



New South Wales Maple. 



(Villaresia Moorei, F.v.M.) 



Our local names are not always expressive of a distinctiveness of some well-known 

 characters, and this is an instance. One generally associates Maple with Canada, and expects 

 in this connection to find a timber that possesses some of the well-known features of that class 

 of wood, but those are just what are not found in this case. It certainly is somewhat light in 

 colour, but that is about all that obtains in the connection. The figure more nearly approaches 

 that of English Beech, and the same may be said of the texture, hardness, and colour. It could 

 be used for all purposes to which English Beech is applied, and would make very pretty panels 

 or whole bedroom suites when the tout ensemble is white, or pale, coloured. 



Description of the Tree. A tall, handsome tree, found in the brush lands of the coast, 

 with a pale, comparatively thin, yellowish corrugated bark. Leaves ovate, lanceolate or 

 oval, acuminate, varying in size up to 3 inches broad, and 6 inches long; petiole short, 

 coriaceous and shining, pale on underside. Flowers in lateral raceme-like panicles 2 to 4 

 inches long. Fruit a drupe, globular, i inch diameter, the putamen hard, rugose outside. 



Geographical Range. Brush forests, Bunya Mountains, Queensland, to Bulli, New 

 South Wales. 



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