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Mr. Breckenridge's site is by no means perfectly favourable far the 

 experiment, the soil being scarcely suitable, and the site too near the sea. 

 On the Upper Paterson and Allyn and Williams Rivers (the late Mr, 

 Augustus Rudder told me) there is ample scope on their banks, where, with 

 unused rich land, good results would attend moderate effort to produce a 

 fine growth of cedar in considerable quantity, but it would: require more than 

 twenty or thirty years to mature it for market. 



Re the growing of our Red Cedar, I have seen it in many places thriving well 

 in the open, where the soil was suitable. There were two on a property in 

 which I had an interest on the Macleay, where they were under my observation 

 for over fifty years. When first seen one of them was about 15 inches in 

 diameter ; the other about 18 inches. During the time mentioned, one increased 

 in girth to over 11 feet ; the other to over 12 feet. I do not think frosts injured 

 it at all. (The late Mr. Augustus Rudder.) 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 9. 



A. Flower (a) Calyx. (&) Petal, Cc) Stamen, (<?) Stigma, (c) Ovary 



half immersed in disk, (/) Pubescent disk. 



B. Young flower. 



c. Stamen, back and front view. 



D. Capsule opening in five valves, leaving the dissepiments attached' 



to the persistent axis (a) Valve, (6) Dessopiment, (c) Seed. 

 K. Winged seeds. 

 F. Cluster of fruits. 



Dysoxylum (Dysoxylon) Fraseranum, Benth. 



THE ROSEWOOD. 



Botanical Name. Dysoxylon,, from two Greek words dysodes or dysosmos 

 (foetid or ill-smelling), and xylon (wood), in allusion to the bad smell 

 (usually of a garlic character) of some species. This odour is strongest in 

 some 11011- Australian timbers. In the species under notice, the odour of the 

 timber is the reverse of ill-smelling. Fraseranum, in honour of Charles 

 Fraser, first Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, who early 

 collected the plant. 



Vernacular Name. " Rosewood," because of the odour of the freshly-cut 

 timber. It retains this sweet perfume for an indefinite period. 



Leaves. Dark, and rather shining on the upper side, paler underneath, 

 leaflets 5-10, average length 2|-3 inches (W. Dunn, referring to living trees 

 on the Macpherson Range). 



Floivers. Mr. Dunn states it flowers in the late autumn; later than Red 

 Cedar. The flowers have a very agreeable smell. 



Fruit. " Of a pretty rosy red " when quite ripe. 

 Bark. Often rather scaly; somewhat like Red Cedar. 



Timber. Characteristics : Of a reddish colour, and has a neat figure. Has, 

 a fragrant rose-odour. A timber of the mahogany class. Works splendidly, 

 shrinks little, and is of good appearance. 



