

37. Eucalyptus intertexta. 



R.T.B Pro Lini [900, p. [08, t. XVII.) 



Spotted Gum, Gum, Coolabah. 



Systematic. A large tree, up to 80 feel high, and .; feel oi 1 e in diameti 1 



Bark smooth, nearly to the ground; butt-bark hard and persistent, extending 

 a few feel up the trunk ; the smooth hark has pat* hes, or spots, and varies much 

 in colour, from brownish, all shades oi .1 lighter grey, and sometirm 

 quite chalky white. Leaves lanceolate-acuminate, mostl} under '1 inches long, 

 oi a pale yellowish, or sometimes bluish colour on both surfaces, not shining; 

 lateral veins spreading, but uot prominent, and almost quite hidden, intramarginal 

 vein close to the edge. Buds on slender pedicels from | to 6 lines long. Flowers 

 numerous, mostly in a terminal panicle. Calyx small, pyriform; operculum 

 hemispherical or conical, sometimes shortly acuminate. 



V 



Fruit. Variable in shape, sometimes cylindrical, 

 pyriform, with the thin rim incurved, whilst 

 at other times pilular in form, with a 

 constriction below the rim ; valves inserte I ; 



2 to 3 lines in diameter. 



The pyi \- much like E. pani 



culata; the coarser form like 1.. odoiata; the 



pilul I 1 . 1 1 1 . ■ ! 1 i - 1 '.'!,/' I 



polybractea. 



Habitat. New South Wales, Dubbo to the Darling River 

 [" ( rum "); X\ magei . Condobolin Coolabah ") ; 

 Mi. Hope (" yellow Ja kel " and " Gum < obar 



(" Coolabah," " Gum ' Di 5 dal I oolabah ") ; 

 Bodabah, jo mill east oi \ \ magee Mr. Mai 

 Cr, Rev. Vol [V, pt. 6, pp. 170 to 172, records 

 it from South Australia, \\ estei n \ n stralia 

 Northern Terrifc u ; 



Timber, — Timber very hard and red in colour, and very much interlocked, 

 in fact, so much so that it is stated to be almost impossible to split ; and though 

 being in good repute for durability, it is very little used owing to this difficultj 

 in cleaving. It should be a good timber for railwaj sleepers. 



REMARKS. / ■ ' m / 

 alar name oi " C01 ila bah but in th< field thei no doubt a 



l'ivr " with 1 i ' bai k, ai but this 



has a smooth bark ;t n< 1 reddish tin guished b name 



1 few othei ....;.] ,.iii " is an 



K. I .B.), whii It 1 of 1 1ia1 nai a y Inn- 



known as " ( lum," I 



■:ual name " Coolabal arled knotti eminently more to the A ngophora than to E. bicolor 



or this i timber, 



ESSENTIAL OIL. Leaves and terminal branchlets oi this species for 

 distillation were collected at Nyngan, New South Wales, in December, i 

 I In- yield oj oil was 0-2 per cent. fhe crude oil was of a lighl orange-brown 



