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XXVII—TULIP WOODS AND TULIP TREES. 
W. DALLIMORE. 
Although the ‘plate of the same common name to several 
different kinds of woods must be cee to persons engaged in 
n the * ‘Diplomatic and Consular Report,” No. 4818, which deals 
with the trade and commerce between France and F rench Guiana, 
it is stated that the wood of Licaria guianensis, (Dicypellium 
caryophyllatum), is known in England as tulipwood and in France 
as rosewood. ‘This suggested that a compilation of the several 
timbers and trees to which the terms tulipwood and tulip tree are 
applied might be of value and the following list has been drawn u 
The term tulipwood appears to be associated with at least seven 
different kinds of trees. ‘I'wo of these, Harpullia pendula, Planch., 
and Physocalymma scabberrimum, Pohl, are in regular use in the 
cabinet trade; the others, Atalaya hemiglauca, F. Muell., 
Dicey toe caryophyllatum, Nees., Stenocarpus sinuatus, Endl, 
Owenia venosa, F. Muell., and Aphananthe philippinensis, Planch., 
are less well known 
Harpullia asain: Planch.—This Sapindaceous tree is found in 
the forests of New South Wales and Queensland, where it grows 
from 40 to 60 feet high with a trunk 12 to 24 inches in diameter. 
Its leaves are made up of from three to six, rarely more, ovate or: 
- oblong leaflets, and its small flowers, borne in loose panicles, are 
succeeded by winged fruits. The wood is tough, close-grained and 
beautifully marked with different shades of yellow, brown n and black. 
The colour, however, appears to depend to some extent on soil or 
climatic conditions, for Maiden reports (Bulletin Dorrigo Forest 
Reserve), that samples of wood from the Bellinger and Dorrigo 
regions are less handsomely marked than others from the Richmond 
River and farther north. nk specimen at Kew which 
measures 164 inches in width, shows 7 inches of yellowish sapwood 
and 94 inches of dark, prettily-marked heartwood. The wood is 
used for ceabinet-making, Leap ithe panels for doors, &c. The same 
author in “Notes on the Commercial Timbers of New South 
Wales,” refers to its use ne billiard tables, and in “ Useful Native 
Plants of Australia,” to its being the best wood in Australia for 
lithographers’ scrapers, and suggests a probable value for eet 
xamples of the wood are to be seen in Museums Nos. 1 and 3 
Kew, and in the latter building, a table top partly made of this 
wood gives a good idea of its value for the manufacture of high-class 
a ure. 
Physocalymma scaberrimum, Poh/.—The genus Physocalymma 
belongs a the Natural Order Lythraceae and is closely allied to the 
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