Rosewood. 



(Dysoxylon Fraserianum, Bentham.) 



This tree, like its other congeners, nourishes in the brushes, and is still fairly plentiful. 

 The wood has been extensively employed in furniture manufacture, and is so to an extent 

 now, although it has a serious drawback in some specimens in that it " sweats," to use a trade 

 expression. It would be a distinct gain if this objection could be removed, for it would add an 

 otherwise most valuable addition to our cabinet timbers. It has a pleasing red colour, although 

 too light for some tastes, but is often considerably dark stained when made into furniture. It 

 planes well, is easily worked, light in weight, and fairly hard. The texture is closer than Red 

 Bean or Cedar, and in this character more approaches the Queensland Maple. 



Description of the Tree. One of the tallest trees of the Coast brush lands, attaining 

 a height of 200 feet, with a thin, yellowish, flaky or tessellated bark. Leaflets five to 

 nine, oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, 3 to 6 inches long, narrowed and equal 

 at the base. Domatia often present on the underside. Flowers in short panicles in the 

 upper axils, loose, divaricately branched, slightly pubescent. Calyx cupular, very small, 

 shortly and broadly four-lobed. Petals four, about ]- inch long; staminal tube eight- 

 toothed, glabrous. Fruit a globular or pear-shaped capsule, opening loculicidally in three 

 to five thickly coriaceous valves. 



Geographical Range. This is essentially a brush timber of the North Coast of New 

 South Wales and the South Coast of Queensland. 



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