TIMBERS. 589 
529. Pittosporum undulatum, Vez?/., N.O., Pittosporez, B.FI., i., 
Vir. 
‘Native Laurel.” ‘Mock Orange.’ ‘‘Cheesewood”’ is a common 
name. ‘* Wallundun-deyren ” of New South Wales aboriginals. 
A small tree, with very close-grained, hard, white, or whity- 
brown wood, which, when seasoned carefully, is excellent for 
turning, and promises to be good for wood-engraving; sound 
transverse sections of more than 10 to 16in. would be rare, 
(Macarthur.) While this is one of the most homogeneous wood s 
we have, it has a fine grain (comparable in appearance to a mosaic 
of grains of sand), which would cause it, I fancy, to tear slightly 
under the graving tool. A slab 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 61lb. 40z. per cubic foot. It has 
been introduced into the Azores, where it protects the orange 
trees from wind, as it withstands the highest gales. Diameter, rft. ; 
height, 30 to soft. 
All the colonies except South and Western Australia. 
530. Podocarpus elata. = K.Br.. (Syn, P. ensifolia, R.Br; P. 
falcata, A. Cunn.; Wagera elata, F.v.M.); N.O., Conifer, 
B.FI., vi., 247. Vagera elafa in Muell. Cens., p. 109. 
“Pine.” ‘White Pine.” Called ‘‘She Pine” in Queensland. ‘Native 
Dea * Pencil Cedar.” ‘‘ Goongum ” 
New South Wales, and ‘‘ Kidney-wallum” of those of Queensland. 
“‘ Dyrren-dyrren ” of the aboriginals of Illawarra. 
This tree has an elongated trunk, rarely cylindrical; wood free 
from knots, soft, close, easily worked, good for joiners’ and cabinet- 
work; some trees afford planks of great beauty. (Macarthur.) 
Fine specimens of this timber have a peculiar mottled appearance 
not easily described, and often of surpassing beauty. The wood 
is tough, the fibre being much interlocked, and rather liable to very 
fine shakes. Itis silky and fine in the grain, lasting, and not readily 
attacked by white ants or Zeredo. 
Through inadvertence, this timber is erroneously described in 
the WV.S.W. Catalogue of the 1862 Exhibition as belonging to P. 
spinulosus. It may be mentioned that P. spzmulosus is never more 
of the aboriginals of Northern 
