TIMBERS. | 603 
a high polish. When employed for uprights in buildings it is 
liable to warp when much exposed. It is a difficult wood to burn, 
as it will only char, and is consequently easily extinguished; a 
useful property in buildings. It is apt to shrink and warp 
unless it is well seasoned, ‘It is the best wood for railway 
sleepers, and posts of it have stood for twenty years.” (furors’ 
Reports, London International Exhibition of 1862.) A pile 
was exhibited at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, 
taken from a jetty at Brisbane Water, near Sydney, where it 
had been fully exposed to the action of the waves of the 
Pacific Ocean for twelve years. It had been entirely un- 
protected, yet on cutting it through it was found to be perfectly 
free from decay and from the attacks of the Zeredo. Many 
wharves in Sydney are constructed on piles made of this timber. 
The sap-wood is of a light colour, all the rest is dark brown. A 
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 
631b. 20z. per cubic foot. Diameter, 48 to 6oft.; height, 100 to 
150ft. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
580. Syncarpia leptopetala, #.v.47., (Syn. Metrosideros leptopetala, 
F.v.M.); N.O., Myrtacez, B.FI., iii., 266. Metrosideros 
leptopetala in Muell. Cens., p. 59. 
“Brush Turpentine.” ‘ Myrtle.” 
Timber hard, heavy, and durable; used for turnery, etc. 
Diameter, 24in.; height, 50 to 6oft. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
581. Synoum clandulosum, A. Fuss., (Syn. Trichilia glandulosa, - 
Smith); N.O., Meliacez, B.FI., i., 384. 
“Dogwood.” ‘* Brush Bloodwood.” “Rosewood.” ‘ Mocondie ” of 
the aboriginals of the Richmond and Clarence Rivers. ‘‘ Wallaon” is an 
aboriginal name in the Illawarra district (New South Wales). 
Timber firm, and easily worked. When fresh it is of a deep 
red colour, and emits a scent like that of the common rose; it is 
used for cabinet purposes, for which it has long been highly 
