No. 86. 
Dysoxylon rufuin, Benth. 
The Bastard Pencil Cedar. 
(*Family MELIACEyE). 
Botanical description.— Genus, Dysoxylon (see Part XXIII, p. 27). 
Botanical description. — Species, D. rufum, Benth., in Flora Auslr alien sis, i, 382. 
A slender tree of 30 to 40 feet (it grows much larger, J.H.M.), the young branches, petioles, 
and the underside of the leaf clothed with a soft, often rust-coloured pubescence. 
Leaves. —It to 2 feet long, leaflets numerous, very shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 
acuminate, 3 to 6 inches long, very oblique at the base, glabrous on the upper side. 
Panicles. —Axillary or lateral, not much branched, pubescent. 
Flowers. —Sessile. 
Sepals. —5, almost free, orbicular, imbricate, about 1 line long. 
Petals. —5, pubescent, inch long, adhering to the staminal tube about the middle. 
Slaminal tube. —Truncate, with 10 retuse short lobes or teeth ; anthers tipped with a short point. 
Disc.— Broadly tubular, very hairy. 
Ovary.— Hirsute, 5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 
Fruit. —Depressed-globular, 1 inch diameter, densely hirsute, with short, rigid, almost golden 
hairs. 
Seeds. —Arillate. 
There is a var. (?) glabrescens , Benth. ( loc. cit.) —“ Leaves quite glabrous. 
Bruit tomentose, witli very short golden hairs, Rockhampton, Thozet,” which might 
be looked for on our northern rivers. 
Botanical Name. — Dysoxylon , already explained (see Part XXIII, p. 30) ; 
rufum, Latin, reddish, alluding to the rust-coloured hairs (pubescence). 
Vernacular Names. —The wood known to the colonists as “ Bastard Cedar- 
pencil wood.” (B.P1. i, 332.) 
Called “Bastard Pencil Cedar” on the Wollombi River—(late Augustus 
Rudder). Called “Deal” at Port Macquarie—(Forester G. R. Brown). No local 
name in Grafton district—(District Forester Wilshirc). 
Called “Stinkwood” at Tintenbar, Richmond River, because of the fetid 
odour of its timber. 
* Formerly Natural Order, the latter term, in this sense, having been abolished by the International Botanical 
Congress, Vienna, 1905. 
