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wherever lightness and durability are required. Its use, especially 
in New South Wales and Queensland, is so well known that it is 
unnecessary to dilate upon it. The junctions of the large 
branches with the stem furnish those beautiful curled pieces of 
which the finest veneers are made. Speaking of this wood the 
Jurors of the London International Exhibition of 1862 reported :— 
‘‘ A sideboard top made of veneers of root-pieces of this timber is 
of astonishing and perfect beauty, and resembles a rich marble.” 
A slab in the Technological Museum, about two feet square 
and two inches thick, cut from near the root, is of great beauty. 
It has a beautiful vertical marking, and branching from this, on 
either side, are beautiful parallel markings. A piece eight feet 
across, cut from near a fork, is of still greater beauty. 
The following is taken from Gamble’s Manual of Indian 
Timbers, speaking of C. Toona: “ Weight of cubic foot about 
35lb. The wood is durable, and not eaten by white ants; it 
is highly valued, and universally used for furniture of all kinds, 
and is also employed for door panels and carving. From Burmah 
it is exported under the name of * Moulmein Cedar,’ and as 
such is known in the English market. In North West India it 
is used for furniture, carvings, and other purposes. In Bengal and 
Assam it is the chief wood for making tea boxes, but it is getting 
scarce, on account of the heavy demand. The Bhutias use it for 
shingles and for wood-carving; they also hollow it out for rice- 
pounders. It is, or rather used to be, for very large trees are now 
rather scarce, hollowed out for canoes in Bengal and Assam.” 
It is one of the “‘ Chittagong woods’”’ of commerce. 
Mr. Allen Ramsome thus reports on a Queensland specimen 
sent to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition: ‘‘ This resembles the 
wood last mentioned (Dysoxylon Fraserianum), but is somewhat 
inferior. It is softer and lighter, and considerably coarser in grain. 
It planes and works very well, however, and would do for common 
cabinet-work. It is already known in ‘the English market as 
*Moulmein Cedar.’” . Mr. Ramsome could not have been given 
an average piece of cedar, but a very inferior one (and the finest 
timber in the world has some of inferior quality belonging to the 
same -species), or-he could not have written so lukewarm, or»even 
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