WILLOW YELLOW-WOOD. $4$ 



4 6 in. S.G. 767. Light-coloured, very hard, close-grained. 

 Useful for turnery, (iv) Acacia salicina Lindl. (Order Legumndsce). 

 Height 3050 ft. ; diam. 1 U ft. S.G. 763. W 47'5. Dark 

 brown, prettily figured, heavy, close-grained, tough, taking a high 

 polish. Used for boomerangs and furniture. 



Wood oil tree. See Gurjun. 



Woolly-butt (i) (Eucalyptus longifdlia Link. : Order Myrkicece). 

 South-east Australia. Sometimes known as "Bastard Box." 

 Height 100150 ft.; diam. 36 ft. S.G. 1187. W 68-5. 

 Red, heavy, hard, straight and close in grain, strong and tough, 

 liable to gum-veins and shakes, durable, especially under ground. 

 When sound, much prized for the felloes and spokes of wheels ; 

 but on account of its gum-veins, more used as fuel. [See also 

 (ii) Gum, Apple scented, (iii) Mahogany, Bastard and (iv) 

 Gum, Manna.] 



Yacca (Podocdrpus coridcea Rich, and P. Purdiedna Hook : 

 Order Coniferce). Jamaica. Small, pale brown. W 38'6 46*9. 

 E 456 596 tons. /4'3 5-25. fc 2-49 2-55. /* '-346 -486. 



Yarrah (Eucalyptus rostrdta). See Gum, Red. 



Yate-tree (Eucalyptus cornuta Labill. : Order Myrtdcece). South- 

 west Australia. Height 100 ft. S.G. 1235. The heaviest West 

 Australian wood, hard, elastic, somewhat of the character of Ash. 

 Valued for shafts, boat-ribs and agricultural implements. 



Yellow-wood, a name applied in South Africa to various 

 species of Podocdrpus (Order Coniferce), and in Australia to four 

 or five woods in no way related to these or to one another. [See 

 also Fustic.] 



Yellow-WOOd, Bastard (Podocdrpus pruirwsusRM., or perhaps 

 also P. elongdta L'Herit. and P. Thunbe'rgii Hook.). P.pruiruteus, a 

 native of Natal, is a tree of considerable size, yielding a pale- 

 yellow, tough and durable wood, much used for building. [See 

 Yellow wood, Natal, and Yellow wood, Real] 



Yellow-wood, Dark or Deep (Rluis rhodanthema F. v. M. : 

 Order AnacardiAcea). North-east Australia. Known also as 

 "Yellow Cedar" or inappropriately as "Light Yellow-wood." 

 Ahurig. " Jango-jango." Height 6080 ft.; diam. 1J 2 ft. 



