TIMBERS. 375 
close-grained. (Drury.) The wood varies in weight from 28 
to 4olbs. per cubic foot. Height, up to 80 or goft. 
Northern Queensland. 
76. Alstonia verticillosa, 7.v.4/., (Syn. Alyxia actinophylla, A. 
Cunn.); N.O., Apocynez, B.FI., iv,, 313. 
Wood of light colour, soft and easy to work. 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
77. Alstonia villosa, B/ume, N.O., Apocynez, B.FI., iv.. 313. 
Wood of a light colour, close in the grain, works easily, is 
firm, and would probably be suitable for staves. (Cat. Queens- 
land Timbers, Col. and Ind. Exh., 1886.) This tree is not 
endemic in Australia. Height, up to 3oft. 
Queensland. 
78. Alyxia buxifolia, &.2r., (Syn. A. capztellata, Benth.) ; N.O., 
Apocynee, B.FI., iv., 307. 
Called “ Tonga-bean Wood” owing to its scent ; also ‘‘ Heath-box.” 
This straggling sea-side shrub, with a stem three to five inches 
in diameter, has a fine and close-grained wood, of a lightish-brown 
mottled appearance. It smells strongly of Coumarin. 
All the colonies except Queensland. 
79. Amoora nitidula, 2exth., N.O., Meliaceze, B.FI., i., 383. 
“A tall tree.” Wood of a light colour, tough, and close in 
the grain. 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland 
80. Angophora intermedia, DC., (Syn. Metrosederos floribunda, 
Smith); N.O., Myrtacez, B.F1., iii., 184. 
‘** Narrow-leaved Apple Tree.” Angophoras are called ‘‘ Apple Trees” in 
the colonies, from a fancied resemblance to those trees. 
This timber is subject to gum-veins, but when free from those 
defects it is used for naves and spokes of wheels, blocks, etc., and 
is cut into boards. It bears dampness well, and is hard and 
tough. It burns freely. Diameter, 24 to 36in.; height, 80 to 
10oft. 
Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. 
