TIMBERS. . 593 
International Exhibition, 1879.) Diameter, 24 to 30in.; height, 
60 to 7oft. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
543. Randia densiflora, Bexth., (Syn. Cupia densiflora, DC.; 
Ixora Thozetiana, F.v.M.); N.O., Rubiacez, B.FI., ili., 412. 
Wood of a light colour, very close in the grain, hard, and 
tough; might prove suitable for wood stamps. (Cat. Queensland 
Timbers, Col. and Ind. Exh., 1886.) Not endemic in Australia. 
Diameter, 8 to 12in. ; height, 20 to 3oft. 
New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Australia. 
7 544. Randia Fitzalani, “v.47, (Syn. Gardenia Fitzalant, F.v.M.); 
N.O., Rubiacez, B.FI., iii., 411. 
The wood of this tree is straw coloured, close in, the grain, 
hard, and tough. 
Queensland. 
545. Ratonia anodonta, Benth., (Syn. Cupania anodonta, ¥.v.M.; E 
Schmidelia anodonta, F.v.M.); N.O., Sapindacee, B.FI., i., 
461.- Cupania anodonta in Muell. Cens; p24: 
* Cumgun” of the aboriginals of Northern New South Wales. 
A valuable wood, of moderate weight, and of a pinkish colour. 
A slab in the Museum appears to have absolutely unaltered during 
the last quarter of a century, but it has been judiciously cut. It 
dresses excellently, but has no remarkable figure. A second slab 
in the Technological Museum, which has been seasoned over 
twenty-five years (having been exhibited at the London Inter- 
national Exhibition of 1862), has a weight which corresponds to 
49lb. 30z. per cubic foot. Diameter, 20 to 36in.; height, 8oft, 
Queensland. 
546. Ratonia pyriformis, Benth., (Syn. Schmidelia pyriformis, 
F.v.M.; Cupania pyriformis, F.v.M.); N.O., Sapindacez, 
B.FI., i., 461. Cupania pyriformis in Muell. Cens., p. 461. 
; ‘Brush Apple.” 
Wood flesh coloured, firm, and tough. It has been suggested 
as suitable for axe handles, ‘The sample in the Museum has split 
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