120 
Some specimens of this timber were tested by Mr. E. A. Campbell ( Proc . 
Roy. Soc. Viet., 1879) for tensile strength. Ilis figures (pounds per square inch) 
are 23,000, 23,400, and 20,000. An inferior pieco broke at 11,700. The specimens 
broke with a very long fracture. 
Experiments on the transverse strength of the wood of E. macrorrhyncha , by 
Baron von Mueller and J. G. Luelimann. 
The specimens were 2 feet long and 2 inches square. 
Deflection. 
Total 
weight 
required 
to 
break each 
piece. 
Value of 
strength, 
LW 
S=- 
4BD J 
Specific Gravity. 
With 
the apparatus 
weighing 
780 lb. 
At the crisis 
of breaking. 
Air-dried. 
Absolutely 
dried. 
Inches. 
Inches. 
Pounds. 
•17 
•62 
2,412 
1809 
•952 
•809 
•17 
•60 
2,384 
1788 
1-060 
•901 
Here are three reports by experts on timber of ascertained botanical origin. 
“ The common Stringybark of Central and North-eastern Victoria is of less value as a timber 
tree than other Stringybarks.”—(A. W. Howitt.) 
“ Red Stringybark,” “ Forest Mahogany.”—Wood red, a good lasting timber, stands well in the 
ground, but is too free for posts. Two or three years ago I found some timber I had once helped to split. 
It was from a tree of this species, was used for a sledge for drawing timber when the ground was boggy. 
The timber was prepared for putting together, but thinking it too free for the purpose we placed the side 
pieces one on the other, covering them with large pieces cut off the sides and then with bark. When 
found about twenty-five years after, the bark had, of course, disappeared; on removing the chips, which 
were fairly sound, the two side pieces were found to be almost the same as when split, fresh coloured with 
the marks of the adze as if they had been made only twelve months previously. 
“ This and E. Sieberiana both very lasting woods ; best we have for posts except E. corymbosa .”—• 
(A. R. Crawford, Moona Plains, Walcha, in a letter to me, 1st February, 1896.) 
“ Red Stringybark. E. macrorrhyncha. A good and durable timber, as may be seen from the 
examination of the fences in the district, which are nearly all of this timber, and some of them very old.”— 
(Henry Deane, reporting on the timbers of the Glen Innes to Tentei field. Railway Line, 1885). 
Exudations. —It yields a ruby-coloured kino, soluble in water and spirit and 
an excellent astringent. 
Size. —A large tree. 
Habitat. — E. macrorrhyncha is found in Victoria (where the type came from), 
South Australia (?), New South Wales, and southern Queensland. 
Victoria. 
As regards its range in Gippsland, Mr. A. W. Howitt states:— 
“It commences at Glen Maggie, on the dry Silurian ridges, extends all along the stony ranges 
flanking the valley, and reaches analtitule of about 3,000 feet on the track leading up from the Wellington 
to the Snowy Plains.” 
