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Rays. Size 5-6 : many. 



Radial Section. Pores frequently with black drops. Rays 

 small, inconspicuous, dull-red flakes : soft-tissue like a fine 

 regular "machine-ruling or hatching." 



Tangential Section. As the radial : the soft-tissue makes 

 readily-visible and beautiful though inconspicuous zigzag tracery : 

 hoary in certain lights. 



Type specimens authenticated by R. F. Baker of the Sydney 

 Technological Museum and by F. M. Bailey, Government 

 Botanist of Queensland. 



No. 35. KOHE-KOHE. Dysoxylum spectabile. 



Hook. 



Natural Order. Meliacese. 



Alternative Name. Redheart (A.G.). 



Physical Characters, etc. Recorded dry-weight 36-39I lb. per 

 cu. ft. Hardness Grade 8, compare American White Pine. Taste 

 or smell none. Burns well without aroma, embers glow dully in 

 still air, ash light, white and filmy. Solution with water pink- 

 ish, deepens slightly upon the addition of potash, no ppt. ; ex- 

 tracted afterwards with alcohol the wood gives a brownish 

 solution which is intensified by potash and a dark red ppt. is 

 thrown down. 



Grain. Very fine. Surface lustrous especially in radial 

 section. 



Bark. Bright brown with awhitish or greyish, papery, friable 

 outer skin and many curious crater-like marks and longitudinal 

 wrinkles : not fissured : i to -^ inch thick : 1 layer only : 

 fibrous and laminated within. 



Uses, etc. Works like deal. Splits straight. "A substitute 

 for cedar. Cabinet-work, the domestic arts" (60). 



Authorities. Laslett (61), p. 412. The Agnet-General for 

 New Zealand (A.G.). 



Colour. Heart-wood of an uniform, rosy red, gradually 

 passing over into the brown sap-wood which is from 3 to 5 

 inches wide. 



Anatomical Characters. As those of D. Fraseranum, with 

 the following variations : — 



Pores. Less numerous, 4 to 10 per sq. mm., size 3 : usually 

 single. 



Rays. Closer and more numerous, 10-12 per mm., size 5-6 : 

 and rather prominent in tangential section. Little if any resin : 

 in vertical section the pores are visible but not prominent. 



Type specimen authenticated by the Forest Officer to the 

 Government of New Zealand. 



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