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Endiandra discoloi, Benth. 
Tick Wood. 
(Family LAURACEiE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Endiandra. (See Part XXXV, p. 79.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. discolor, Benth., in Flora Australiensis, 
v, 301 (1870). 
A shrub or tall tree, the young branches and inflorescence minutely hoary-tomentose. 
Leaves ovate or elliptical, obtuse or shortly acuminate, 2 to 3 inches long, green and glabrous 
above, glaucous or white underneath, with few prominent primary veins, the smaller 
reticulations conspicuous on both sides in the full-grown leaf. 
Panicles thyrsoid, much shorter than the leaves, the pedicels very short. 
Perianth-tube small and turbinate, the limb very open, about 11 lines diameter, with ovate 
segments. 
Stamens of the outer row entirely deficient, of the inner series 3, with sessile glands at their base 
and alternating with 3 small staminodia. 
Fruit ovoid-oblong, J to 1 inch long, resting on the unenlarged remains of the perianth. (Op. cit.) 
It possesses a considerable superficial resemblance to E. glauca, R.Br., a 
species found in Queensland, and not also in New South Wales as E. discolor is. 
Both of them are doubtless frequently passed over in the bush for the common 
Litscca deaibata, the leaves of all three trees being a good deal similar. 
Botanical Name. — Endiandra, already explained (see Part XXXV, p. 79) ; 
discolor, from two Latin words, signifying two colours, in allusion to the difference 
in colour of the upper and lower surfaces of the leaf. 
Vernacular Names. —This tree has been sent from several New South Wales 
coastal localities with the name “Tick Wood ” or “Teak Wood.” I believe that, 
originally, the name was “ Teak,” the wood being supposed to possess properties 
similar to that of the Native Teak of the Northern Rivers, Flindersia australis 
(see p. 149, Part XVII). Oftener than not it is called “ Tick ” now, and I there¬ 
fore recommend that name for this particular tree. I do not believe that the name 
has originated with the noxious insects which are certainly found in some of the 
brushes it frequents. 
I have heard it called “ Hickory.” 
Aboriginal Name. —The name “Murrogun” was applied by the blacks to 
a timber labelled Endiandra glauca, and collected by Sir William Macarthur in 
1854 at Brisbane Water for the Paris Exhibition (No. 224). Endiandra glauca is 
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