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Callitris . 
THE CYPRESS PINES OE NEW SOUTH WALES. 
(Natural Order Conifers.) 
Timber. —See vol. ii, p. 33. 
So far as I am aware, no results of oil distillation of any of our native 
Cypress Pine timbers has yet been published. The following results obtained in 
•regard to the closely-allied C. quadrivalvis of North Algiers (now looked upon as 
Tetraclinis) will, therefore, be of interest 
Oil from Callitris quadrivalvis. —By distilling the sawdust of Callitris quadrivalvis, Yent. ( Thuja 
articulate, Vahl.), of Algeria, which yields the sandarac resin, E. Grimal* obtained 2 per cent, of a 
red-brown essential oil, possessing a phenol-like odour. It dissolves in every proportion in 80 per cent, 
alcohol, rotates in alcoholic solution to the left, and has the specific gravity 0 - 991 at 15°. It boils between 
230° and 306°, leaving a resinous residue. It contains about 5 per cent, phenols, consisting of carvacrol 
and hydrothymoquinone. In addition to these, thymoquinone was detected.—(Semi-annual Report of 
Schimmel & Co., April-May, 1905, p. 12.) 
No. 44. Part XII. 
Callitris Macleayana , F.v.M. 
Habitat. —See vol. ii, p. 39. 
Clarence Town.—(Forest Guard Ikin.) 
No. 45. Part XII. 
Callitris verrucosa 9 R.Br. 
Aboriginal Name— 
Murrumbidgee Pine, near Tumut, called “kara” by the aborigines.—(Dr. G. Bennett, “ Wanderings 
in N.S.W.,” i, 263.) 
Size (and Habitat). —See vol. ii, p. 41. 
This tree differs somewhat from a Mallee (Eucalyptus) in its form of growth, as it usually has a 
trunk, though at times only a few inches in length, and seldom more than 6 inches. Often it begins to 
spread level with the surface of the ground, hut it always had the appearance of branching rather than 
sending up separate stems like a Mallee.—(R. H. Cambage.) 
Among the Mallee about here (Mount Hope to Parkes) there is often a spreading Pine ( Callitris 
verrucosa, R.Br.), which grows with a short stem, and branches out almost from the ground. The fruits 
are larger than those of C. robusta, and are covered with pimples or warts full of a resinous substance 
South of the Lachlan this tree is sometimes called Turpentine.-—(R. H. Cambage, Proc. Linn. Soc. JS.S. IF., 
1901, p. 208.) 
Habitat. —See vol. ii, p. 41. 
Warialda, N.S.W. (Rev. H. M. R. Rupp). Fruits covered with tubercles, but 
tubercles smaller than in the type. Specimens like this show the difficulty of 
classifying Callitris. 
Compt. Rend. 139 (1904), 927. 
