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Bark. —Tills is friable-fibrous or stringy, different in texture to that of any 
of the other species, which are hard and more or less furrowed. When young, 
before it becomes properly fibrous, it is almost silky in appearance and to the touch. 
Timber. —It is a pale-colourec] fissile, easily worked timber, with little figure 
or colour, and but slightly aromatic. It is said to be white-ant resisting. It is used 
for indoor purposes, for weatherboards, deals, battens, and other small scantlings. 
It is light and useful, and was much used for shingles in the early days. 
Size.—Up to a height of 40 or 60 feet, with a trunk diameter of 1 to 2 feet, 
in the Ellenborough Palis country. Mr. Hardiman says that in the Comboyne it 
grows to an average height of 30 feet, and a diameter of 2 feet. 
Habitat. —Eastern Australia from the Stroud district, New South Wales, 
to northern Queensland. I have received it from near Cairns from Mr. S. Dixon. 
It is found quite close to the coast and westerly to the coast range. 
Eollowing are some specific localities in New South Wales, near Stroud :— 
“ Eorest Deserve 33,036, parish of Yanatt, near the Comboyne, and was growing 
in rough, rocky, mountainous country. The timber is very scarce.”—(Eorester 
Hardiman, Taree.) “ Dough country near the Ellenborough Falls.”—(J. H. M. 
and J. L. Boorman.) “ Near Coopernook.”—(J. C. Langley.) “ Port Macquarie.” 
“ Dorrigo, fairly plentiful on the Little Murray Diver.”—(District Eorester 
T. H. Wilsliire.) “Grows only in one spot in my district, and that to a limited 
extent only. It is found on a clay ridge near Alstonville, Dichmond Diver, 
immediately on the edge of basaltic country.”—(District Eorester Pope, Casino.) 
