Long Jack. 



(Flindersia Oxleyana, F.v.M.) 



This timber is also known vernacularly as Mountain Ash and Yellow Wood, but these 

 are only recorded here for identification of the wood and not to be perpetuated, as it is a distinct 

 advantage for a timber to have only one commercial name, and that, if possible, a descriptive 

 one of the wood, or at least one that shall give some index to its qualities. In this case the 

 adjective evidently has been given by timber-getters in reference to the long straight stem, for the 

 tree attains an average height of 120 feet, with an average diameter of 3 feet. The name Mountain 

 Ash is retained for the Eucalypts going under that appellation, and Yellow Wood for 

 Rhodosphaera rhodanthema, so that it is as well now to keep Long Jack for F. Oxleyana. It is a 

 light yellowish coloured timber, fairly hard, strong, durable, heavy, and close grained, especially 

 the latter in a transverse section. There is no sapwood, so that it cuts out to advantage. It 

 is suitable for bedroom suites, coachwork, panelling, picture frames, and other joinery and 

 cabinet work. The timber is sold in the markets under its several common names. 



Description of the Tree. A large forest tree of the Coastal brush land, attaining a 

 height of over 100 feet, with a thin, lightish coloured, compact, fairly smooth bark. 

 Leaves opposite, crowded under the flowering panicles ; leaflets four to ten, with or 

 without a terminal odd one, broadly lanceolate, oblique, inclining to falcate, narrowed into 

 a distinct petiolule, sometimes with minute stellate hairs underneath. Flowers in a loose 

 many flowered panicle, shorter than the leaves. Sepals very small. Petals a little larger, 

 glabrous, obovate, oblong. Fruit an oblong hard capsule, muricate, opening septicidally 

 into five boat-shaped valves or cocci, without any persistent axis. 



Geographical Range. The tree is fairly plentiful in the brushes of the North Coast 

 of New South Wales and South Coast of Queensland. 



