TIMBERS. 377 
This timber is used for linings, ceilings, etc. It may be 
found a useful wood for turners. It is close-grained, light in 
colour, and Mr. Bailey suggests that it might do for stamps. It 
is not endemic in Australia. Diameter, 15 to 18in. Height, 
80 to goft. | 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
85. Apophyllum anomalum, /.v.J/,, N.O., Capparidee, B.FI., 
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Wood very hard. Diameter, 6 to 16in. Height, 20 to 
3oft. 
New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Australia. 
86. Araucaria Bidwilli, Hooker, N.O., Conifer, B.FI., vi., 243. 
The ‘‘ Bunya-bunya” of the aboriginals—a name invariably adopted by 
he colonists. 
The wood is not only very strong and good, but it is full of 
beautiful veins, and capable of being polished and worked with 
the greatest facility. (Hill.) It is not allowed by the Govern- 
ment to be felled on Crown Lands owing to its seed yielding an 
article of food to the aborigines. (See “ Foods.’’) 
A sample of this timber was sent to the Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition, and examined by Mr. Allen Ransome. He states: 
“‘This is a straight-grained, light-coloured, mild-working wood, 
often prettily marked. Judging by the experiments, it should 
make excellent framing, and as it planes well could be used for 
common furniture, as it is not inclined to warp or twist.” 
Diameter, 30 to 48in.; height, 100 to 15oft. 
An allied species A. exelsa (‘Norfolk Island Pine”) some- 
times has knots of enormous size. Mr. Holtzapfel (Turning and 
Mechanical Manipulation, i. 37) had portions of one which 
attained the enormous size of about four feet long, and four to six 
inches diameter. ‘‘In substance it is very compact and solid, of 
a semi-transparent hazel-brown, and it may be cut almost as well 
as ivory, and with the same tools, either into screws, or with 
eccentric or drilled work, etc.; it is an exceedingly appropriate 
material for ornamental turning.”’ 
Queensland. 
