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and therefore we haye to import other kinds, principally softwoods, in large 
quantities. Almost all the imported species could be grown successfully in 
our colony, and thus thousands of pounds would go into colonial hands, and 
provide employment for an increased population (the colonial revenue conse- 
quently being increased), which now go elsewhere. 
Nortr.—lIn the descriptive accounts of the timber trees of Queensland given in this series of 
articles, no scientific arrangement has been followed. 
SOME TIMBER TREES OF QUEENSLAND, 
I, THE BLOODWOOD (EUCALYPTUS CORYMBOSA, Sm.) 
Boranroan Descrtetioy.—The Bloodwood, one of the most common of our 
Queensland timber trees, is a tree of varied size. In the coastal districts it is 
only a small, stunted, or middle-sized tree, whilst in inland districts it becomes 
a fair-sized tree, often attaining large dimensions. In height it varies from 50 
and 60 feet to as much as 190 and 120 feet, with a diameter of from 2 to 4 feet 
or more. f 
Bark.—The bark is rough, spongy, or porous, furrowed, and slightly 
fibrous, somewhat scaly in appearance, of very rapid growth, and rich in 
kino or gum. It covers the whole of the trunk of the tree, and the branches, 
extending even to the tips of the smallest twigs. It is of a reddish-brown 
colour, more or less blotched with blood-like stains of gum or kino. 
Leaves.—The leaves are rather thick, alternate (that is, one above the 
other), or opposite (that is, in pairs, one on one side and the other on the 
opposite side of the stem) ; lanceolate (or like a lance-head) or ovate-lanceolate 
(eggshaped or broadest at the base) in shape, and tapering to a sharp point; 
from 3 to 6 inches in length; with numerous transverse (running at right 
angles from the mid-rib (middle-vein) to the edge of the leaf) parallel veins, 
often so fine as to be scarcely visible. If the young leaves be pulled asunder, 
anumber of fine glutinous or sticky threads will be noticed, like indiarubber 
in appearance and substance. When the leaves shoot from an old batt or trunk 
they are often covered with numerous fine hairs. 
Flowers.—The flowers are rather large on short stems (pedicels) about 
a quarter of an inch in length, three or four or more ona larger stalk (peduncle), 
the whole of these forming a kind of terminal corymbose panicle—that is, the 
branches upon which the flowers grow are of various lengths, and the whale 
raises all the flowers until they are about the same height. They are white or 
creamy in colour, and appear in blossom from November to February, and even 
as late as April. It flowers very profusely, and at a very early age. 
Fruit.—The fruit is urceolate, or shaped like an urn or little pitcher, from 
half to nearly an inch in length, with numerous large eggshaped seeds, each 
more or less bordered by a narrow wing. 
VERNACULAR AND Screntiric NamEs.—The Bloodwood derives its ver- 
nacular or common name from the kino, or gum as it is more commonly called, 
which exudes, often in large quantities, from the trunk of the tree, and which, 
when newly exuded, has every appearance of a stream of blood. The family 
name, Lucalyptus, which is given to the whole of the “gum”? trees (so-called) 
of Australia, is derived from two Greek words—uw, well, and Kalypto, I cover, 
and:was given to the family by the French Botanist, C. L. de Brutelle 
L’Heritier, in allusion to the little, somewhat conical, cap, which covers the — 
unexpanded flower, and which is thrown off when the flower opens. ‘The 
specific name, Corymbosa, is from the Greek Korwmbos, or Latin Corymbus, a 
summit, and was given to it by Sir J. E. Smith (the founder of the Linnean 
Society) from the form of the inflorescence. A perfect corymb is one where 
the stalk of each individual flower is gradually elongated, or lengthened, in 
such order that all the flowers are brought approximately to the same level on 
the top. That of the Bloodwood, however, is not a perfect one. 
