comparatively scarce. I believe that Orites excelsa will prove in every respect an efficient substitute for it, 
an I tlu- quantity of mature timber available in the Dorrigo at the present time will p:obably be sufficient 
for the Co'ony's nee Is for many years to come, without making any allowance for the natural repioduction 
of the plant." 
Almost an unlimited supply in Mt. Koyal and Carrow Forest Reserve. Loyally known as Coopers' 
Oak. (Singleton District). 
Sit table for tallow-casks, as Oregon and other timbers turn the tallow black. Useful for railway 
car-lining, housework, years in use. (Bolivia). 
Li e other Silky Oaks, it does not last w.ll in the ground, but it is invaluable as a furniture wood. 
Si /C. It is a large tree, one of few of the Proteaceae which attain the magnitude 
of first-class trees. It has been recorded as 100-120 feet on the Dorrigo. Upper 
Gloucester 70-80 feet high, 14-15 inches in diameter (Rudder). 
II ;J I) i tat. The type came from near the source of the River Hastings, New 
South Wales, and it was collected by Charles Fraser in 1818. This was on Oxley's 
2nd Expedition ; see " Journal of two Expeditions, &c." At page 314, when on the Upper 
Hastings, he says. " The valleys and hills are astonishingly rich in timber of various 
kinds, many new, and their botanic supplies were inexhaustible. Indeed, our 
cargo now principally consists of plants." 
The localities given in the Flora Australiensis are : 
1. Deep shaded forests at the sources of the Hastings River, A. Cunningham 
(Robert Brown attributes the plant to Fraser). 
2. Macquarie River, Fraser. (The Macquarie is an impossible locality, being an 
interior river. Port Macquarie is doubtless meant, which is at the mouth of the Hastings 
River.) 
3. Tweed, Richmond and Clarence Rivers, C. Moore. 
It is in the Sydney Herbarium from the following localities : 
Stroud district; also Upper Gloucester River (A. Rudder). 
" Piri Brush " (Leichhardt). The clue to this is another label of Leichhardt on 
a specimen of Polyostna Cunninghamii, which reads, " Brushes of Piri, Mt. Royal, 
Coora Creek, January 29th, 1843." This is doubtless Upper Hunter. Under Polyosma 
Cunninghamii, page 13, Part LI of the present work, I stated that I did not know 
where " Brush of Piri " was. 
Hastings River (G. R. Brown) ; Dorrigo (J.H.M.) ; Surface Hill, via Tenterfield 
(Armstrong Bros, and Rand); Mullumbimby, Brunswick River and Tintenbar (W. 
Baeuerlen); Acacia Creek and Macpherson Range generally (W. Dunn). 
It extends, therefore, from the Hunter River district to southern Queensland. 
In the latter State Mr. F. M. Bailey gives it from Mount Mistake. I have found it on 
the Macpherson Range within Queensland territory. It is found in New South Wales on 
tablelands and mountain slopes at an elevation of 2,000-3,000 feet, in rich volcanic 
soil. 
