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Material of this species was also obtained from Xarrabri, N.S.W., in 

 July, 1001. The oil was practically identical with the above, the only noticeable 

 difference being a less yield; but this is probably due to ihe leaves being collected 

 in midwinter. The secondary odour had ,i siron resemblance to that of 

 cinnamon. Yield of oil = 0-07 per cent. Specific gravity of crude oil = 0-8873 

 and optical rotation a n + 8-4. Cineol could not be detected, and phellandrene 

 was absent. The presence of the sesquiterpene wjs indicated by its characteristic 

 colour reactions. 



5. Eucalyptus terminalis. 



(F.v.M., in Jour. Linn. Soc., iii, 89.) 

 A Bloodwood. 



Systematic. -A fair-sized tree, with a brick-red, flaky bark. Leaves 

 lanceolate mostly under 4 inches long, light yellow in colour, coriaceous ; intra- 

 marginal vein close to the edge.; lateral veins numerous, fine, almost transverse, 

 parallel. Oil glands appear to be quite, absent. Umbels in a broad, terminal 

 corymb. Calyx 3 lines long and 3 lines in diameter, bell-shaped, pedicels 3 lines 

 long ; operculum hemispherical, shortly acuminate. , 



Fruit. Urn-shaped ; rim countersunk ; under i inch 

 long, and up to 8 lines in diameter. 



Care is required, in somi instances, not to confound the 

 fruits with those o/E. eximia and E. intermedia. 



Habitat. The Northern interior of New South Wales; West 

 Australia ; South Australia ; Queensland. 



REMARKS.- -This Eucalyptus tree closely resembles E. eximia, Schau., and E. intermedia, R.T.B., in 

 the shape of the fruits and the nature of the timber and bark, but has paler and smaller leaves. Mueller and Bentham 

 were inclined to regard it as a variety of E. corymbosa, Sm., but it differs from that species in fruit, timber and 

 leaves. The scarcity of oil glands is a distinguishing fe turc in this, as in most of the " Bloodwoods." The 

 leaves are thick and of a yellowish colour, probably being rich in the dye myrticolorin. v 



ESSENTIAL OIL. A quantity of leaves (60 Ib.) was received from the 

 far interior of New South "Wales, but as the leaves showed an entire absence of 

 oil glands, and other indications for oil were so unsatisfactory, no distillation 

 was made. It is evident that several hundreds of pounds of material would 

 be necessary in order to obtain sufficient oil to enable an investigation to be 

 undertaken, 



