602 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
very hard, and tough. (Cat. Queensland Woods, Col. and Ind. 
Exh., 1886.) 
Queensland. 
576. Symplocos spicata, ‘ord. (Syn. S. Stawellit, F.v.M.) ; 
NO} Styracexs, B.FI., iv.) 292. 
“‘A moderate-sized tree.” Wood white and close-grained, 
but apt to warp and split. 
Northern New South Wales. 
577- Symplocos Thwaitesii, 77.47, N.O., Styracex, B.FL., iv... 
yee 
“A shrub or tree, attaining sometimes a considerable size.” 
Wood light in colour, fine in grain, and tough. 
Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 
578. Syncarpia Hillii, Bar7., N.O., Myrtacez. (Bailey, in Proc. 
R.S., Queensland, i., 86.) 
‘Turpentine Tree” and “ Peebeen ” of the colonists and aboriginals of 
Frazer’s Island (North Queensland). 
Wood of a dark pink colour, close in the grain, and tough; a 
useful building wood. (Bailey.) 
Frazer’s Island (Queensland). 
579. Syncarpia laurifolia, Zez., (Syn. Metrosideros glomulifera,. 
Smith ; AZ. procera, Salisb. ; MZ. propinqua, Salisb.; Tristania 
albens, A. Cunn.; Kampizia albens, Nees); N.O., Myrtacez, 
B.FI., iii, 265. /etrosideros glomulifera in Muell. Cens.,. 
P- 59 . 
“Turpentine Tree.’ ‘Booreea’” of aboriginals near Sydney. 
“ Pearbbie” of the aborigines of Frazer’s Island (Queensland). 
Timber valuable for piles and posts for fences, very durable: 
underground, and said to resist the TZeredo mavalis, damp 
and the white ant, owing to the resinous matter contained in it. 
At is used for ship-building and other purposes requiring a durable 
timber, but it is said to be comparatively soft and brittle. My own 
experience is against this, it is as hard as the average Myrtaceous. 
timber, and is not brittle when the sap-wood is removed. It takes- 
