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The following particulars refer to trees accurately determined :— 
“Known as ‘Yellow Pine’ at Wyong. Used for lining or flooring-hoards 
and inside work generally, also for battens for fixing galvanized iron. Neither warps 
nor shrinks. This and Beech (Gmelina Leiclihardtii, see Part IX) were down as 
flooring-hoards for twenty years, were perfectly sound, and re-laid. Does not grow 
above 2 feet diameter. Has no sap.”—(G. Goldsmith, Wyong.) 
A specimen of Laurel or Beech from Cambewarra, N.S.W., is of a dirty white 
colour, and shows no figure. It is a fairly good working timber, and is used locally 
for staves and butter-kegs, and also for wheelwrights’ work. Dresses up to a nice 
smooth surface. Its height is 70 feet, with a diameter of 3 feet. 
Some “ She Beech ” from the Nambucca Biver, N.S.W., which I take to be 
of this species, is easy to work, of a light colour, and a silky nature ; would he useful 
for flooring-boards and inside house-carpentry, and probably it is adapted for 
furniture framework. 
Size. —Its size has been already referred to. It is a large brush tree. 
Habitat. —Poliowing are the localities given in the “Plora Australiensis”:—• 
Queensland. —Rockingham Bay, D all achy; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Brisbane River, 
Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham , F. Mueller , and others. 
N. S. Wales. —Hawkesbury, R. Bxown ; Hastings River, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart ; Port 
Jackson, Woolfs; 11 la war ra, A. Cunningham, and others. Sydney Woods, Paris Exhibition, 1855, 
Macarthur , n. 6 and 30; Northern woods, n. 4, and Southern woods, n. 115, London Exhibition, 1862, 
C. Moore. 
The tree is confined to eastern New South Wales and Queensland. I have it 
from Conjoin, near Milton, which brings the range as given in the “ Plora 
Australiensis ” a little further south. Mueller ( Census ) gives it Northern Australia, 
but perhaps he takes the species in the wide and provisional sense employed by 
Bentham. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 104. 
A. Flowering twig, 
n. Young flower. 
c. Flower opened out, showing— 
(a) Calyx, 
( h ) Stamens, outer row. 
(c) „ inner row. 
( d ) Staminodia, outer row. 
( e ) „ inner row. 
(f) Stigma. 
d. Pistil. 
E. Anthers, back and front views. 
F. Staminode, outer row. 
G. „ inner row. 
ii. Fruits (fruiting perianths) from Eastwood, near Sydney. 
K. Fruiting perianth opened, showing seeds, 
p. Seeds, 2 in e&ch fruit. 
