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no doubt that Mr. Moore in some way confused the Teak (F. australis) with the tree 
known as “ Cudgerie,” and which was afterwards described by Mueller under the 
name of F. Schottiana. 
Leaves. —Attention is specially invited to the amended description of the 
leaves already given. The drawing of F. australis leaves in Flinders' Voyage is an 
admirable one. 
Fruit . —The natives of the Moluccas use the rough tuberculated fruits* as 
rasps for preparing roots, &c., for food ( Treasury of Botany). The species referred 
to is F. amboinensis , Poir. It is very possible the aborigines have put the fruits of 
F. australis (known as Rasp-pod) to a similar purpose. They very probably ate the 
seeds of this and other Flindersias, but I cannot find any record of their having 
done so. 
The overlapping part of the fruit-valves of F. australis, is muricate or rough 
in this species and smooth in all others, and is a useful diagnostic character. 
Bark. —The bark is an important character, and serves to distinguish it from 
the other Flindersias with which it might be confused. It is dark brown and rough 
scaly, all the other species with which I am acquainted having a smooth bark. 
Timber. —Of the first rank, one of the best, indeed, that New South Wales 
produces. Not only is it extensively used in this State, but it is largely exported to 
Germany. It is close-grained, heavy, difficult to work, and cracks somewhat unless 
carefully dried. The colour is yellowish-brown, and it has no figure. It is so hard 
that it will break the axe in chopping unless great care be exercised. While it is 
very strong, it has a somewhat short fibre, like beech, hence it cannot be used for 
wine casks, a use which was proposed. 
It is a splendid building timber. At first sight when qut into boards it is 
scarcely distinguishable from Hoop Pine ( Araucaria Cunninghamii ). It is cut in 
large quantities, especially for flooring boards, and defies the white ants for a long time. 
It is excellent for outside walls, where it will last forty or fifty years. It is the 
best timber for slabbing a well, as it does not turn the colour of the water like any of 
the other timbers. It is durable in or out of the ground. Teak is superior to iron- 
bark for some purposes. It is used for gearing wheels, and it does not splinter in 
the pressure of one tooth against another. It is considered to be the best all-round 
firewood on the Richmond, only excelled by “ pine-knots.” As firewood it can be 
used quite green, and if a freshly-felled log be set fire to it will burn clean away. 
It is more inflammable when green than when dry. 
Exudations. —The exudation is a true gum. The.greater portion is soluble 
in cold water, little more on boiling, but the remainder is directly soluble in a very 
dilute soda solution. It consists of arabin with metarabin. 
•Robert Brown (Collected Works, Ray Soc. i, 72) rightly imagined that the Arbor Radtdifrra of the Herbarium 
amboinense (3, p. 201, t. 129) is Flindersia. In Rumphius’ Work it is called “Caju Baroedan or De Rasp-Boom.” It is 
F. amboinensis, Poir. See “ Boomsoorten van Java,” Koorders and Valeton, Bijdr.No. 3, p. 5. 
