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Sassafras grows about 140 to 180 feet high, no spurs, 8 to 9 feet girth, has a sweet scent; colour 
of timber, light yellow; durable for inside work, but never seasons; always shrinks and swells with 
weather ; rots very quickly outside, stumps very hard to kill; is not milled at present; fair mill timber.— 
(Robert Kaleski, Mountain Top, Dorrigo.) 
Habitat. —See vol. i, p. 44. 
I have seen it on brush table-land and gullies, somewhat stony, bordering upon New England, often 
rising to it from the Mann River, a tributary of the Upper Clarence, at an elevation of about between 
2,000 and 3,000 feet, where I found it in considerable quantity in places, many of the trees of large size 
up to and over 4 feet in diameter, and with tall, straight, cylindrical boles, and light branches standing 
out as so many of the pines.—(Augustus Rudder.) 
Grows anywhere in the Dorrigo on second-class land; no use fencing, Arc.; burns poorly, good chopper, 
rivals pine in being highest tree in scrub.—(Robert Kaleski.) 
No. 8 . Part II. 
A Istonia constrida , F. v. M. 
A “BITTER BARK.” 
(Natural Order Apocynaceai.) 
Bark. —See vol. i, p. 46. 
Alstonia constrida (Fever-bark), of Australia.—This has been woefully abused in the general drug 
market. Alstonia scholaris, which is utterly unlike the constrida, has been substituted in quantities, 
whilst we have seen mixtures of wild cherry bark, goa powder, and cinchona that had been powdered and 
sold under the name Alstonia constrida.—(Pharmaceutical Review, U.S.A., October, 1905, p. 298.) 
Exudation. —It exudes small quantities of a sticky sap. I do not know 
whether it has been put to any use in this State. The following refers to the closely 
allied A. scholaris and the Queensland aborigines :— 
The sticky exudation on the bark is employed for smearing over the body with which to affix the 
feather-down, for purposes of personal decoration. Tully River.—(North Queensland Ethnography, 
Bulletin No. 7, Dr. Roth.) 
Habitat. —See vol. i, p. 58. 
Have seen it growing in several places on the Clarence River, not far from Grafton.—(Augustus 
Rudder.) 
Acacia Creek, Macplierson Range.—(\V. Dunn and J. L. Boorman.) 
No. 9. Part III. 
Cedrela australis , F.v.M. 
THE RED CEDAR. 
(Natural Order Meliacea:.) 
Size. —See vol. i, p. 59. 
Grows in scrub from 100 to 140 feet high, generally with good straight, round barrel, free from 
branches about three-fourths of its length. Usually very sound when fallen ; must be chopped through 
spurs in the spring, or is liable to split when touching the ground.—(Robert Kaleski, Dorrigo.) 
