She Beech or Bolly Gum. 



(Tetranthera reticulata, Meissn.) 



It would be difficult to explain the origin of the vernacular names, as the timber has 

 little in common with other Beeches. The wood is rather open in texture, soft, and a pronounced 

 figure often characterises it, when it looks very attractive under polish, which it takes very well. 

 It is light in weight, and seasons quickly, whilst it does not warp or twist under heat. In 

 joinery it could be used for panelling, sashes, sash frames, and fanlights, but care should be taken 

 not to use any sap wood on account of borers. 



Description of the Tree. A full-sized tree, having a thin, smoothish, reddish-coloured 

 bark, but sometimes rough and tesselated. Leaves obovate-oblong or oblong-elliptical, 

 obtuse or scarcely acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, mostly 3 or 4 inches long, not 

 thick, green on both sides ; primary veins not very prominent, the reticulations much 

 more conspicuous on the upper than on the lower surface. Flowers dioecious, in cymes 

 reduced to small umbel heads or clusters within an involucre of four concave deciduous 

 bracts. Fruit ovoid, resting in the enlarged, truncate, cup-shaped perianth-tube.; 



Geographical Range. From Rockingham Bay, Queensland, south to Gosford, New 

 South Wales. 



