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Litscea reticulata, Benth. 
She Beech or Bolly Gum. 
(Family LAURACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Litscea, already described. (See Part XLIV, p. 86.) 
Botanical description.— L. reticulata , Benth., in Benth. and Hook. Gen. 
PI. iii, 161 (1880). 
A tree of considerable size, glabrous except the flowers, or the young shoots minutely silky- 
pubescent. 
Leaves obovate oblong or oblong-elliptical, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, narrowed into a petiole, 
mostly 3 to 4 inches long, not thick, green on both sides, the primary veins not very 
prominent, the reticulations much more conspicuous on the upper than on the lower surface. 
Peduncles 3 to 5 lines long in the males, much shorter in the females, usually in short irregular 
racemes or clusters, on a common rhachis at first very short but sometimes lengthening to 
j inch, glabrous as well as the bracts. 
Perianth-segments 6, narrow, acute, silky-villous. 
Stamens in the males—6 outer ones rather longer than the perianth, and without glands ; 3 inner 
rather shorter, each with a pair of glands. 
Staminodia in the females shorter than the perianth. 
Ovary glabrous ; stigma broad and lobed. 
Fruit ovoid, resting in the enlarged truncate cup-shaped perianth-tube. (B.F1. v, 306, as 
Tetranthera reticulata, with the figure 6 added to “ Perianth segments.”) 
Botanical Name. — Litscea, already explained (see Part XLIV, p. 86) ; 
reticulata, Latin, reticulated, in reference to the netted appearance of the venation 
of the leaves, as brought out in the figure. 
Yernacular Names. —This tree is one of those which produces the timber 
known as Bolly Gum in commerce. The original specimen, the type, was called 
“ White Sycamore ” by Sir William Macarthur, and it also goes under the name of 
“ She Beech,” while I have received it under the name of “ Flindosa.” Mr. 
Forester G. R Brown, an excellent observer, called it “ Scaly or Yellow Beech.” 
The following note by Mr. It. T. Baker in regard to timber passing under 
the name of “ She Beech ” will be found useful :—- 
There has long been a doubt as to the exact botanical determination of the marketable timber 
passing under the name of “She Beech.” Many authors have referred it to Cryptocarya glaucescens, 
R.Br., and specimens of timber exhibited in International Exhibitions, and now in the Technological 
Museum, were labelled with the latter name queried; but I think now the matter can be definitely settled, 
as I have acquired botanical (timber and flowering) specimens from Gosford, Port Macquarie, and Lismore, 
and without doubt “ She Beech ” is Tetranthera reticulata , Meissn. 
