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Timber. —Close-grained, tough, heavy, dark brown, and nicely marked. 
The aborigines make boomerangs, and the colonists tables, chairs, and other 
furniture from it. ( General Report, Sydney International Exhibition, 1879.) It 
is valued for bullock-yokes in western New South Wales, and also for shafts of 
carts. Mr. G. S. Home tells me that cheffoniers, and other articles of drawing¬ 
room furniture, are commonly made from it in western New South Wales, as it 
takes such a high polish. Specific gravity *7C3, or weight of a cubic foot of the 
dried wood about 471 lh. (Mueller). 
Eumung ( Acacia salicina). This acacia is found in the interior of New South Wales. It is 
similar in colour and texture to Blackwood ( Acacia melanoxylon ) and makes a good club, although inclined 
to chip and fray. (R. T. Baker, in “Golf Illustrated,” 28th July, 1905.) 
Acacia stenophylla is also called “ Eumung ” or “ Eumong.” 
Habitat. —Following are some specimens in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney:— 
Queensland. —Northern Queensland, Banks and Solander, 1770, ex British 
Museum; Diamantina (through E. M. Bailey). 
New South Wales .— 
Another tree growing on the river flats (Lachlan River) is Acacia salicina, Lindl. (Cooba or 
Native Willow). It has a diameter up to 2 feet, and is a most useful timber, being in request for 
cabinet-making and certain wheelwrights’ work. (R. H. Cambage, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 1901, 209.) 
Thackaringa (Acting Forester ?); Bonghilla, Moulamein (T. Grieve). Local 
name, “ Willow.” 
This tree in favourable situations attains a height of 35-40 feet, and is the largest and handsomest 
of our Acacias; is usually regarded as an indication of water at a shallow depth ; wood remarkably light 
and tough. Ivanhoe, vid Hay (K. H. Bennett). 
Palesthan, vid Condobolin (Miss M. A. Clements); Lake Cudgellico (J. L. 
Boorman) ; “ Cooba.” The most western limit in this part of the Central Division 
is 26 miles east of Nvngan (E. E. Rogers, Forest Guard, Nyngan); Marra Creek, 
vid Coolabah (R. W. Peacock); Coolabah, large tree “Willow,” locally called 
“Eumung” (J. L. Boorman). 
A bushy tree about 20-30 feet high. Grows in swampy Box flats or on river 
banks, Bogan River (A. W. Mullen); Brewarrina, Burren Junction (J. L. Boorman). 
Drooping branches, has appearance of Myall, Page River, 8 miles from Scone 
(R. H. Cambage and J.H.M.) ; Minembah, Whittingham, near Singleton (Sylvester 
Browne); Denman (J.H.M. and J. L. Boorman); Denman. Small trees, rather 
erect. No. 1,648 (R. H. Cambage). 
“ Drooping foliage. Grows on ridge as well as in valley; some leaves rather 
viscid. Attunga, 12 miles north-west of Tamvvorth. No. 656” (R. H. Cambage); 
Warialda, No. 11 (Rev. H. M. R. Rupp). 
