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A modern use is as follows : 
A pale yellow-coloured, close grained timber, very durable and (for heads of golf-sticks) drives ball 
equal to Mararie. By some it is preferred to any other Australian or foreign timber. It closely resembles 
Yellow Tulip (Hemicylia australasica). R. T. Baker, in " Golf Illustrated," 28 July, 1903. 
Mr. Baker, in his " Hardwoods of Australia and Their Economics," has a coloured 
plate of the timber, and gives the weight at 56 Ib. per cubic foot. He describes the 
anatomical characters of the timber at page 41, gives microphotos and recommends 
it for carving and for screws. 
Size. It is a medium-sized tree. Following are some specific estimates and 
measurements. Sir William Macarthur gave the size for Illawarra trees many years 
ago as 50-80 feet, with a stem diameter of 18-30 inches. Mr. W. Baeuerlen gave the 
height as 60-80 feet, diameter 18-22 inches, Jasper's Brush, Broughton Creek, Illa- 
warra, N.S.W. Mr. Forest Guard W. Dunn gave the height of Macpherson Range 
trees as 30-40 feet. 
Habitat. It occurs native from Tasmania (on the Arthur River, one tree only 
found, according to Rodway, " Tasmanian Flora ") to Southern Queensland. In 
Victoria it is found in Gippsland, while in New South Wales it is found throughout its 
entire length, east of the Dividing Range, luxuriating in shady gullies at no great distance 
from the coast. This is, in fact, its favourite situation in most of the States. 
It is a native of Port Jackson, and of the Sydney district generally. It is an 
aboriginal inhabitant of the Botanic Gardens and Outer Domain, Sydney. At the 
same time, it has been so abundantly cultivated as an ornamental and sweet-scented 
plant in the Sydney district and in various parts of this and other States that it sometimes 
becomes a difficulty to say whether a certain plant is indigenous where it is collected. 
But in the true bush there is no difficulty. 
It is represented in the National Herbarium, Sydney, from the following 
localities : ( 
VICTORIA. 
Snowy River (Victoria and N.S.W.) (C. Walter). 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Southern Localities. Eden, on the fringe of Twofold Bay, adjacent to the bush 
(J. L. Boorman) ; Conjola (W. Heron, 38) ; Berry Mountain (J.H.M.). These are coastal 
localities, and we pass on to the Crashes near Sydney. Following are southern table- 
land localities further removed from the coast : Queanbeyan (E. Breakwell) ; Sugar Loaf 
Mountain, near Braidwood (W. Baeuerlen) ; Shoalhaven River, at Wingello (A. Murphy). 
Northern Localities. Gloucester Buckets (J.H.M.); Murrurundi (J.H.M. and 
J. L. Boorman). 30-40 feet, but attaining a height of 70 feet, Barraba (A. L. Kefford). 
Tree of 18 feet, growing in the bed of Horse Arm Creek, Ph. Billyena, County 
Nandewar, Pilliga (E. H. F. Swain, No. 36). 
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