92 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 







Callitris quadrivalvis, Richard. 



North- Africa. A middle-sized tree, yielding the true sandarac- 

 resin. Tables made of the mottled butt-wood fetched fabulous prices 

 already at Plinius's time [J. St. Gardner]. 



Callitris verrilCOSa, R. Brown. (Frenelct verrucosa, A. Cunningham.) 



The Murray Cypress-Pine. Through the greater part of Australia. 

 Stems used for telegraph-posts [C. Moore]. Wood obnoxious to the 

 generality of insects, hard, heavy, light -coloured, pleasantly scented, 

 fit for furniture and flooring. Specific gravity, about 0'691 when 

 dried ; weight of a cubic foot, 43 Ibs. This tree disseminates itself 

 with great ease in sandy soil, and will succeed in the driest clime, 

 sometimes overpowering most other ligneous vegetation, even to the 

 extent of intrusiveness. Planks 2 feet wide can be obtained. 

 Dromedaries, according to Giles, browse on the foliage. Seeds will 

 keep three years. The specific name here adopted is more distin- 

 guishing than the synonym C. robusta and is coetanous. Some of 

 the other species are also among the trees, which may be utilised for 

 binding the coast- and desert-sand. They all exude Sandarac. 

 Probably it would be more profitable to devote sandy desert land, 

 which could not be brought under irrigation, to the culture of the 

 Sandarac-cypresses than to pastoral purposes ; but boring beetles 

 must be kept off. Stakes and long rails from this tree are much 

 sought. The wood of the closely cognate C. intratropica (F. v. M.) 

 is almost indestructible, not even attacked by Teredo and Termites 

 [M. Holtze]. 



Calodendron Capense, Thunberg. 



Eastern South-Africa. A large and handsome tree, called the 

 Wild Chestnut-tree by the colonists. Particularly fit for promenades. 

 The strong pale timber is used by waggon-builders. The tree grows 

 best in close damp forests [Sim]. Rate of growth in height at Port 

 Phillip, where it was first brought by the writer, about 1 \ foot in a 

 year. Fresh seeds readily germinate. 



Calophyllum tomentosum, Wight. 



India. Ascending in Ceylon to 5,000 feet, there called the Kina- 

 tree, attaining a height of 150 feet ; its timber is pale-red, light [Dr. 

 Trimen] ; used for bridges, masts and other select purposes ; a single 

 tree has been known to furnish wood to the value of 100 [Dr. 

 Watt]. The seeds afford an orange-coloured oil [Dr. Trirnen]. 

 This species is singled out of many for record here, as it should 

 thrive even in an only moderately warm clime. Some few congeners, 

 but not C. inophyllum, reach naturally also comparatively cool 

 regions. 



