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Timher. — It is a pale-coloured fissile, easily-worked timber, with little 

 figure 01- colour, and but slightly aromatic. It is said to be white-ant resist- 

 ing. It is iised for indoor purposes, for weatherboards, deals, battens, 

 and other small scantlings. It is light and useful, and was much used for 

 shingles in the early days. 



Size. — Up, to a height of 40 or 60 feet, with a trunk diameter of 1 to 2 

 f cot, in the Ellenborough Falls country. A tree was measured with a girth 

 of 12 feet 3 inches (3 feet from the ground). Growing 1,800 to 2,000 feet 

 above sea-level on Bulga Mountain, head of Ellenborough River. " It was a 

 splendid tree, 150 feet high, and full of vigour."— (G. S. Hill, Bunigay. 

 VVingliaiTi, 27th November, 1906.) Mr. Plardiman says that in the Com- 

 boyne it grows to an average height of 30 feet, and a diameter of 2 feet. 



Habitat. — Eastern Australia from the Stroud district, New South Wales, 

 to Northern Queensland. I have received it from near Cairns from Mr. S. 

 Dixon. It is found quite close to the coast and westerly to the coast range. 



Callitris verrucosa, R.Br. 



Botanical Name. — Verrucosa, Latin, "full of warts,'' referring to the 

 tubercles or swellings at the back of the fruitg. 



Vernacular Name. — " Mallee Pine " is a name given to it in western 

 New South Wales. 



Fruit. — The tubercles on the backs of the valves are a characteristic which 

 renders this species easy of determination. These tubercles vary in size a 

 good deal. In some fruits they are few ; in others as crowded as it is possible 

 for them to be. 



I might mention a peculiarity of tliis pine is tliat tlie cones are borne in^ 

 thick clusters for the most part directly on the larger limbs instead of towards 

 Ihe end of smaller branches as in the common (White) pine. (R. O. Moore, 

 C'oan Downs). 



The same observation as to fruiting on'old wood has been made by Mr. 

 . Boorman in regard to this species. 



Tirnber. — This species is too small for timber. I have a note that a 

 sample of " Kock Pine " from the Daubeney Ranges, where the trees are 

 20-25 feet high, and 6-12 inches in diameter, is a splendid working timber, 

 close-grained, and very showy. I have not seen twigs for many years, and 

 perhaps a reader may forward me cones to see if the " Rock Pine " be 

 identical with the " Mallee Pine " or no. 



Size. — A shrub 10 to 12 feet high, with spreading horizontal branches 

 resembling a Cypress. — (J. I)ufF.) 



Small stunted pine, similar in growth to mallee, growing among mallee on 

 B.ygo Run, 10 feet high, spreading. (Forester Taylor, Wagga Wagga.) 



Its manner of growth appears to be much after the style of Whipstick Mallee, 

 ■I.e., it has practically no trunk, the branches all springing from a bole or 

 stump close to the ground, and being of a decidedly spreading nature. (Mr. 

 ■JJ. O. Moore, Coan Downs, Mount Hope.) 



Size (and Habitat) . — 



This tree differs somewhat from a Mallee {Eucalyptus) in its form of growth, 

 {[s it usvially has a trunk, though at times only a few inches in length, and 

 seldom more than 6 Inches. Often it begins to spread level with the surface 

 of the ground, but it always had the appearance of branching rather tlian 

 sending up separate stems like a Mallee. 



