43 
Leaves. —Note the venation. 
Bailey states that the leaves of this tree were, on one occasion, sent to him 
with the statement that they had caused the death of some pigs which had eaten 
them. 
Bark. —In the bark of this species and also of C. australis, Dr. T. L. Bancroft 
detected an intensely bitter poisonous alkaloid. See also Part XXYI, p. 113, of this 
work. 
Timber. —A grey colour, close in grain, and tough, but not of ascertained 
value. As has been already pointed out, we know but little of the value of the 
timbers of this genus. They are not ornamental and they do not appear to possess 
properties which mark them for special notice. 
Size. —A tree of medium size although sometimes called “ a large tree.” It 
is, however, difficult to ascertain the average size of most brush trees. 
The Lord Howe Island tree attains a diameter of 5 to 6 feet, and it is an 
exception to the general run of Lord Howe timbers, which are usually surface-rooters. 
“ Blackbutt ” is accounted to be the most difficult tree to stump (root out) in the 
island. 
Habitat.—Polio wing are the localities given in the Flora Australiensis : — 
Queensland. —E. Coast (A. Brown) ; Edgecumbe and Rockingham Bays 
[Dallachy) ; p ort Denison (Fitzalan) ; Rockhampton ( Dallachy , O’Shanesy, and 
others) ; Cape River, Crocodile and Nerkool Creeks ( Bowman ); Archer’s Creek 
(Leichhardt) ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay ( Leichhardt, F. Mueller, W. Hill, and 
others). 
New South Wales. —Richmond and Clarence Rivers ( C. Moore, Beckler). 
To these localities it may be added that it is common enough on the 
Macpherson Range. 
It also occurs on Lord Howe Island, but has never been recorded from 
Norfolk Island. Speaking of Lord Howe Island, Bentham (B.E1. v, 298) says :— 
The specimen of Milne’s from L''rd Howe’s Island, referred by Meissner to Car^odnphne densijlora, 
Blume, is in old leaf only, and cannot be determined with any certainty. It appears to be much more 
like some varieties of Cryptocarya Iriplinervis than any specimen of the Javanese C. densijlora. 
There is no doubt that Bentham’s surmise that C. triplinervis is found on 
the island is correct. The plant I collected on the island myself, and it seems 
identical with C. triplinervis. 
