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Timber. The earliest published account of the tree is the following passage : 
" Marrai-uo " of the aborigines of the Illawarra and " Sallow " of the colonists. A tall-growing 
species (40-80 feet, with 12-24 inches diameter) with very long (sic) phyllodia, beautiful when young. 
It* wood much prized for axe helves, or other purposes requiring lightness combined with toughness and 
strength ; of considerable beauty in grain and colour (sic), and likely to be valuable to the cabinet maker and 
turner. (No. 59 of Sir William Macarthur's Woods in Cat. N.S.W. Exhibits, Paris Exh., 1855.) 
Mr. G. R. Brown, formerly of Port Macquarie,. informed me that the wood was 
employed for turnery, but I cannot ascertain that, as a general rule, the timber is much 
used except for fuel. 
Size. A tree of moderate size. I have seen it from 20 to 50 feet, but not such 
large ones as those recorded by Sir William Macarthur. Up to 30 feet or more it is 
usually very bushy. 
Habitat. In the Flora Atistraliensis (B.F1. ii, 398), the following localities 
are given : 
Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 440, and others, northward to New England, 
C. Stuart ; Clarence River, Beckkr ; and southward to Tambo River, Victoria, F. Mueller. 
Extended collecting shows that it occurs in Queensland, so that its range is from 
Gippsland, from end to end of New South Wales (coastal strip and tablelands) to 
southern Queensland. 
It has a partiality for creek and river banks. Some specific localities are as 
follows : 
VICTORIA. 
Snowy River, East Gippsland (C. Walter). 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
SoutJiern Localities. Eden to Pambula (J.H.M.); Mogo, Bateman's Bay (W. 
Baeuerlen) ; Argyle County, N.S.W. (probably Mitchell) ; Nattai River near Hill Top 
(E. Cheel); Nattai River, between Picton and Burragorang (J.H.M.); Braemar near 
Mittagong (J.H.M.); Bent's Basin, Nepean River (E. Cheel and J. L. Boorman); 
Leumeah, George's River, 8-12 inches diameter (J. L. Boorman). 
Sydney Localities. Penshurst, George's River (J.H.M.) ; Lane Cove (W. Forsyth) ; 
Hornsby, narrow, stunted shrubs, 4 feet high (W. Blakeley) ; Kogarah (J. H. Camfield) ; 
and Port Jackson and Greater Sydney generally. 
Western Localities. Banks of Nepean, near Penrith (J.H.M.) ; Grose River (J.H.M. 
and R. H. Cambage). 
Nortliem Localities. -Woy Woy. Has been in flower six weeks (19th September) 
and looks as bright as ever (A. Murphy); Stroud (Sydney Dodd); Bowman River 
(Jesse Gregson); Beechwood to Rollands Plains, Hastings River (J. L. Boorman); 
Port Macquarie (G. R. Brown); Kempsey (R. Helms); In thick scrub. Height 
30 feet, diameter 4 6 inches. ' The prettiest of the Bellinger Wattles, not plentiful." 
