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On rectification the usual amount of acid water and volatile aldehydes 

 came over below i(>o C. (corr.). Between 160-172, 54 per cent, distilled; 

 between 172-245, 22 per cent, came over; and between 245-270, 14 per cent, 

 distilled. These fractions gave the following : - 



First fraction, sp. gr. at 15 C. = 0-8633 ; rotation a,, 9-7. 

 Second ,, ,, - 0-8689; -10-5. 



Third ,, ,, = 0-9262; light did not pass. 



The saponification number for the esters and free acid was 3-8. 

 The differences in the characters shown by the oils of the three " Blood- 

 woods " E. corymbosa, E. intermedia, and E. eximia are given in the following 

 table : 



7. Eucalyptus intermedia. 



(R.T.B., Proc. Linn. Soc., N.S.W., 1900, p. 674.) 

 A Bloodwood. 



Systematic. A medium-sized tree, with a light-brow : n flaky bark. 

 Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, about 6 inches long, and i to ii inch wide or more, 

 pale on the underside ; lateral veins oblique, fine, numerous, parallel ; intra- 

 marginal vein quite close to the edge. Flowers mostly in large terminal corymbs ; 

 calyx turbinate, 4 lines in diameter, 3 lines long, on a pedicel ol about 4 lines. 



Fruit.- Urceolate, mottled, contracted at the orifice 

 to sometimes 2 lines; rim countersunk, with 

 a ringed edge; about 10 lines long, 5 to 7 

 lines in diameter. 



The fruits are not unlike those of E. corymbosa without 

 the expanding neck. 



Habitat. Richmond and Clarence Rivers to' South Coast 

 districts of New South Wales. 



Timber.- A pale pink-coloured timber, hard, straight-grained, and easy 

 to work. It is much closer in texture than the Sydney 'Bloodwood" (E. 

 corymbosa, Sm.). The figure is occasionally not unlike that of E. macuiaia, Hook. 



