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C. australis is often used. It is one of the most important of the | 
Old World cedars and is considered to be one of the most valuable 
woods of New South Wales. The tree varies greatly in size, but is 
often found from 90 to 120 feet high with a diameter of 4 to 6 feet. 
It sometimes, however, exceeds 200 feet in height with a diameter 
10 see Maiden, “ Forest Flora of New South Wales,” i, pt. 
por 9, . 55-63 , refers to one which is calculated to yield 
30, 000 feet of saleable timber when cut down, and to another which 
yielded 80,000 feet. The latter tree was wet off at 10 feet from the 
ground and measured 60 feet to the first branch. 
_ The heart-wood is reddish in colour, sieetiily marked, especially 
n some cuts, is easily worked, carves well, and is employed for all 
inde of furniture and cabinet work, panelling, &c., whilst it is 
considered to be one of the best of the Australian woods for car eee 
building and fittings for expensive houses. In India it is said to 
very popular for tea boxes and cigar boxes in addition to the one 
mentioned purposes. Several specimens, plain and emer are to 
e seen in Museums I and III, at Kew. Polished wood bears a 
resemblance to mahogany, and a. choicest furniture aod is said 
to be that from the junction of branches and trunk, for in such 
places it is very prettily curled. As a rule such sections are cut 
into veneer. An account of the tree as found in India is given in 
**Gamble’s Manual of Indian Timbers,” pp. 157-1 
Cedrela odorata, 7.—Havannah Cedar, Barbados Bastard Cedar, 
Cuba Cedar, Honduras Cedar, Mexican Cedar, Jamaica Cedar, 
West Indian Cedar, Cedar. 
The commercial importance of the wood of this 8. American and 
West Indian tree has resulted in ba numerous common names by 
which the timber is known. As in the case of the Australian 
and Indian C. Zona, C. odorata gies to a large size, and logs 
nearly 30 feet in length squaring up to 2 feet are imported into this 
country. The reddish-brown wood, although softer, is of almost as 
much importance for the manufacture of furniture, and for house 
_ and shop fittings, as true mahogany, while it is used very extensively 
in the manufacture of cigar boxes. Descriptions of the wood are 
given by Stone in “ Timbers of Commerce,” p. 36, and by Batterden 
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in * Timber,” p. 150 
Cedrela fissilis, Vi//.—Cedro. 
A specimen of the wood of this tree was sb ei at Kew some 
ose ago from Mr, G. Paddison. The section was brought from 
araguay, and the donor reported that = was obtained from a lofty 
tree, and that the wood was used for planks in ship-building, frames, 
carvings, canoes, and for every description of furniture. It is sai 
to have a disagreeable, sh oeonaee evr when fresh, but nothing 
can be detected from the Kew specimen 
Waa cepiodora, F. bath ile Cedar, Bog Onion, Onion 
Maiden says, “ Forest Flora of New South Wales,” iv, pt. xxxi, 
pp. 1-3, that the timber of this tree is a useful wood of the cedar class 
and that it is often sold as bastard cedar. It forms a tree up to 
100 feet in height, with a diameter of 18 inches, Like many other 
trees in Meliaceae it bears handsome pinnate leayes and large 
