Spotted Gum. 



(Eucalyptus maculata, Hook.) 



Exception might be taken by some to the inclusion of this species as a cabinet timber; 

 in fact, it was not till this work was about to go to print that specimens of its adaptation in 

 this respect were produced. The waving of the grain is a distinct advantage in this connection, 

 and materially assists in the decorative side of the furniture recently made locally and exhibited 

 in Sydney. The colour somewhat resembles that of English Oak, and it is probably just as 

 hard and of the same texture to work. It is open in the grain and is not recommended to be 

 polished, as, like Oak, it shows to better effect in the unpolished or waxed condition. A 

 press of this timber was exhibited in the window of a Sydney firm lately, and looked really 

 handsome, although it was from a Eucalypt. This piece of furniture is now at the Common- 

 wealth Offices in Melbourne. For chairs, couches, &c., where strength is required, and the 

 size of the timber to be used has to be limited, it ought to give every satisfaction. 



Description of the Tree. An average forest tree amongst Eucalypts, with a 

 smooth, dull, lead-coloured bark. The sucker or abnormal leaves large, sometimes a 

 foot long, and 3 inches broad, lanceolate, venation oblique, well marked, intramarginal 

 vein close to edge. The normal leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 lateral veins oblique and distant, the intramarginal one removed from the edge. The 

 flowers occur in a corymb or panicle formed by three-flowered umbels with several together 

 in short leafless branches. Buds shortly cylindrical, operculum hemispherical, or some- 

 times conical. The fruit ovoid-urceolate, usually about i inch long and J inch broad; rim 

 narrow; capsule sunk. 



Geographical Range. From Brisbane River, Queensland, to southern Coast districts 

 of New South Wales. 





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