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Flowers. —Few together in short loose sessile terminal racemes, the males and females usually 
separate branches, but sometimes the one or two pair female and the upper two or three 
pair males : the pedicels opposite, j or | inch long, solitary in the axils of very small bracts. 
Calyx. —Deeply divided into five lanceolate lobes, varying to four only in the males, or rarely to 
G inches in the females, 2 to 2 J lines long. 
Petals. —Oblong or lanceolate, nearly twice as long. 
Disc.- —In both sexes, with a thick irregularly-lobed undulate margin. 
Stamens. —Numerous, the filaments very shortly united in a conical or oblong column or 
receptacle. 
Styles. —Divided almost to the base into two branches. 
Capsule. —Hard, globular, | to \ inch in diameter, somewhat tridymous, with a furrow bordered 
by two narrow ridges on the back of each coccus. (B.F1., vi, 148.) 
In the “ Catalogue of the . . . Products of New South Wales,” intended . 
for the London Exhibition of 1862, and shown in Sydney, October, 1^61, we have 
at p. 57, No. xc, 11— 
Balogjiia lucida, var. Australiana, F. Mueller. Brushes on the Clarence, abundant. A tree of 
general occurrence, and occasionally of considerable size. Timber not used. 
I cannot find any description of this so-called variety, and probably it was 
dropped. 
This tree, in Norfolk Island, is remarkably infested with the Mistletoe 
(Viscum articulatum, Burm.). Not only is the parasite very abundant, but the 
Brush Bloodwood is almost the only tree attacked. 
Botanical Name. — Baloghia, in honour of Joseph Balog, author of a work 
on Transylvanian Plants, published at Leyden in 1779; lucida, Latin, “bright or 
shining,” in allusion to the foliage. 
Vernacular Name. —It is commonly called Brush Bloodwood or (less 
correctly) Scrub Bloodwood. It grows in brushes, and is distinguished by the 
adjective from the common Bloodwood (Eucalyptus conjmbosa). The late Sir 
"William Macarthur, in his catalogue of southern (N.S.W.) timbers, called it 
“ Roger Gough,” but I know nothing of the individual thus commemorated. 
Aboriginal Names. —Sir William Macarthur gave “ Nulliera” as the name 
given by the Illawarra blacks, and Mr. Charles Moore “Nun Naia” by those of 
the Clarence Itiver. “ Doorasran ” is another name attributed to the natives of 
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northern New South Wales. 
Synonym.— Codiceum lucidum, Muell., Arg. in 1)C. l^rod., xv, ii, 1116. 
In old writings concerning Norfolk Island it is often called Croton sanguisjlua 
(allusion to the blood-red sap, of course), but I cannot trace the name otherwise. 
