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Flindersia Oxley ana, F.v.M. 
The Yellow-wood. 
(Natural Order MELIACEaE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Flindersia (see p. 209, Part X). 
Botanical description. —Species, F. Oxleyana, P. Muell., Fragm. i, 05 ; in, 25. 
A tall, much-branched tree,* attaining often 100 feet. 
Leaves. —Opposite, crowded under the panicles; leaflets 4 to 10, with or without a terminal odd 
one, broadly lanceolate, obtuse, or shortly acuminate ; 2 to 4 inches long, oblique, and almost 
falcate, narrowed into a distinct petiolule, glabrous, or sprinkled underneath with minute 
stellate hairs, thinly coriaceous, rather sparingly glandular-dotted. (See notes below.) 
Panicles. —Loose, and many-flowered, but shorter than the leaves. 
Sepals .—Very small. 
Petals .—About two lines long, obovate-oblong, glabrous or nearly so. 
Fruit. —Woody, 3 to 4 inches long, muricate. 
Seeds .—Winged at both ends.—(B.F1. i, 389). 
Botanical Name. — Flindersia, already explained, p 210, Part X. Oxley ana, 
in honour of John Oxley, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, who, with Messrs. 
Uniacke and Lieutenant Stirling, discovered the Brisbane River (the locality where 
this species was first found) in the year 1823. 
Vernacular Names. —“ Yellow-wood,” or perhaps “ Light or Pale 
Yellow-wood,” is its commonest name. Originally it was described under the name 
Oxley a xanthoxyla, and Hooker says ( Bot. Miscell., i, 217), “The remarkable 
yellow colour of the wood has suggested the specific name” ( xanthoxyla being com¬ 
pounded of two Greek words signifying yellow wood). 
“ Long Jack” is a name frequently used in northern New South Wales for 
this tree, in reference to its great height. 
* This applies to a siugle tree grown in a garden or on the edge of brushes, but is unfortunate as a description of its 
usual appearance in dense brushes. There it characteristically has a very long barrel, with neither spurs nor buttresses, 
and with no brauches until a few feet of the top of the tree,—usually a conical leafy top.—J.H.M. 
