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Mueller stated the hark of this tree yields material which can he worked up 
into the coarser kinds of paper. Many other species of Acacia yield a hark similar 
in this respect, hut it is poor paper material. 
Timber. —This wood does not appear to have come into general use; hut an 
expert in the Bombala district considers it excellent, being very durable and very 
tough, on which account he prefers it to anything else for axe and tool handles. It 
is said that the timber can almost be bent double upon itself. Trees obtained from 
high, stony ridges are usually sound, and not attacked by grubs. The above remarks 
apply to those grown in such a situation. 
Timber examined by me was flesh-coloured, very little sap-wood, and a good, 
tough timber. Nevertheless, it is inferior to other timbers abundantly available in 
the places in which it grows. 
Exudations. —Lauterer* gives an analysis. 
Size. —The typical form is usually a shrub or small tree. The variety 
falciformis , on the eastern mountain slope and ranges, attains a good height (20 to 
40 feet), with a diameter up to 18 inches. Trees a foot in diameter are common. 
It is found a good size along the strip of forest land fringing the plains of the 
Monaro. The largest trees appear to occur in the mountain ranges, near Delegate, 
which form the southern boundary of the Monaro, where, for instance, near 
Brown’s Camp (the locality from which I first obtained the samples which enabled 
me to draw attention to the extraordinary value of this hark), the trees attain a 
height of from 40 feet to 80 feet, and a diameter up to feet, Avhile trees of a 
diameter of 18 inches to 24 inches are not scarce in the localitv. 
Habitat. —Following are the localities given in the “Flora Australiensis” :— 
Queensland. 
Brisbane Biver, Moreton Bay (Fraser, F. Mueller) ; sandstone ridges, near 
Mount Pluto (Mitchell). 
New South Wales. 
Blue Mountains (Sieber n. 458 and others), and inland to the Macquarie 
(A. Cunningham, Fraser) ; northward to Hastings River (Beckler) ; and southward 
to Twofold Bay (F. Mueller). 
Victoria. 
Granitic ranges and mountains on the Broken, Ovens, and Snowy Rivers 
(F. Mueller). 
Tasmania. 
Brown’s Road, Mount Wellington (Oldfield). 
* “ Gums and Resins exuded by Queensland Plants chemically and technologically described.”—(From pages 
35 to 80 of F. M, Railey’s Botany Bulletin No. xiii [April, 1896], “ Contributions to the Queensland Flora ”) 
