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Yields the best honey (Forester Marriott). A good honey-plant, nice and 
clear, of good flavour, but rather thin (Forester Rotton). One of the best 
Eucalypts for honey (Forester Smith). Blooms triennially if the season be normal 
(Forester Marriott). The best honey-plant in this district; it yields 50 per cent, 
more honey than any other tree (Forester Harris). I do not think that these trees 
are of any great value as honey-plants (Insp. Forester Manton). A favourite with 
bees (Forester Brown). Best for honey in the fall of the year (Forester Crowley). 
Fruit. —In Eucalyptus the fruit is of considerable importance for purposes 
of diagnosis. Ini?, hemiphloia the fruit varies considerably in size; but it is always 
subcylindrical, smooth, and never has the valves exserted. 
Bark. —This species obtains its name from its bark, although this is a 
character that can only be employed with caution. This trunk is more or less 
covered with a matted, sub-fibrous bark that is generally known as “ box ” bark. 
The branches are smooth, with a little ribbony bark at the junction of the fibrous 
and smooth portion. 
Timber. —Its characteristics are its toughness, hardness, cross-grained, non- 
fissile character, and its great strength. It is a pale hardwood, of a very pale brown. 
It is used for the naves of wheels and heavy framing, and for the cogs of wheels, 
large screws, mauls, handles, shafts, poles of drays, &c., which require a tough wood 
for their manufacture. In Victoria it is in high repute for railway sleepers, and in 
that State and our own for piles, girders, &c. It can be recommended with confi¬ 
dence to railway-carriage builders and others who require a strong durable timber 
for framing, &c. While usually sound in the coast districts, in the interior a great 
drawback to this tree is its tendency to become hollow at a comparatively early age. 
It is certainly a valuable timber, one of the best of our hardwoods. It forms an 
excellent fuel. 
Exudations. —The kino of this species is of a specially interesting character. 
It is of a reddish-brown colour, which breaks down to a fine powder. It forms a 
turbid solution in water, and hence belongs to my Turbid group of kinos. This 
turbidity of kinos is owing to more than one substance, and a new crystallised 
organic body, Eudesmin, is chiefly responsible for the turbidity of this particular 
kino. It is a very interesting substance ; but a technical description of it would be 
out of place here, and I therefore refer my readers to a paper* by Mr. H. G. Smith 
and myself. Later on Mr. Smith made the very interesting discovery of a second 
substance causing turbidity in thisf (and other) kinos. It is a colourless, transparent 
substance, to which the name Aromadendrin has been given, and my readers are 
referred to the original paper for a full account of it. 
• “A Contribution to the Chemistry of Australian Myrtaceous Kinos.” Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S. IT., 1895, pp. 30-40. 
f Op cit., 1896, pp. 135-143. “On Aromadendrin or Aromadcndric Acid from the Turbid Group of Eucalyptus Kinos.” 
