THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
JANUARY,  1897. 
THE  MURRAY  RED  GUM  (EUCALYPTUS  ROSTRATA, 
SCHLECHT)  AND  ITS  KINO. 
By  J.  H.  Maiden, 
Government  Botanist  of  New  South  Wales  and  Director  of  the  Botanic 
Gardens  at  Sydney. 
Aboriginal  Names. — By  the  aboriginals  of  the  lower  Murrum- 
bidgee  it  used  to  go  by  the  name  of  "  Biall,"  while  to  those  of  the 
western  interior  it  was  known  as  "  Yarrah,"  a  name  which  it  shared 
with  some  other  trees.  The  specific  name,  rostrata  (beaked),  is  in 
allusion  to  the  way  in  which  the  operculum  is  drawn  out  to  a  point 
like  a  beak  or  snout,  as  shown  in  the  figure. 
Other  Vernacular  Names. — Besides  being  known  as  "  Red  Gum," 
it  is  the  "  Flooded  Gum  "  of  the  interior  of  Western  and  South 
Australia.  In  western  New  South  Wales  it  is  called  "  Creek  Gum," 
as  it  is  always  found  near  watercourses.  There  are  several  trees 
which  grow  under  the  name  of  "  Red  Gum  "  in  these  colonies.  One 
of  them  is  the  smooth-barked  apple,  Angophora  lanceolata,  which,  in 
New  South  Wales,  is  often  called  red  gum,  but  most  of  the  trees 
known  by  that  name  are  Eucalypts.  The  red  gum  of  Western 
Australia  is  Eucalyptus  calophylla,  while  in  the  neighborhood  of 
St.  Vincent's  Gulf,  South  Australia,  Eucalyptus  odorata  goes  by  that 
name.  In  New  South  Wales  two  other  valuable  timbers  also  go 
under  the  name  of  red  gum,  viz.:  Eucalyptus  tereticornis,  a  tree 
bearing  close  affinity  to  rostrata,  but  it  is  essentially  a  forest  timber, 
in  contradistinction  to  rostrata,  which  is  a  river  timber.  Then  the 
leather-jacket  or  gray  gum,  E.  punctata,  is  also  known  as  red  gum 
occasionally ;  but  the  red  gum  par  excellence  of  these  colonies  is 
Eucalyptus  rostrata,  and  by  way  of  distinction  I  have  denoted  it — on 
account  of  its  most  celebrated  locality — Murray  Red  Gum. 
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