TIMBERS. ATT 
1. Very light colour; close in the grain; has gum veins; 
works easily. 2. Called also ‘‘ Bastard Box.” Diameter, 2ft. 
- Light red; full of shakes; a few gum-veins; bad to work. (S. 
districts.) 3. Diameter, 15in. Dark red; fairly sound; good 
to work. (Shoalhaven.) 4. No. 24 (London, 1862); 8g (Paris, 
1855). ‘‘ Gnaoulie” of the Illawarra aboriginals. Diameter, 36 to 
72in.; height, 100 to 15oft. ‘A very large and fine timber tree, 
its wood much prized for felloes of wheels and other work requiring 
strength and toughness.” 
Diameter, 36 to 48in. ; height, 100 to 13oft. 
Victoria, New South Wales, not much farther north than Port 
Jackson. 
287. Eucalyptus macrocarpa, “Zook., N.O., Myrtacee, B.FI., iii., 
ote 
“ Morrel.” 
Some spokes of this wood were exhibited at the Intercolonial 
Exhibition of Melbourne, 1886. It is also used for shafts and 
such purposes. 
Western Australia. 
288. Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha, /.v.d/7,, (Syn. 2. acervula, 
Migq.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 207. 
The ordinary ‘‘Stringybark” of Victoria and New South Wales. 
It is the “Ironbark” of the McAlister River (Victoria). It shares the 
Gippsland aboriginal name of '‘ Yangoora ” with £. cafitellata. 
A tall tree. The wood is hard and mostly tinged with a 
deeper red-brownish colouration, but occurs also pale-coloured ; 
it is durable and easily fissile into fence-rails, shingles, and 
palings, and is very useful for all purposes for which rough split 
timber is required above ground; it is also sawn into weather- 
boards and scantlings, and furnishes a fair fuel. The specific 
gravity of the seasoned wood is about 1.020, or 633lbs. to the 
cubic foot. (Mueller.) A sample from the Monaro, New South 
Wales, is an excellent furniture wood, being. light, strong, and 
close-grained, and capable of a good polish. It is, however, 
chiefly used for fencing and wheelwrights’ work in Southern New 
