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The wood differs altogether from that of the Red Bloodwood. It is pale in colour, fine in fibre 
texture, very soft, easy to work, and as it is not ringy is capable of presenting a pleasing finish when 
carefully treated. The wood is almost absolutely free from rings and gum-vessels, a fact, I should say, 
that would leave little reason to believe that the bark is not very rich in tanning properties. The wood 
loses considerably more weight than the Red Bloodwood as it seasons. The tree occurs too rarely in my 
district to afford any illustration of its merits in general use. In small quantities it has been used in ship 
fittings at the yards of Mr. Dent, at Jervis Bay, owing to its durability, combined with lightness. My 
acting Forest Guard, Mr. T. C. Kennedy, informs me that about fifteen years ago he found a small grove 
of White Bloodwood growing in company with Blackbutt, Red Bloodwood, and Mahogany, on private 
property at a place called “Long Nose,” at Greenwell Point, in the Shoalhaven District. He was a con¬ 
tractor at the time, and squared two of the trees for the walls of a culvert. He assures me that the wood 
to-day shows barely a trace of decay, though it has been in use for fifteen years, and was subject to being 
wet and dry alternately ever since. 
Excellent specimens have also been received from District Eorester Hardiman, 
from the parish of Bohnock, county of Gloucester. 
In the Agricultural Gazette for September, 1895, p. 604, I wrote as 
follows :— 
One so-called White Bloodwood was pointed out to me on the banks of the Hastings. It had a 
paler-coloured bark than is usual with Eucalyptus corymbosa, and showed no external gum-stains. I was 
informed that the timber shows no gum-veins ; if so, the only important objection to Bloodwood is removed, 
I had no opportunity of seeing the timber, and this tree (3 or 4 feet in diameter), had its lowest branch 
at such a height from the ground that I was unable to make any botanical observations. 
Earlier I wrote :— 
Occasionally Bloodwood is found pretty free from concentric gum veins, or the veins are wide apart. 
When this is the case it is sometimes cut up for lining boards in country districts, and for this purpose it 
is much liked. 
Both these paragraphs refer to the timber now under review. 
In Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. xxv, 674 (1900), Mr. It. T. Baker described this 
Bloodwood under the name of Eucalyptus intermedia. Eor a number of years I 
looked upon this tree as E. terminalis, E.v.M., and hence took no steps to give it 
another name. 
The E. terminalis from the dry interior (Eremaean region) necessarily differs 
in appearance from the fresher green of the coast; it varies gradually as we proceed 
coastward. As we proceed north the fruits of Bloodwood get more habitually egg- 
shaped, i.e., less urceolate, and more or less mottled. Before me, as I write, are no 
less than fourteen specimens of such Bloodwoods, from the Macleay Biver up to 
Rockhampton in Queensland, all coastal and all labelled terminalis by Mueller. 
In Proc. Aust. Assoc. Adv. Science , 1898, p. 526, Luehmann includes as 
varieties of E. cory mbosa, E. terminalis, E. dichromophloia, and E. pyrophora :— 
as I find it impossible to draw a cleai' line of demarcation; the specimens from the dry interior and 
from the north-west have the leaves frequently of equal colour on both sides, and the fruits are occasionally 
rather ovate-truncate than urceolate. 
