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Baron von Mueller exhibited at the Intercolonial Exhibition of Melbourne, 
1868, cotton and woollen fabrics dyed with the bark of this tree. Various tints of 
reddish-brown were obtained. I simply record the fact; I think the bark has no 
commercial importance. 
Timber.—Brown, hard, heavy, and elastic ; used by the natives for spears, 
boomerangs, and clubs. The wood splits freely, and is used for fancy turnery. 
Saplings used as stakes in vineyards have lasted twenty years or more. It is used 
for rough building purposes. 
A fairly large tree, with rough bark, somewhat resembling that of Ironbark. Leaves curved and 
tapering, having a silvery hue. Wood dark-brown, and also of a grey co'our, fragrant, close-grained, and 
bends well. 
Chief uses are for turnery and cabinet work. The grey variety, which is very tough, is used for 
spokes of wheels and whipple-trees. Both might be used for inside work in buddings. (Cat. Q. Forestry 
■Mus., 1904.) 
The timber is very heavy and dense, resembling Myall (Acacia pendula ; see Part XVI), but without 
the pronounced scent peculiar to that timber. It is different also from the Myall in being not so brittle, and it 
is the favourite material used for stockwhip handles in the Moree District. I am satisfied that the timber 
possesses very considerable commercial value, which is restricted, however, by the fact that the trunk of 
the matured tree would average, say, 15 feet long and 8 inches diameter at each end. 
The aborigines used it almost exclusively in that district in the construction of their fighting and 
hunting implements. (C. J. McMaster.) 
Exudation. —An astringent gum of this species is described by Lauterer.* 
Si/e. —Usually it attains a height of 20 or 30 feet in New South Wales, and 
10 feet more in Queensland, but exceptionally a greater size. 
Habitat. —The type came from Rockhampton. Native of Central Queens¬ 
land, and New South Wales. It is very gregarious and abundant, as has been already 
indicated. Someone has called it the “national scrub” of Queensland. It forms 
very large scrubs on inland downs country, and in some parts not far from the coast, 
such as the Eassifern District. In the Narrabri District, New South Wales, it is 
very abundant, and it extends more or less abundantly as far as the Darling and 
beyond. It extends as far south as Coolabah and Marsdcn (the most southerly 
locality recorded). 
New South Wales localities not previously specifically enumerated arc Tarcoon, 
Bourke District, Nyngan, Dubbo, plains near Baradine, Warrah, 'Willow-tree, Scone, 
Moree, Warialda. 
Noles .— (o) The only places for Brigalow in the Coolabah District, that side 
of the Bogan are :—Tubba, West Bogan, Willeroon, and Mt. Pleasant. 
Gums and resins exuded by Queensland plants chemically and technologically described.” From pages 35 to 80 of 
F. M. Bailey’s Botany Bulletin No. 13 (April, 1896), “Contributions to the Queensland Flora.” 
