Maiden's Blush. 



(Echinocarpus australis, Benth.) 



This timber is not often seen in the market, although it has certain qualities that recom- 

 mend it for acceptance in the cabinet line. It has a nice figure, is a warm pink in colour, 

 comparatively soft, easily worked and dressed, and takes a good polish. It could be used for 

 motor-car work on account of its extreme lightness, and is a good wood generally, being suitable 

 for joinery and ornamental purposes, also for planking for small boats. 



Description of Tree. A common tree of the northern and southern brushes of the 

 coast of New South Wales and Queensland respectively, where it attains a height of 100 

 feet, and 2 feet or more in diameter. The bark is flat but not smooth. Leaves ovate, 

 acuminate, or obovate, oblong, up to a foot long, paler on the underside, sinuate toothed, 

 narrowed towards the base, but rounded or slightly cordate, coriaceous. Flowers in 

 fairly large axillary or terminal panicles, cernuous, on long slender peduncles. Petals 

 nearly an inch long. Sepals hoary. Capsule thick, woody, echinate, opening into three 

 or four valves about i inch long. 



Geographical Range. Coast district from Queensland to Kiama, New South Wales. 



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