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Red Mahogany. 



(Eucalyptus resinifera, Sm.) 



Only rarely now is this timber found in cabinet work, and it requires careful selection 

 before use, as it is subject to borers, which of course detracts considerably from its value. If 

 obtained free of these it looks very well when worked up into various articles of cabinet work, 

 especially if the choice rest with a red coloured timber. It is hard, heavy, close grained, dark- 

 red in colour, dresses well and takes a good polish, and is in many respects very similar to 

 Jarrah, and could be used for the same purposes. 



Description of the Tree. A tall forest tree extending nearly throughout the whole 

 range of the Coast district of New South Wales to Queensland. Leaves lanceolate, rather 

 large and broad, thick, drying a light green colour on both sides ; venation faint, the 

 lateral veins almost transverse and parallel, the intramarginal vein close to the edge. Oil 

 glands few. Umbels axillary; stalk compressed, number of flowers varying up to 

 twelve in an umbel. Buds pedicellate ; calyx hemispherical. Operculum conical (some- 

 times several lines long) or hemispherical and acuminate. Stamens all fertile ; anthers 

 attached to a comparatively large connective parallel, broad at the top. Fruit hemi- 

 spherical, usually 3 lines in diameter, rim thick, capsule sunk, valves acutely acuminate, 

 well exserted. 



Geographical Range. From Rockingham Bay, Queensland, to Port Jackson, New 

 South Wales. 



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