630  Botany  Bay  or  Eucalyptus  Kino.  {AmDe0cU^9.arm' 
of  gum- resins  almost  certainly  applies  to  E.  corymbosa,  or  to  an  Ango- 
phora.  But  the  flower-buds  figured  are  of  a  eucalypt  (and  that 
excludes  Angophora),  while  they  are  as  unlike  those  of  E.  corymbosa 
as  possible.  The  bark  figured  is  smooth,  the  flower-buds  have  some- 
thing the  shape  of  those  of  E.  punctata  (included  by  Bentham  under 
Smith's  resinifera),  while  the  strongly-compressed  peduncle,  all  taken 
in  conjunction  with  the  smooth  bark  (E.  resinifera  bark  is  never 
smooth,  except  occasionally  on  the  branches),  may  show  that  Smith's 
figures  refer  to  E.  punctata.  Bat  the  kino  of  E.  punctata  is  liver  col- 
ored or  reddish  brown,  and  that  description  does  not  tally  with  that 
of  White.  All  this  tends  to  prove  the  truth  of  my  original  assertion, 
that  the  origin  of  the  figures  in  White's  book  will  probably  never  be 
known.  As  likely  as  not  the  bark  and  the  flower-buds  (no  other 
parts  being  figured)  were  from  different  species. 
It  will  be  seen  later  on  that  the  name  resinifera  was  a  singularly 
unfortunate  one  to  apply  to  any  species  of  eucalyptus,  firstly,  because 
they  are  nearly  free  from  resin,  and  secondly,  because  scores  of  spe- 
cies yield  this  exudation  (called  "  gum  resin  "  by  Smith)  very  freely. 
All  kinos  yielded  by  eucalypts,  if  they  have  been  exuded  sufficiently 
long,  will  be  found,  at  a  certain  stage,  to  be  only  soluble  in  water  to 
the  extent  of  one-sixth,  but  aeucalyptus  kino  almost  entirely  soluble  in 
spirit,  and  at  the  same  time  only  one-sixth  in  water,  is  an  impossibility. 
White's  description  (for  although  penned  by  Smith,  the  substance 
of  it  must  have  been  supplied  by  White)  has  partly  been  copied  by 
many  subsequent  authors.    A  few  extracts  will  suffice. 
"  E.  resinifera,  the  brown  gum  tree  of  New  Holland,  furnishes 
Botany  Bay  kino.  A  single  tree  will  yield  60  gallons."  Balfoui\ 
"  Manual  of  Botany."  E.  robusta  is  the  only  eucalypt  ever  known  as 
"  brown  gum,"  but  that  species  neither  exudes  kino  freely,  nor  is  the 
product  readily  soluble  in  spirit. 
"  Botany  Bay  Kino. — The  substance  called  by  this  name  is  the 
produce  of  Eucalyptus  resinifera  (Myrtacese),  and  other  species  of 
eucalyptus,  natives  of  Australia  and  Tasmania.  It  appears  to  be  a 
kind  of  extract,  and  has  properties  similar  to  the  official  kino." 
(Pereira,  "  Materia  Medica  ").  The  surmise  as  to  its  being  an  extract 
has  already  been  dealt  with. 
"  E.  resinifera,  the  Ironbark  tree,  a  native  of  Australia  and  Van 
Diemen's  Land,  and  several  other  species,  yield  an  astringent  sub- 
stance called  eucalyptus,  or  Botany  Bay  kino.    The  kino  resembles  in 
