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EUPHORBIACEAE. 
Phyllanthus Ferdinandi, /. Mwell.—Pencil Cedar. 
The name of pencil cedar is applied to the wood of this tree in 
“ Useful Native Plants of Australia,” p. 586. It forms a tree up to 70 
or 80 feet high with a trunk 12 to 18 inches in diameter, and Bailey, 
in his “Catalogue of Queensland Woods” (1886), p. 73, describes it 
as foows. “ A moderate-sized tree, with lively green foliage, the 
branchlets often reddish. Leaves oval-oblong, usually 3 or 4 inches 
long, but at times much longer. Flowers in the axils, or some 
distance up the stem towards the next leaf, very irregular, even on 
the same tree, in this respect. Along creek sides throughout 
Queensland ; also in N. Australia and New South Wales. Wood 
easy to work, close in the grain, and of a grey colour; warps in 
drying.’ 
RuTACEAE, 
Pentaceras australis, Hook. f.,—Scrub White Cedar. 
This tree is referred to in Maiden’s “ Useful Native Plants of 
Australia,” p. 584. The timber is described as close-grained, tough 
and firm, and the tree is said to attain a height of from 40 to 60 feet 
with a trunk diameter of 12 to 24 inches. 
RUBIACEAE, 
Hymenodyction excelsum, Wall.—Cedar Wood 
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This tree is referred to in ‘* Balfour’s Timber Trees,” 3rd ed., 
deciduous tree native of the Sub-Himalaya, and lower Himalaya 
from the Ravi eastwards, ascending to 5000 feet ; Central, Western - 
and Southern India; dry forests in Burma. The wood is white or 
brownish and is used for packing cases and other minor purposes. 
UrrTIcacrak, 
Ulmus americana, .—Michigan Cedar, White Elm. 
__A recent reference to the wood of the white elm being called 
Michigan cedar was noted in the “Timber News” for February 
Museum No. I, at Kew, where they have been on view for several 
Ulmus americana is widely distributed in North America 
