Mr. F. M. Bailey has described and figured a variety parvifolia (of Weinmannia) 
in Queensland Agricultural Journal, xxviii, 196, from the Macpherson Range, the 
leaflets seldom exceeding 1|- inches long and 5 lines broad. 
Tha critical points of the species may be enumerated as -.Leaves in 3's or 5's 
(digitate); Stamens about 20; Petals, none; Calyx lobes 4-6; Stipitks, none; 
Floral bracts, none. 
As regards Weinmannia and Geissois it comes nearer to the latter, and I constitute 
it a species of that genus. The alternative, it scorns to mo, is to constitute a new 
genus to receive it. Comparison with the characters of Weinmannia, sec p. 207, 
Part Iviii, shows that it is sufficiently distinct from that genus. 
Botanidal Name. Geissois, see Part 58, p. 207; lachnocarpa, from two 
Greek words, lachnos, woolly, carpa, fruit, for obvious reasons. 
Vernacular Name. It is known sometimes as " Red Carabeen," a name 
which it shares with Geissois Benthami (See Part Iviii). 
Sometimes called " Brush " or " Scrub-Redwood " because of its colour, 
and in reference to the fact that it is a brush timber. (Brush is the New South Wales 
equivalent for the Indian word Jungle.) The word Brush is chiefly used in New South 
Wales ; Scrub is its equivalent in Queensland. Mr. F. M. Bailey says it is also known 
as li Scrub Rosewood " jn Queensland. 
Aboriginal NaillC. " Marara " is the aboriginal name, but it seems to have 
got a sufficient hold upon bushmon to be often adopted by them. It must nob be 
confused with " Mararic " the equivalent of Arytera distylis Radlk., (Nephelium 
distyle F.v.M.) a Sapindaceous tree. Mr. Bailey says that the name " Merrany " is 
also in use in South Queensland. 
SyilOliyill. Weinmannia lachnocarpa (F.v.M.) 
Timber. Timber red, drying to a dirty pink, of the usual character of 
Cunoniaccous and Saxifrageous timbers, that is to say, with little figure, moderately 
hard, easy to work, and a generally useful timber, but probably without very 
conspicuous characteristics. 
" Wood light pink, close in the grain ; might be used for making planes, mallets, 
and chisel handles." (F. M. Bailey in Cat. Queensland Woods, Col. and Ind. Exh., 1886.) 
A large tree, with scaly bark; the wood of light-brown (sic) colour, close- 
grained, and rather hard, excellent for mallets and chisel handles, and is often used 
for resoling English planes when worn down, and sometimes for staves of casks. (Cat. 
Queensland Forestry Museum, 1904). 
Mr. C. W. Chapman of Melbourne, some years ago informed mo that wherever 
there is a shake in Marara timber there is always a little " Yellow Gum " ( ? calcareous 
deposit, sec p. 146, Part Ivii). It is being experimented upon for golf-sticks. 
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