Queensland Kauri or Dundathu Pine. 



(Agathis [Dammara] robusta, C. Moore.) 



The occurrence of a true Kauri timber in Australia is perhaps of more commercial im- 

 portance than scientific. It adds another soft wood to our all too short list, and demonstrates 

 that if such will grow here under natural conditions, they will nourish all the better under 

 cultivation. The timber of this Kauri is rather more attractive than the New Zealand of the 

 same genus. It is a shade darker in colour, being pale brownish; dresses easily, takes a 

 good polish, and is suitable for table tops, furniture, or anything in the cabinet trade, also for 

 mouldings, architraves, skirtings, and the cheaper kinds of furniture. 



Description of the Tree. This is a fine, tall, upstanding tree, attaining a height of 

 150 feet and over, generally with a long straight barrel free from branches. Leaves more 

 often ovate than lanceolate, thick, from 4 to 6 inches long, and up to i inch wide, mostly 

 obtuse, shortly petiolate, midrib not prominent, finely striated longitudinally from 

 secondary bundles. Male amentum catkin-like, axillary or lateral, surrounded by a few 

 imbricate scales at the base, under 2 inches long. Fruit cohes ovoid-globular, under 

 5 inches long, and rather less than 4 inches in diameter ; macrophylls as broad as long, 

 closely imbricate, deciduous, flattened, broadly cuneate, more or less winged. Seeds 

 oblong-cuneate, flattened or emarginate, at the end one margin produced into a horizontal, 

 erect, or decurrent wing. 



Geographical Range. Coastal ranges of Queensland. 



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