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Not rare from Sealers’ Cove to east boundary of the colony, 
along rivers and glens. A splendid tree, with remarkably dark 
and shady foliage, attaining a height of 120 feet. Specific 
gravity of wood, 0-898 to 0’935. The bark yielded of tannic 
acid 16-9 per cent., and of gallic acid 3-6 per cent. Weight of 
dry wood per cubic foot, 5G to 58 lbs. ( Jurors’ Report, 1866.) 
109. Eupoxnatia lamina, R. Brown, 
Natural Order — Anonacece . 
Occurring only in the most eastern part of Gippsland, where 
the tree attains the height of 40 feet. (F. Mueller.) 
110. Exoearpus cupressiformis, LabiUardtire. 
NATIVE CHERRY-TREE. Natural Order— San- 
talacece. 
Widely distributed over the more fertile open ridges and 
through both barren and fertile forest ranges. A small or middle- 
sized tree. Wood suitable, from the closeness of its structure, to 
many of the purposes of the cabinetmakers and turners. It is 
soft, fine-grained timber, and the best for carving. (Lockhart 
Morton.) It is also used for tool-handles, spokes, gun-stocks, 
&c. (W. Archer, in Tasmanian Report , 1862.) Specific gravity 
of wood (Victorian specimen), 0*756 to 0*845. Weight of a 
cubic foot of dry wood, from 47 to 53 lbs. 
HI. Exocarpus spartea, R . Brown . 
In the desert country on the Murray River. Of weeping 
habit. 
112. Exocarpus stricta, R. Brown. 
Through the greater part of the colony. Bather of shrubby 
than arboreous growth. 
113. Fagus Cunninghami, Hooker. 
THE EVERGREEN BEECH, sometimes called 
NATIVE MYRTLE TREE. Natural Order— 
Cupulife rce. 
In the most secluded recesses of the mountains, from Dande- 
nong to Mount Baw-Baw, on the various remote sources of the 
