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I have a note that the timber has a " putrid smell when drying." (Port 
Macquarie.) 
The late Mr. Charles Moore, many years ago, reporting on it from brush forests 
on the Clarence, near Graf ton, says: "A remarkable and very handsome tree. 
Timber quite yellow when fresh." From the same district Forester T. H. Wilshire sent 
me some timber which, when fresh, was of a deep-yellow colour (tumeric coloured). 
The Cairns Sassafras (Daphnaridra aromatica), is described in a Queensland 
catalogue as producing occasional trees in tropical scrubs. A medium-sized tree, with 
rather smooth bark and stiff dark-green leaf, both of which have a strong fragrance. 
Wood of a light colour, not unlike pine. Employed for many of the purposes for which 
pine is used. 
Size. Especially in Queensland it often attains a height of 100 feet, and a 
diameter of 2 feet and more. 
Habitat. It is recorded in the " Flora Australiensis " from " Queensland, 
Moreton Bay (Fraser, W. Hill). 
New South Wales. Clarence, Richmond and Lansdowne Rivers (C. Moore)." 
The species belongs to the coastal brushes. The following localities of specimens 
in the National Herbarium, Sydney, bring the recorded localities as far south as the Upper 
Hunter River. We require further investigation as to its range. 
" In scrub at foot of Mount Woolooma, at Belltrees, Upper Hunter River." 
(Sid. W. Jackson.) 
Wingham (A. Rudder). " A loose-growing tree of 20-30 feet, sparsely branched, 
flowers pale yellow, and the inflorescence very brittle." Wingham, Manning River 
(J. L. Boorman). 
" Small trees of 8-15 feet growing in masses, in shade." South Brother, John's 
River (J. L. Boorman). 
Urunga, Bellinger River (A. H. Lawrence). " Sassafras " or " Yellow-Wood." 
Yellow- wood is hard to eradicate, as it springs up again from fragments of root which 
may be left in the soil. Banks of Bellinger River, Dorrigo, and Glenfernie Forest 
Reserves. Abundant. (J.H.M., 1893.) Dorrigo Scrubs (Sid W. Jackson). Satin- 
wood, Dorrigo (Forest Guard W. Lowe.) 
Tall tree of 80 feet, Richmond River, 1 865 (Charles Moore). Satin-wood, plentiful, 
fine straight trees from 40 to 50 feet to branches on Wilson's Creek high up to Lismore, 
about 1865 (Charles Moore.) Newrybar, Richmond River (W. Baeuerlen). Casino, 
Richmond River (D. McAulift'e). 
Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, Queensland border (W. Dunn), 
Queensland. Ennoggera, Brisbane (Dr. T. L. Bancroft). 
Tambourine Mountain (Dr. J. Shirley). 
