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When M. De Candolle changed the name into Lhysoxylon Forsteri, he 
united it with a specimen from the Clarence River, New South Wales. 
The drawing does not help much in clearing up the plant as a New 
South Wales species, because it is taken from the Pacific Island plant, and not 
from the Clarence River one. According to M. De Candolle, the Clarence 
River specimens are identical with Forster’s Namoka specimen; hut, as already 
indicated, Mueller seems to he of a different opinion. 
There the matter must rest for the present. 
2. Moore (Catalogue of Northern Timbers, N. S. Wales Court, London Exhibition, 
1862, No. xviii) exhibited a Dysoxylon timber under the name of Hartiyhsia sp. 
He says : “ £ Munduo’ of the blacks, Richmond and Clarence brush forests. Small 
sized tree. Timber not used.” 
As herbarium specimens of all the New South Wales timbers were sent 
to Europe, perhaps this “ Munduo ” can be traced. 
3. The New Zealand Dysoxylon is D. spectabile , and goes by the name of Koliekohe. 
Mr. Kirk has figured and given an account of it in the “ Forest Flora of New 
Zealand,” and to him I am indebted for the particulars which follow. He 
describes it as one of the most striking trees of that Colony; the wood is light, 
but usually straight and even in the grain, rather soft, strong, and fairly 
durable; it is of a pale red colour when seasoned. It is adapted to the purposes 
of the cabinet-maker, especially where heavy timbers are ineligible; although 
usually jilain and destitute of figure, waved and curled specimens of great 
beauty are frequently met with. Of late years it has come largely into demand 
for wire-fence posts in loose sand. In situations of this kind it is the most 
desirable of all New Zealand timbers, being greatly superior to Totara. The 
New Zealand timber would thus appear to present no important points of 
difference to our Rosewood; but our timber, though durable, is not, as far 
as I am aware, considered particularly suitable for posts, like the Koliekohe, 
perhaps because hardwoods are abundant with us. Mr. Kirk says the leaves 
are bitter and tonic, and that an infusion is occasionally used by bushmen as a 
stomachic. Numerous as are the tree leaves which have been put to this use 
in the belief that they possess properties similar to those just described, I have 
not heard of the leaves of a New South Wales Dysoxylon tree being deemed to 
possess medicinal properties. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 97. 
A. Flowering twig. 
b. Three flowers. j 
c. Vertical section of flowers. , 
d. Section of ovary. J 
e. Leaf, with a little more detail, drawn from a specimen collected by Dr. H. Beckler. 
Enlarged from 
Wilcox’s specimen. 
a—d drawn by Miss M. Smith, of the Kew Herbarium, under the direction of Dr. Otto Stapf ; 
E drawn by Miss Flockton. The whole plate lithographed by Miss Flockton. 
