550 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
Wood of a dark grey colour, grain close, light, and soft; 
suitable for carriage brakes, lining boards, and similar uses. (Caz. 
Queensland Timbers, Col. and Ind. Exh., 1886.) 
Queensland. 
_ 401. Heterodendron diversifolium, /.v.J7., N.O., Sapindacez, 
B.F1., i.; 469. 
Wood of a reddish colour, and finely grained. Its great 
_ strength renders it fit for pick handles. Hill.) Itis of a lovely 
dark rosewood colour. Diameter, 3 to 8in.; height, 6 to 8ft. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
402. Heterodendron olecfolium, Desf, N.O., Sapindacex, B.FI., 
i., 469. 
‘Emu Bush.” “ Jiggo” of the Murrumbidgee aboriginals (New South 
Wales). ‘‘ Behreging”’ of some other aboriginals. 
A tall shrub. Timber very hard and heavy; used for rollers 
and rolling pins. It is of a yellowish colour, with a black or dark 
brown heart. It might be suitable for wood-engraving. Specific 
gravity of wood, .858. (Mueller.) 
All the colonies except Tasmania. 
403. Hibiscus heterophyllus, Vew/., (Syn. H. grandifiorus, 
Salisb.); N.O., Malvacez, B.FL., i., 212. 
“Green Kurrajong.” ‘‘ Dtharang-gange’’ of some New South Wales 
aboriginals. 
A tall shrub. Wooda pale yellow colour, and with open grain, 
smooth, and tough; suitable, probably, for making musical instru- 
ments, as it is a good conductor of sound. . (Cat. Queensland 
Woods, Ind. and Col. Exh., 1886.) It is a mostinferior wood. It 
-Iblackens with age, warps and splits greatly, is very porous, and 
has no figure. ~A slab of this wood in the Technological Museum, 
which has been seasoned over twenty-five years (having been 
exhibited at the London International Exhibition of 1862), has a 
weight. which corresponds to 28lb. 70z. per cubic foot. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
