TO PRINCIPAL TIMBER TREES, ETC. 
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Acacia Cavenia, Hooker and Arnott. 
The Espino of the present inhabitants of Chili, the Cavan of 
the former population. A small tree with exceedingly hard wood, 
resisting underground moisture. The plant is well adapted for 
hedges. The pods, called Quirinca, serve as cattle food 
(Dr. Philippi). 
Acacia falcata, Willdenow. 
East Australia. One of the best of trees for raising a woody 
vegetation on drift-sand, as particularly proved at the Cape 
of Good Hope. Other species serve the same purpose, for 
instance — A. pycnantha, A, saligna, A. cyanophylla, A. salicina. 
Acacia fasciculifera, F. v. Mueller. 
South Queensland. Desirable for culture on account of the 
excellence of its easily worked wood. 
Acacia glaucescens, Willdenow. 
Queensland and New South Wales. Extreme height, about 60 
feet. A kind of Myall, with hard dark prettily grained but less 
scented wood. 
Acacia harpopRylla, F. v. Mueller. 
Southern Queensland, where this tree, according to Mr. Thozet, 
furnishes a considerable share of the mercantile wattle-bark for 
tanning purposes. Wood, according to Mr. O’Shanesy, brown, 
hard, heavy and elastic, used by the natives for spears. 
Acacia horrida, Willdenow. 
The Doornboom or Karra-Doorn of South Africa. A formidable 
hedge bush with thorns three inches long, readily available for 
impenetrable hedge copses. It exudes also a good kind of gum. 
So A. Gir affix (Burchell). 
Acacia lophantha, Willdenow. 
South West Australia. One of the most rapidly growing trees 
for copses and first temporary shelter in exposed localities, but 
never attaining to the size of a real tree. It produces seeds 
abundantly, which germinate most easily. For the most desolate 
places, especially in desert tracts, it is of great importance to 
create quickly shade, shelter and copious vegetation. Cattle 
browse on the leaves. The bark contains only about 8 per cent, 
mimosa-tannin ; but Mr. Rummel found in the dry root about 
10 per cent, of saponin, valuable in silk and wool factories. 
Acacia pendula, All. Cunningham. 
New South Wales and Queensland. Generally in marshy tracts 
of the interior. One of the Myall trees. 
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