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Grangers." This was published in Paris in 1690, and passed through several 
editions. An English translation was published by the celebrated John Evelyn in 
1693. Sieberi, in honour of Franz Wilhelm Sieber. See Part XXXIV, p* 47. His 
Pis. Exa. Nov. Roll. No. 261 is the type of this species. 
Vernacular Name. Opossum Wood, but there seems no special appropriate- 
ness in the appellation, and I cannot learn how the tree first got its name. 
Flowers. It is very floriferous, and bears masses of pure white flowers, 
reminding one of such species of Ligustrum (Tree Privet) as L. lucidum. 
Bark. Has a corky bark, transversely corky. 
Timber. Three pieces of this timber were reported on as follows : 
(1) Light in weight, of a pale brown colour, no figure, easy to work ; much 
rent in drying. 
(2) It is very hard and heavy, but very short in the grain. It would be 
good for flooring boards ; while of a third it was said, the timber is heavy, and 
close-grained; of a yellowish shade, and it seems to be of good quality. (General 
Report, Sydney International Exhibition, 1879.) 
Size. It is a small and even moderately large tree. I have often seen it 
50-60 feet high (estimated), and with a trunk diameter of 2-3 feet (measured). 
Habitat. In the Flora Australiensis it is recorded only from New South 
Wales, Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 261. A. Cunningham and others ; southward to 
Illawarra, A. Cunningham ; and the dividing range towards the Yowaka, Leichhardt. 
Mr. Cambage informs me that the Yowaka River flows into the Pambula 
River. There is a range of mountains between Twofold Bay (in a flourishing 
condition in Leichhardt's time, because of the whaling station) and the Yowaka 
River. There is nothing improbable in this species being found in such a locality ; 
this is near the Victorian border, and search may even prove that it occurs in that 
State. 
Mueller in Fragm. iii, 166, has " Illawarra in altis montibus. Leichhardt" 
for this species. 
It occurs in coastal New South Wales from near the Victorian border (the 
southern limit is unknown) to Southern Queensland. Its westerly range is 
unknown, but it occurs (in gullies) in the highest parts of the Blue Mountains. 
It is represented from the following localities in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney : 
Conjola, near Milton (W. Heron) ; Cambewarra Mountain (W. Forsyth) ; 
Barrengarry Mountain (R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) ; Belmore Falls, Moss Vale 
(W. Forsyth) ; Robertson (J.H.M.) ; top of Bulli Pass (L. Stephenson) ; Mount 
