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Timber. —Mr. Moore, in tSie Cat. N.S.JF. Exhibits , London Exh., 1862 
(the first, reference T can find to the timber), says :— 
In favourable situations, this tree attains a large size. Timber hard, close-grained, hut not used. 
In a recent official report, referring to Bellinger River timber, occurs the 
following:—- 
Wood white, light, and fine-grained, having, when freshly cut, the pungent odour of Sassafras. 
(E. H. F. Swain.) 
Size. —The height given by Bentham to the Queensland form is “ 30 feet or 
more.” Mr. Moore calls it, on the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, “ a large tree.” 
The Catalogue of Indigenous JFoods from the Northern Districts, prepared 
for the Paris Exhibition of 1855, speaks of it under No. A. 15 as “averaging in size 
2 feet diameter in the stem, and from 70 to 80 feet in height.” 
Mr. Baeuerlen variously estimated its height as 20-30 feet (Alstonville), and 
20-40 feet (Ballina). 
On the Bellinger, Mr. Swain speaks of it as “ a small tree.” 
It is an interesting species of which we know but little; it is, indeed, one of 
the brush trees of New South Wales which promise an abundant harvest, first to the 
scientific investigator, and then to the commercial man. 
Habitat. —-Following are the localities given by Bentham for that form of 
the species designated by him Tetranthera ferruginea ; they are all in Queensland 
Cape Grafton to Endeavour River (flanks and Solander, A. Cunningham) ; Rockingham Bay 
(Daliachy) ; between Cleveland and Rockingham Bay (TF. Hill). 
Then he gives the following localities for T. ferruginea , A-ar. lanceolata , 
Meissn., which I do not think is a very useful variety : — 
Family Island, Rockingham Bay, Queensland ( Dallachy ) ; Brisbane River (C. Moore). 
This is No. A 15 in the Cat. of Indigenous JFoods of the Northern Districts, 
exhibited at the Paris Exhibition of 1855, and it is catalogued as “a scrub tree 
of the Laurus or Cinnamon tree familv .... a common scrub tree near 
Brisbane.” 
Later on, Mr. Moore, in his Cat. Indigenous JFoods for the Northern 
Districts, prepared for the London Exhibition of 18U2, exhibited it under No. XLIX, 
from “ Clarence and Richmond brush forests.” 
The species also occurs in the following New South Wales localities:— 
Ballina and Alstonville, Richmond River (both by W. Baeuerlen) ; and Gleniffer, 
Bellinger River (E. H. F. Swain), considerably to the south. 
This tree is therefore confined to Eastern Australia, viz., eastern New South 
Wales and Queensland, in rich brushes, and its range, so far as we know it at 
present, is from the Endeavour River in the north to the Bellinger River in the 
south. 
