forms winged projections on the twigs. The alternate, palmate, shiny leaves have usually five pointed, finely toothed lobes, and are fragrant when bruised. In the autumn the star-shaped leaves turn brilliant red to purple, making a valuable ornamental tree. The staminate flowers are inconspicuous, the pistillate in spherical heads maturing into long-stalked, globose masses of spiky-tipped capsules. The wood is fine-grained, moderately hard and fairly strong; the heart wood is known as red gum and hazelwood, is variously coloured red and brown, the sapwood is paler. From incisions made in the tree a gum exudes which is resinous( storax) and adhesive, and somewhat like white turpentine in appearance, which finally hardens. Medicinal Parts: The bark and concrete juice. Solvents: Boiling water( bark, partially), warm alcohol( more completely). Bodily Influence: Stimulant, Expectorant, Diuretic, Antiseptic, Disinfectant. Uses: As a remedy for catarrhs of genito-urinary passages, coughs of pulmonary affection generally, gonorrhoea, gleet, amenorrhoea, leucorrhoea, phthisis( wasting disease, tuberculosis of the lung, consumption) and asthma. Also excellent for bloody flux, dysentery and all bowel complaints of children. Dose: 1 teaspoonful of the cut or granulated bark to l cupful of boiling water; drink 1 or 2 cupfuls a mouthful at a time during the day; adjust to condition and age. Externally: The balsamic juice may be melted with equal parts of olive oil or tallow as a detergent ointment when conditions of indolent ulcers, frost-bite, scabies, itch, ringworm, fistula, scrofula, fever sores and haemorrhoids are present.