62 Queensland's plant associations 



plentiful. It is well known also from the scrubs in Southern 

 Queensland. 



Cedrela Toona or Red Cedar, knoA^Ti near Herberton as 

 " Wanga," is a tall tree of the same family. Its red col- 

 oured wood of a beautiful grain is very valuable and much 

 required. This tree is getting scarce. 



Flindersia Chatawaiana or Maple, again a representative 

 of the Meliaceous plants, is very plentiful and has a nice 

 wood, which is extensively used. 



Flindersia Schottiana or Ash is also plentiful ; it is 

 known under the native name, "Bunji Bunji." 



Casta7iospermum Australe is the well-known Bean Tree ; 

 it is plentiful in different types of vine-scrub. 



Xanthostemon chrysanthus or Pender is very plentiful. 



Eugenia hemilampra or Mahogany is rather scarce. 



Alstonia scholaris or White Pine, which is very common 

 in the scrubs on alluvium, is not too plentiful on the basaltic 

 plateau. 



Gmelina fasciculifiora or White Beech is plentiful, as is 



Daphnandra aromatica, the so called Sassafras. 



Cryptocarya Palmerstoni or Walnut is very plentiful. 

 Its characteristic nuts are to be found everywhere in these 

 scrubs. 



Under the name of Silky Oak (or Silky Wood), there are 

 known 4 different trees, which are more or less plentiful. 

 They are : — 



Darlingia spectatissima 



Cardwellia sublimis. 



Slenocarpus sinuatus. ^^ 



Embothrium Wickhami. ) 



Agathis Palmerstoni or Kauri Pine is rather plentiful 

 and attains an immense size. 



Podocarpus pedunculata or so called Black Pine is 

 scarce. 



Darlingia araliifolia or Bull Oak is a very plentiful 

 tree. 



Blepharocarya involucrigera or Bally Gum is very plenti- 

 ful also. 



A different type of vine-scrub is often found in a belt 

 along the coast. I use only for these scrubs the name, 

 " Coastal Scruhs.^^ The trees growing here are not only 

 botanically different, but differ also in their ecology, as 



