378 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
87. Araucaria Cunninghamii, 47/., N.O., Conifere, B.FI., vi., 
243. 
Called variously ‘“‘ Moreton Bay Pine,” ‘‘ Hoop Pine,” and “ Colonial 
Pine.” By the aboriginals of the Richmond River (New South Wales) it . 
is called ‘‘ Coorong,” by those about Brisbane, ‘‘ Cumburtu,” and by those 
about Wide Bay (Queensland), ‘‘ Coonam.” 
The timber is an article of great commercial importance. It 
is strong and durable when dry, but it soon decays when it is 
exposed to alternate damp and dryness. When procured from the 
mountains in the interior of Queensland it is fine-grained, and 
susceptible of a high polish, equal to that of satin-wood or bird’s-_ 
eye maple. (Hill.) The pine obtained from the mountains is 
preferred to that obtained from the low lands near the coast. ) 
A piece of this timber was exhibited at the London Inter- 
national Exhibition of 1862, and is thus referred to:—‘‘ A noble 
specimen, which is rernarkable for the peculiar figure set up, by a 
series of remote, small, pea-shaped, pale clouded knots, arranged 
in quincunx order, somewhat like drops of rain in general effect, 
and not easily described. The sap-wood appears peculiarly liable 
to rot.” It yields spars 80 to 1ooft. long, and one tree has been 
known to yield 10,oooft. of timber. It is pale coloured, and 
extensively used for flooring and lining boards, also for punt- 
bottoms when kept constantly wet. It is apt to get ofa dirty 
colour with age. The specific gravity has been given (Sydney 
Mint Experiments, 1860) at .763. Two slabs of this wood in the 
Technological Museum, which have been seasoned over twenty- 
five years (having been exhibited at the London International 
Exhibition of 1862), have weights which correspond to 3olbs. 202. 
and 33lbs. 120z. respectively per cubic foot, or, in round numbers, 
a specific gravity of about .5. 
Mr. Allen Ransome thus reports on a sample of this timber 
sent from Queensland to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition : 
‘This is a rather harder and better wood than the last mentioned. 
(A. Bidwill’). It is of a light colour, with a straight grain, and 
planes very smooth with a rapid feed.’”” Diameter, 36 to 66in. 
Height, 150 to 2o00ft. 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
