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Timber. —Of a brownish colour, hard, heavy and close-grained. 
Yappunya, or Yappundya, is a very useful timber for shafts, undercarriages of drays and waggons, 
and any heavy work ; also good for house-blocks and posts. Some posts 1 know of have been used about 
forty years in a stockyard, being once shifted when about twenty years in first yard, and at the present 
time quite sound. It is a very close grained wood, and will not bi'eak, but splinters. It is hard to get 
straight, as it grows very crooked. A good firewood, as it burns away to ash and leaves no charcoal. 
I have a picture-frame made from ring kappundya, which is very much admired. (R. J. Dalton, Wanaaring). 
“ It is the toughest timber of the district; you cannot break it. It is used for 
buggy-shafts, &c.” (A. Murpliy, then on Paroo.) 
“A valuable and durable building and fencing timber.” (A. W. Mullen.) 
Size. —Originally described as a tree of 50 feet or less. 
Has an erect trunk for 20-30 feet; it then branches off into a number of limbs. The trunks 
are up to 3 feet 6 inches in diameter. It has very drooping branches, almost like a willow, and this, 
conjoined with the straight trunk, gives the tree a peculiar appearance. (A. Murphy, speaking of the 
Paroo.) 
“ About 40 feet high.” (A. W. Mullen.) 
Habitat. —The specimens originally described by Mueller came from the 
rivers Warrego and Paroo. 
Mr. Surveyor A. W. Mullen says it grows on the grey soil of the Paroo flats. 
Mr. A. Murphy, who collected it on the Paroo, speaks of it as growing along 
the river hanks, on low, flat country, and very abundant. Yantabulla, Cuttaburra 
River. 
“ Pound only on the Paroo and Cuttaburra, in New South Wales, on black 
or flooded soil.” (Mr. Surveyor A. W. Mullen.) 
Tinapagee, Wanaaring. (R. J. Dalton.) 
Queensland. 
I bave received it from the following localities :—Bulloo River (J. F. Bailey) ; 
near Thargomindah (Collector of P. M. Bailey) ; Maranoa district (ditto). 
It is a dry-country species, and we require further observations as to its 
range, both in New South Wales and Queensland. As regards the former State, it 
has not been found east of the Darling, so far. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 187. 
a. Sucker leaf, from Cuttaburra River, Yantabulla, N.S.W. 
b. Twig, with buds and young fruit. 
c. Ripe fruits. 
D. Anther. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
‘ Yipunyah ” (Eucalyptus oc/irnphloia ); grey soil, Paroo Flats, N.S.W. (Photo, A. \V. 
Mullen, Bourke.) 
