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Timber. A reddish, fissile timber, used locally for furniture, veneers, 

 staves, gun-stocks, walking-sticks, picture-frames, &c. This timber is an 

 efficient substitute for the northern silky oaks (Grevillea and -rites) ; in 

 fact, it has long been used by the Illawarra dairy-farmers for such purposes 

 as butter-kegs. Jn the old days it was used to a limited extent for 

 shingles. Mr. Forester Brown told me it had been used for gun-stocks at 

 Taree. 



A Beefwood formerly grew at Milton, which I believe to be this species. Tlia 

 bar fittings in the " Termeil Hotel" are made from timber of the speck's pro- 

 cured at Milton. (R. H. Cambage.) 



I saw this work in 1892, shortly after its completion by Mr. Bevan, the 

 proprietor of the hotel, who was also a carpenter and joiner, and it looked 

 handsome. The timber is Stenocarpus saliynus. 



" A slab of this timber is of extreme beauty for the uniformity of the pale, 

 red-brown, mottled colour, with an undulating figure perfectly uniform, o 

 hard texture, easily worked. Altogether one of the most beautiful woods m 

 the Exhibition, and of the highest merit." (Jurors' Reports, London Inter- 

 national Exhibition of 1862.) As it ages it sobers down to a reddish-brown 

 colour, with a tendency to uniformity of colour throughout. Proteaceous 

 timbers are very characteristic in appearance, and this is no exception. 



A drawback to fissile timbers such as this is their fissility, and they 

 sometimes tear when in use. 



As to the beauty of this timber there can be no difference of opinion. 

 I would like to see it more frequently utilised for furniture, as it is a 

 really handsome furniture wood. 



Size. Usually 40 or 50 feet, with a stem diameter of 1 or 2 feet; but I 

 have seen trees twice as large or larger. 



Habitat. New South Wales and Queensland, extending from the Illa- 

 warra to Southern Queensland. The precise southern range of the species 

 is unknown to me, and I should bo glad of information on ,the subject. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 23. 



A. Flower before expansion. 



B. Expanded flower. 



c. Flower, petals (perianth), with stamens removed () Hypogy- 



nous disc, (?>) Stipitate ovary, </) Stigma tic disc, 

 n. Petal (perianth segment), with sessile anther. 

 K. Stigmatic disc. 

 F. Fruits (follicles). 

 o Seeds, showing the thin lamella) separating thorn. 



Mwadamia ternifolia, F.v.M. 

 THE QUEENSLAND NUT. 



Botanical Name. Macadamia, in honour of John Macadam, M.D., of 

 Victoria, Hon. Sec. of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria at the time 

 the plant was described before that body; ternifolia (Latin), terni (three 

 together), the leaves being commonly in threes. They, however, sometimes 

 form a whorl of four, and in very rare instances, even five. 



