

White Cedar. 



(Melia Azedarach, Linn.) 



This wood is light in colour and weight, and has a figure and texture not at all unlike 

 English " Elm " (Ulmus campestris}. It is open in the grain, has large annual rings, is 

 very easy to work, and known in the trade as Golden Cedar as well as White Cedar. It is 

 used for cabinet work, veneering, turnery, &c., and any kind of inside joinery, but is not 

 suitable where it is exposed to climatic changes. 



Description of the Tree. A large forest tree of the coast brush lands, and now 

 found in cultivation, as the long pendulous pinnate leaves (deciduous) give it quite an 

 ornamental appearance. Bark hard, compact, distinctly ridged or checkered. Leaflets 

 opposite, mostly coarsely lobed or toothed, ovate to lanceolate, i to 2 inches long. 

 Flowers lilac-coloured, in fairly large, loose panicles, but shorter than the leaves, covered 

 with a mealy tomentum. Sepals small, petals nearly \ inch long. Staminal tube hirsute 

 inside behind the anthers, ten to twelve-teeth. Fruit a white drupe, ovoid or nearly 

 globular. 



Geographical Range. Like most of our cabinet timbers it is found in the middle 

 area of the East Coast districts of the continent in the brushes. 



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