43 
No. 46. 
Callitris robusta, R.Br. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. robusta, R.Br. ex Mirb. in Mem. Mus. 
Par. xiii, 74 (1825). 
A tall pyramidal tree. 
Branclilets. —Slender and glaucous, the internodes terete or with very obtuse angles, the scales or 
teeth small and acute. 
Male amenta. —Solitary or in threes, 2 to 4 lines long. 
Fruit-cones. —Solitary or few together, nearly globular, and usually about 1 in. diameter, 
rarely either angled or furrowed; the valves 6, alternately about J shorter, strictly 
valvate, lustre dull, smooth, or occasionally one or two of the valves more or less verrucose 
and wrinkled on the back, without any dorsal point, except when the fruit is quite young. 
Central columella sometimes nearly as long as that of C. columellaris. 
Fertile seeds. —Usually 2-winged, the central columella often somewhat prominent; colour light 
brown. 
Botanical Name. — Robusta, Latin, in allusion to the sturdy growth of the 
species. 
Vernacular Name. —“ White or Common Pine.” It is often named after 
a locality, thus—“ Murrumbidgee or Lachlan Pine.” Other names will be alluded 
to later on. 
The “Mountain Cypress Pine” of Weddin, near Young, grows on hilly country, and as a rule is 
not of a very sound nature, having dry rot at the heart; used for saw-milling and fencing purposes. There 
is very little of this pine in the Grenfell district.—(District Forester A. Osborne.) 
There is a variety here (Parkes) known as “ Ridge Pine,” which may be either figured or plain, but 
is so called because it grows on the sides of hills. Sawyers will not take it if they detect it, as in many 
cases, though apparently sound at both ends, is pithy in the middle, and thus cuts up badly. Generally 
speaking, the best timber has a rather smooth bark. That with rough curly bark generally indicates a 
rough curly-grained timber.—(Forest Guard P. J. Iioldswortb.) 
Mr. Osborne’s “ Mountain Pine ” is C. robusta. Mr. Iioldswortb does not 
send specimens of bis “ Ridge Pine,” but it would appear to include robusta, and 
also the Red or Black Pine {calcarata), and it is perhaps a name given to inferior 
timber of both kinds. 
Aboriginal Names. —“ Backoowarrah ” of those of Ivanhoc, via Hay, 
N.S.W.—(K. H. Bennett). “ Carra” is the name in use by the Lachlan blacks in 
the thirties.—(Mitchell— Three Expeditions). Mr. Forester Kidston in 1894 gave 
me “ Gurrali” as the name used on the Lachlan (near Condobolin); it is evidently 
