rectified before long by the public refusing to accept timber 
unless properly seasoned. 
The above notes, of course, extend its northern range very considerably. 
Last year I received it from Woy Woy, near Gosford, from Mr. A. Murphy, 
witli the following note :— 
This timber grows near Ourimbah, and it is called by the timber-getters “ Round-leaved Blue 
Gum.” The tree is very similar to E. saligna, only of much larger growth. Plenty of these trees reach 
10 to 12 feet in diameter. The timber is good. 
Mr. J. L. Boorman also collected it at Jilliby Jilliby, in the same district. 
The same tree occurs in the Blue Mountains ( e.g ., the Valley, Springwood), 
and also Jamieson Valley, Wentworth Balls (found in the latter place by Mr. W. 
Borsyth); Mr. Jesse Gregson has sent it from Mount Wilson. 
Mr. B. H. Cambage has sent it from several southern localities with the 
following note :— 
It is a round-leaved Gum. There is a fine large tree at Burragorang, where it is known as Flooded 
Gum. It is the Blue Gum of Blue Gum Creek, Picton Lakes. It has thin-leaved broad suckers, green 
above, pale underneath. 
This paleness of the under-leaf is often seen in young leaves of normal 
saligna. Mr. Cambage’s and the Jillihy Jilliby specimens have fruits rather more 
urceolatc than those originally figured in 1899. 
It would appear that this variety of E. saligna, variously known as “ Silky 
Gum,” “Bound-leaved Blue Gum,” “Blue Gum,” “Blooded Gum,” “ Brown 
Gum,” &c., is not very well known, at all events, nothing like so well known as 
normal Blue or Blooded Gum. It is a valuable timber, though apparently some¬ 
what inferior to normal Blue Gum, and I draw attention to it, for it appears to me 
to be well worthy of more extended use. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
a. Twig of young foliage. 
b. Twig in flower. 
c. Front and back view of anthers. 
D. Twig bearing fruits. 
