Fire Tree. 



(Stenocarpus sinuatus, Endl.) 



A most attractive, delicate-looking wood, being light in colour, and fairly so in weight. 

 The medullary rays are comparatively small, but showy, having a sheen, and embedded in the 

 paler tracheids of the secondary wood, thus stand out very distinctively. It is somewhat like 

 American Sycamore, and is not easy to distinguish from it in general facies. It dresses well and 

 takes a good polish, and could be used for indoor decoration and furniture with most artistic 

 effect. This timber much resembles Silky Oak (Orites excelsa), and is suitable for any purpose 

 for which English, American or Silky Oaks are adapted. 



Description of the Tree. A large tree of the brush lands of the coast, having a 

 fairly smooth bark. It is often found in cultivation on account of its showy and 

 remarkable flowers. Leaves either entire and oblong-lanceolate, and 6 to 8 inches long, 

 or pinnatifid, and above i foot long, with one to four oblong lobes on each side mostly 

 obtuse, quite glabrous or reddish underneath, penniveined. Flowers in umbels on 

 axillary peduncles, each peduncle 2 to 4 inches long, twelve to twenty bright red flowers 

 in each umbel, radiating in a single row round the disc-like dilated summit of the 

 peduncle. Perianth tube about i inch long. Fruit a follicle, narrow, coriaceous ; seeds 

 produced at the lower end into a membraneous wing. 



Geographical Range. Occurs in the brushes of the North Coast of New South 

 Wales and Southern Queensland. 



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