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Botanical Name.— Eucalyptus, already explained (see Part II, p. 34) ; 
Behriana, in honour of Dr. Hans Hermann Behr, a medical man, born at Coethen, 
Duchy of Anhalt, Germany, 18th August, 1818. He was long resident in South 
Australia, where he collected extensively. He co-operated with Mueller in botanical 
matters in Adelaide in 1S47 and 1848. He returned to Germany in 1848, and 
shortly afterwards left for San Francisco, where he spent the remainder of his life, 
dying there on the 6th March, 1901. He published a flora of San Francisco, and 
was also interested in entomology and ethnology. For a fuller account of Dr. Behr, 
see («) my Presidential Address to Section D in Proc. Anst. Asso \ Ado. Science, 
Adelaide, 1907; ( b ) my “ Records of Australian Botanists” (1st Supplement) in 
Proc. Aust. Assoc. Ado. Science (Sydney, 1911). 
Vernacular Name. —The “Broad-leaf Mallee” is as good as any. E. incras- 
sata, and especially its variety angulosa, are also broad-leaf Mallees, but our present 
species usually has broader leaves, and certainly contrasts well with the other 
Mallees found associated with it. 
Bark. —The bark is always smooth, and commonly of a whitish or dirty 
white colour, or, according to one observer, of a “ dark oily-looking green ”—the 
latter referring to vigorous young stems. 
Leaves. —Large, thick, shining. At page 285 of “ Research on the 
Eucalypts,” Messrs. Baker and Smith thus summarise the constituents of the oil:— 
Species. 
! Whence 
collected 
for Oil. 
Specific 
Gravity 
at 15° C. 
Specific 
Rotation 
W D. 
Saponification 
Number. 
Solubility 
in Alcohol. 
Constituents found. 
Behriana. 
Wy along, 
0-9237 
+ 4-0° 
11-1 
1^ vols. 
Eucalyptol, pinene, 
N.S.W. 
70 per cent. 
sesquiterpene. 
A Victorian correspondent familiar with the plants used for oil distillation 
in that State, writes “ Leaves not used for oil.” 
Timber. —The timber is red, but small. It is not used in the arts, but forms 
an excellent fuel. 
Range. —It has hitherto been recorded from a few localities in South 
Australia, and certain of the drier parts of Victoria and New South Wales. 
Besides those localities mentioned in the original description, Mueller quotes 
(“ Eucalyptographia ”) “ in the hilly forest region of Wirrabara, near Crystal Brook, 
and Mount Remarkable, on deep marly clay-soil ” (J. E. Brown), and quotes Dr. 
Behr, “in the scrubs of Sandarac-Cypresses ( Callitris ), near the Gawler River.” 
Prof. Ralph Tate, in his “ Flora of Soutli Australia,” states that it is found 
in the northern agricultural areas, the Port Lincoln District, Kangaroo Island, and 
south of the Murray Desert. I have it from Truro, 70 miles north of Adelaide 
(Dr. J. B. Cleland). A few more specific South Australian localities are desirable. 
4881—B 
