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Timber. —Hard and close-grained, tough, heavy, and durable; used for 
gates, buggy poles, furniture, &c., and by the aborigines for boomerangs, spears, 
and waddies. It is dark brown, with a small yellow 7 sap-wood. Mr. G. S. Home 
tells me that this is one of the most useful timber trees in the Lachlan district of 
New South Wales. It is useful for turnery work. 
In the Report, Victorian Exhibition, 1861, the specific gravity of the wood 
is given at L215. 
Miss M. A. Clements, of Condobolin, informed me that the Currawang grows 
in single, small straight stems, as a scrub, on stony hills, but on low ground it 
attains the dignity of a tree. She measured one 3 feet in circumference. 
Habitat. —It is found in the drier parts of most of the States, generally on 
stony ridges. 
The Flora Australiensis records it from the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers 
in New South Wales (the type locality) ; in Queensland from the Upper Maranoa 
and Brisbane River; in Victoria from the Ovens River. Neither Bailey nor Mueller 
appear to have given additional localities from Queensland and Victoria. It also 
occurs in northern South Australia, e.g., MacDonnell Range, Camp 25 (W. H. 
Tietkens), and in Western Australia, e.g., Broome, West Kimberley (W. V. 
Fitzgerald). 
As regards New South Wales, following are most of the localities from the 
National Herbarium, Sydney :— 
Paupong, 20-30 miles south-west of Dalgety. Near the Victorian border. 
(R. Bornsteen, through R. H. Cambagc.i “Upright tree 20-30 feet; diameter 
12-18 inches. Pound chiefly on dry stony ridges on Bedooba and other stations. 
Common in Lachlan district ” (J. Huff) ; “ Small slender tree, 15-20 feet, only 
found on stony hills. Wood remarkably hard, and smells sw 7 eet when fresh. Much 
used by blacks for manufacture of weapons. Stock will not eat the leaves.” 
Ivanhoe, via Hay (K. H. Bennett) ; Wagga Wagga (J.H.M.) ; Wvalong (A. 
Osborne and J. E. Carne) ; Wooyeo, Lake Cudgellico (G. S. Home) ; Euabalong 
(R. H. Cambage) ; Shuttleton, near Cobar (P. E. Lewis); “ Bastard Yarran,” Mount 
Boppy (T. McNamara); Mount McDonald (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman); Bumberry, 
near Molong (J.H.M.); near Cudal (W. F. Blakeley); Dubho to Tomingley (J.H.M.); 
very narrow-leaved form, Peak Hill and Harvey Range (J. L. Boorman) ; Coolabah 
(C. J. McMaster and J. L. Boorman); Nyngan, “ edible for stock—on porphyry 
ridges ” (E. F. Rogers) ; Gungal, near Merriwa, large, pendulous, ugly-shaped trees, 
scantily distributed on the ridges (J. L. Boorman) ; Wybong Creek, Denman 
(A. Rudder); Bylong Creek (R. T. Baker); Goonoo to Mudgee (J. L. Boorman), 
a prostrate form connecting with var. ovata; Narrabri, with narrow phyllodes 
(J. L. Boorman). 
