Corkwood, 



(Ackama Muelleri, Benth.) 



It is only occasionally that this timber finds its way into the Sydney market. It i& 

 specifically light, very easy to plane, soft, with a close grain, having a small neat figure when 

 cut on the quarter. The colour is a warm chocolate. It is only suitable for indoor work, and 

 even then only when little strength is required. It could be used for the interior decoration of 

 aeroplane taxi-cabs, owing to its lightness and rich red colour, and also for skirtings, mouldings, 

 sashes, and flooring. 



Description of the Tree. An average brush tree, with a slightly corky bark. Leaves 

 opposite, pinnate; leaflets usually five, rarely seven, ovate elliptical, or ovate lanceolate, 

 acuminate, obtusely and very shortly serrate, varying in length up to 9 inches, penni- 

 veined, venation well marked on the underside. Domatia present in the axils of the 

 primary veins. Flowers very small, very numerous, in compound panicles in terminal 

 pairs, becoming axillary by the elongation of the central shoot. Fruit a small capsule, 

 turgid, septicidally dehiscent. 



Geographical Range. Scrubs along North Coast Railway, Queensland, and south 

 to brush forests, Gosford, New South Wales. 



