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showing a very smooth surface. Diameter, 15 to 24in.; height, 
40 to 6oft. , 
All the colonies except Tasmania and Western Australia. 
49. Acacia stricta, Wrl/d., (Syn. <A. emarginata, Wendl.; 
Mimosa stricta, Andr.); N.O., Leguminose, B.FI., ii., 358. 
“Berry-yung” is the aboriginal name at the Coranderrk Station 
(Victoria). 
This wood is of a beautiful texture, sound and durable. It is, 
of course, too small to have anything but a very limited use. 
Height, 3 to 8ft. 
Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. 
50. Acacia subporosa, F.v.M., (supporosa in Muell. Fragm. iv., 5); 
N.O., Leguminosz, B.FI., ii., 382. 
A valuable wood for many purposes. It is exceedingly 
tough and elastic; would make good gig-shafts, handles for tools, 
gun-stocks, etc. Tall, straight spars, fit for masts, can be obtained 
of considerable length, and 18in. in diameter (L. Morton). 
Height, up to 4oft. 
Victoria and New South Wales. 
51. Acacia tetragonophylla, 7.2.17, N.O., Leguminose, B.FI., 
ii., 330. 
Another Acacia bearing the absurd name of ‘“‘ Dead Finish.” 
The wood of this interior species is too small for anything 
except whip-handles. It grows very crooked as arule. Diameter 
up toa maximum of 6 or 8in. 
South Australia and New South Wales. 
52. Acacia torulosa, 2exth., N.O., Leguminosae, B.FI., ii., 405. 
Wood dark brown, tough, and strong. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
53. Achras australis, .2r., (Syn. Sapota australis, A.DC.; 
Sideroxylon australe, Benth. et Hook. f.); N.O., Sapotacez, 
B.FI., iv., 282. Sideroxylon australe in Muell. Cens., p. g2. 
The “ Black Apple,” “‘Brush Apple,’ ‘“ Wild,” or ‘‘ Native Plum,” of the 
colonists, as it has a fruit very like a plum, though of coarse, insipid flavour. 
