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be picked off. It usually assumes one of two forms, viz., small 
scaly pieces, reminding one strongly of gelatine before it has been 
bleached and purified. The prevailing colour is dirty brown, and it 
is admixed with more or less accidental impurity. But with careful 
collecting a number of small tear-shaped masses may be obtained, 
which evidently present the gum in.a fairly pure form. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
30 Melia composita, Willd., (Syn. M. Azedarach, Linn.) ; N.O., 
Meliacez, B.FI., i., 380. In Muell. Cens., p. 9. 
“White Cedar.’ (For other synonyms and vernacular names, see 
* Timbers.’’) 
The tree yields a gum similar to that produced from the 
Acacia, plum and cherry trees ; it may be collected in considerable 
quantity. (Bennett.) A specimen of gum, said to be derived 
from this tree, is in irregular tears, rather adhesive and dull, with 
a shining fracture, amber-coloured and brownish, rather friable, 
mixed with fragments of bark, tasteless, soluble in water. (Cooke, 
Gums and Resins of India.) The author has seen an amber- 
coloured gum in small quantity exuding from trees of this species 
near Sydney, but never freely. 
New South Wales to Northern Australia. 
31. Nuytsia floribunda, &.Br., (Syn. Loranthus flortbundus, 
Labill.) ; N.O., Loranthacez, B.FI., iii., 387. 
‘‘A Mistletoe.” 
’ The gum from this tree is said to make good adhesive 
mucilage. 
Western Australia. 
32. Pittosporum bicolor, Hook., (Syn. P. discolor, Regel.; P. 
Huegelianum, Putterl.) ; N.O., Pittosporez, B.FI., i., 113. 
“ Whitewood ” of Tasmania, Called ‘‘Cheesewood”’ in Victoria. 
This tree is said to yield a pale, useful gum. (See P. undu- 
latum, “ Resins.’’) 
Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. 
