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the Natural ancl Industrial Products of N.S.W. for the Paris Exhibition. Sydney, 
Nov., 1S51). Collected by Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Macartliur:— 
No. 238. Rosewood, diameter 36-72 inches, height 80-120 feet. A beautiful tree, producing 
the finest timber, both durable and ornamental. It possesses an agreeable fragrance, the effect of an 
essential oil. Bedsteads of this wood never harbour insects. 
Although this purports to he a list of “ southern ” timbers, we have a foot¬ 
note—“ Rosewood, name at Brisbane Water, Hunter River, &c.” 
This description can only refer to one tree—the well-known Rosewood of 
eastern New South Wales. 
There is a specimen in Eraser’s handwriting in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney (received from the Herbarium of the University of Oxford), labelled “ A 
secondary tree, flowers white, native of the banks of the Hastings.” It is a co-type 
of D. Fraseranum. 
Mr. W. B. Hemsley, in a letter to me (quoted below), says :— 
“ Besides Fraser’s specimen, we have ‘ Sydney Woods, Paris Exhibition, 238. W. Macarthur, 1854, 
80-120 feet. Red. Cabinets made of the [wood]. Sawdust blisters the skin.’ This is probably the same 
species, as also R. Brown’s 5,227, distributed as D. Lessertianum.” 
Mueller (Pragm. ix, Gl) makes the following statement:—• 
Dysoxylon Lessertianum ad flumen Paterson’s River altitudinem 60' attinet, monente Carron. 
Foliola saturate viridia. Hanc aut similem speciem in tractu Blue Mountains reperit L. Calvert. 
Dysoxylon Fraseranum ad flumen Richmond River (Maria Hodgkinson). 
As regards Queensland, Mr. E. M. Bailey has recorded the species (Queens¬ 
land Flora, i, 230) as “Southern Ranges”; but, in reply to a letter from me, he 
states that he has not seen an authentic specimen of D. Fi aseranum. 
Anxious to learn more of the true D. Fraseranum , I wrote the Director of 
Kcw as follows :— 
In Hemsley’s “Flora of Lord Howe Island” ( Annals oj Botany, x, 234), it is stated that Dysoxylon 
Fraseranum is found in N.S.W. and Queensland. If there are any specimens at Kew, I shall be glad 
to be informed on what authority that statement has been made. I want to get definite N.S.W. 
and Queensland localities for the species, which I have never found on the mainland.* I do not say 
it is not there. I shall be glad if specimens of the species from any mainland localities can be spared. 
(10th July, 1906.) 
To which I obtained the following reply, which I quote, only omitting a 
passage already quoted :— 
Your question whether Dysoxylon Fraseranum is found in N. S. Wales puzzles me, because 
you record it in your own books, and it was described from specimens collected by C. Fraser, on the 
Hastings River, according to a labelled specimen in the Kew Herbarium. Aft/r a more critical examina¬ 
tion of Fraser’s plant, and the material we have from Lord Howe Island, I am of opinion that they are 
different species, but I have not completed my analyses.—(W. B. Hemsley, 16th August, 1906.) 
•At this time I endeavoured to believe that Bentham and Mueller were correct in keeping D. Fraseranum and 
T>. Lessertianum distinct. I looked upon the latter species as the common Rosewood, and I thought that since the Lord 
Howe Island tree was reputed to be D. Fraseranum, it was possible that the species might be confined to the island and 
that there might be some mistake in regard to the reputed mainland localities. 
