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generally, close-grained, soft, and very easily worked. Shrinks very little, and is resistant to white ants. 
Used for verandah flooring, decking of vessels, joinery, cabinet-work, carving, and turnery. It stands 
exposure to the weather better than any of our soft timbers, excepting cypress pine (Callitris robusta ).— 
( Catal. Queensland Forestry Museum , 1904.) 
Habitat.— See vol. i, p. 188. 
Mr. District Forester T. H. Wilshire, in reporting it from Kangaroo Creek, 
30 miles from Grafton, says that a fair amount in log is shipped to Sydney. 
As regards Queensland, the following is quoted from the official catalogue 
just referred to :— 
This timber, being much prized, was extensively used in former years ; the quantity remaining now 
being limited. Occasional trees are, however, met with in some of our coastal scrubs, north and south, 
but generally in such places as are difticult of access. 
No. 32, Part IX. 
Ventilago viminalis , Hook. 
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THE SUPPLE JACK. 
(Natural Order Rhamnacea:.) 
Timber. —See vol. i, p. 192. 
Timber of this species cut by me at Coolabali was very hard. 
Habitat. —See vol. i, p. 193. 
I have never found this species so far south as the Lachlan. It seems to extend from Cobar 
northwards, but may be in the country south-west of Cobar, towards the Darling.—(R. H. Cambage.) 
North of this it is represented in the National Herbarium by such localities 
as Brewarrina (J. L. Boorman); Bourke (E. Betche); Coolabali (J.H.M.); Plains 
near Baradine (W. Forsyth). 
ILLUSTRATION. 
The photograph was taken near the Darling River, by Kerry k Co., Sydney. 
No. 33. Part IX. 
Rucalyptus melliodora 9 A. Cunn. 
THE YELLOW BOX. 
(Natural Order Myrtaceye.) 
Timber. —See vol. i, p. 196. 
Following are some additional northern opinions, or, rather, opinions on the 
timber as it is found in the north. 
Wood is very good for fencing material, but for saw-milling and building purposes it is, in my 
opinion inferior to E. hemipliloia, Grey Box.—-(W. Dunn, Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range.) 
Yellow Box, E. melliodora, a very hard and durable timber, but has not been used on account, no 
doubt, of the ditticulty of working it.—(Henry Deane, speaking of Glen Innes to Tenterfield trees.) 
