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A full account of this timber, chiefly from the point of view of the railway 
carriage-builder, will he found in MacMahon’s “ Queensland Merchantable Timbers,” 
p. 53. Here it is stated that:— 
“ It is largely used in the framing of carriages and waggons. It holds paint well and nails may be 
driven into it without splitting, close up to the end of the scantling. In the works of the Brisbane 
Tramways Company this timber is a prime favourite; it is used for body-framing, pillars, and finishing; it 
is found to answer remarkably well for portions of the structure of a tram-car, which it is necessary to 
bend by steam, and has, in fact, supplanted entirely the more expensive blackwood for this purpose. For 
an entirely all-round timber it cannot be spoken of too highly, and quite fills the place of English and 
American ash. A departmental board of the Commonwealth Military Forces has recently decided that 
this is the most suitable wood in Australia for ammunition boxes.” 
Size.— 
Height often up to 100 feet, with a diameter of, approximately, 2 feet.—(District Forester Pope, 
Casino.) 
Height 80 to 100 feet, with a barrel of 4 to 8 feet in diameter in Macpherson Range.—(J. L. 
Boorman.) 
It is indeed a large tree, variable in diameter. 
Habitat. —This tree is confined to the rich brush forests of northern New 
South Wales and Queensland. What its precise southern and northern limits are 
I do not know, and inquiries such as these are the legitimate and even necessary 
duty of a Botanical or Forest Survey. 
I have specimens in the National Herbarium from the Richmond and Tweed 
Rivers, New South Wales, and also one labelled “Stroud district” from the late 
Mr. Augustus Rudder, but I probably misunderstood him as regards the locality. 
As regards Queensland, its range appears to he hardly better known than at the 
time of its discovery seventy-seven years ago. 
Concerning New South Wales, Mr. District Forester Pope, of Casino, reports:— 
It grows in most of the brush forests in this district, but appears to be favourable to red soil. 
There is a considerable quantity of it along the Tenterfield Road on Forest Reserves 2,425 and 1,120. It 
is fairly abundant in all the brushes of the Tweed and Richmond Rivers,—evenly distributed. Does not 
attain such a size on Forest Reserves 2,425 and 1,120 as in other localities. 
Mr. Forest Guard W. Dunn, of Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, reports:— 
This is the scarcest Flindersia here. It is very careful in selecting its habitation. My opinion is, 
it favours brush mountain regions with plenty of shelter. 
Turning to Queensland, Hooker wrote in 1830, on C. Fraser’s notes of his 
trip in 1828:— 
The south side of the Brisbane, as far as Canoe Creek, is covered with forests of pine, or Araucaria, 
to a considerable extent. The north bank, as far as Glenmoriston’s Range, is principally open forest, not 
reaching far, beyond which it is clothed with pine brushes, as on the south. These forests contain 
immense quantities of Yellow-wood ( Oxley a xanthoxyla) ( Botanical Miscellany, Yol. i, p. 246). 
The Official Guide of the Museum of the Forest Department, Queensland, 
published in 1904, says :— 
Trees do not exist in groups, but odd trees are found at frequent intervals in most of the coastal 
scrubs of Southern Queensland, and especially in the Nanango district. 
