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Tarrietia actinopkylla Bailey. 
-' ' A Stavewood or Ironwood. ; 
(Family STERCULIACE^.) 
Botanical description. Genus Tarrietia, see Part LXVII, p. 323. 
Botanical description. Species actinophylla Bailey, Queensla-nd Flora, i, 141 (1899). 
Following is the original description : 
A large tree, the young growth and inflorescence more or less covered with scurfy tomentuin, 
otherwise glabrous. 
Petioles 3 to 9 inches long, often curved upward at the end, and bearing from three to nine radiating 
oblong-lanceolate leaflets 3 to 9 inches long, including the often rather elongated petiolule. 
Ftowers in loose, broad panicles, 6 to 15 inches long. 
Calyx densely tomentose; deeply lobed, campanulate, expanding to about 3 lines.' 
Carpels 1 to 2 inches long, including the wing, which is from J inch to 1 inch broad. 
Botanical Name. Tarrietia, already explained (see Part LXVII, p. 344; 
actinophylla, from two Greek words signifying a ray and a leaf, in allusion to the leaves 
spreading out like rays of light. 
Vernacular Names. " Stavewood," for obvious reasons; "Ironwood" 
because of its hardness; " Black Jack," from the dark appearance of the trunk. 
Aboriginal Name. "Byong" and "Boyung" are forms of the same 
aboriginal name, which has been made a vernacular, e.g., as " Red Boyung." 
Synonym. Tarrietia Carroni C. Moore in General Report, Sydney Inter- 
national exhibition, 1879, where it is named "Stavewood " and " Red Boyung," and 
its height and diameter are quoted at 100-150 feet, and 2-4 feet respectively. 
Leaves. Reference to the spreading appearance of the leaflets has been 
already made. In the present species the leaflets are usually seven to nine, in 
T. argyrodendron usually three. 
Fruit. The fruits are larger than those of T. argyrodendron, and the wings 
less bright in colour. 
Timber. A tall tree. Wood very tough, of a stringy, straight grain, 
resembling English Ash; will bend better than thut wood, which points it out as a 
suitable \\ood for chair-making, carriage work, axe-handles, &c. (F. M. Bailey). 
