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DESCRIPTION, 



CCVI. E. intermedia R. T. Baker. 



In Pros. Linn. Soo. N.8.W. xxv, 674 (1900). With a figure of a fruit. 



A medium -sized tree with a light hroion fibrous hark. 



Leaves Lanceolate, acuminate, about C inches long, and 1-1| inches wide or more, pale on the 

 underside; lateral veins oblique, fine, numerous, parallel; intramarginal vein qdte clcse to the edge. 



Flowers mostly in la.'gc terminal corymbs. Calyx turbinate, 4 lines in diameter, 3 lines long, 

 on a pedicel of about 4 lines. Ovary flat-topped. Stamens all fertile; anthers parallel, opening by 

 longitudinal slits. 



Fruits urceolatc, about 6 lines long, -1-5 lines in diameter, contracted at the orifice to sometimes 

 2 lines; ri:n thin, capsule sunken. 



In the original description, the words " light brown fibrous bark " are in italics, and form part of 

 Mr. Bacucrlcn's report on the Ballina specimens, evidence, as far as it goes, that these should be taken as 

 the type. 



" A pale coloured timber, hard, straight-grained and easy to work. It is much closer in texture 

 than the Sydney Bloodwood (E. corymbosa). The figure is occasionally not unlike that of E. maculaia. 

 Gum-vein* are not infrequent. It is considered a good durable timber, and superior to that of E. corymlosa. 

 It has quite a metallic ring when the fractured edges of a piece are rubbed together." (Original description.) 



The colour of the timber is pale red, but paler than that of E. corymbosa, and 

 variable within limits. The name " White Bloodwood," as suggesting an absence of 

 red colour, is misleading; " Pale " or " Pink " is better. I have seen specimens which 

 dry so dark as to make the discrimination of the timber by colour somewhat difficult. 

 In my " Forest Flora of New South Wales,' ' xi, 27, I wrote — 



The timber is, when fresh, of a pale pink, although in process of time it turns nearly as dark as 

 ordinary Bloodwood (E. corymbosa). It seems also to have fewer kino-veins, and it is undoubtedly very 

 much more fissile. It seems to be very much more sparingly distributed than ordinary Bloodwood. 



Op. cit. p. 676, Mr. Baker compares the oils of E. intermedia, corymbosa, and eximia. 

 Speaking generally, he places the first " about half-way between " E. corymbosa aru) 

 E. eximia. 



RANGE. 



In the original description it is quoted from the following localities :— ■ 



(a) Ballina (W. Baeuerlen). 



(b) Richmond and Clarence Rivers (Rev. Dr. Woolli). 



(c) Barnc-y'n Wharf, Cambcwarra (W. Baeuerlen, P. Macpherson). 



