Commissioners for New South Wales, Sydney.— A Collection of Commercial Timbers of N.S.W .—continued. 
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Eucalyptus sideroxylon. 
(A. Cunn.) 
Myrtacese. 
Eucalyptus teretioornis. 
(Smith.) 
Myrtacea*. 
Eucalyptus virgata. 
(Sieb.) 
Myrtacea 1 . 
248 Elaocarpus grandis 
rmacete. 
219 Eugenia Ventonatii 
(Benth.) 
Myrtacea-. 
230 Flindersia Oxleyana 
(F. r. II.) 
Meliacea?. 
‘-.»l Flindersia Rennet tinna 
(F. v. M.) 
Meliacea*. 
232 Flindersia Schottiana 
| (F. v. M.) 
Meliace;c. 
Indigenous Timbers of New South Wales — continued. 
Mugga .. 
Red Gum 
Mountain Ash. 
Blue Fig 
Myrtle 
Light Yellow wood 
Bognm-Bogum 
Ash 
limber soft in character when compared with other Ironbarks ; is not plentiful, 
being found in small belts or patches ; chiefly in central New South Wales, 
Macquarie and Bogan River districts ; does not grow to any great size. 
Timber hard, heavy, close grained and durable; used for posts and rails of fences; 
bridge, house, and shipbuilding, wheelwrights’ work, &c. Hab., open forests, 
not them and southern coast districts. Height, 80 to 100 feet; diameter. 36 to 
48 inches. 
I imber tough, durable, and elastic, splits freely ; used for staves of casks, shingles, 
polos, shafts of drays, palings, rails, and rough buildings. Hab., open forests, 
southern coasts districts, and Blue Mountains ; plentiful. Height, 100 to 150 
feet; diameter, 3 to 4 feet. 
limber soft, easily worked, not much used. Hab., brush forests, Clarence and 
Richmond Rivers. Height, 90 to 100 feet ; diameter, 20 to 36 inches. 
1 imber close grained and tough; used for tool handles, ribs of boats, and the 
flooring boards of verandahs. Hab., brush forests, Hastings, Macleay, Clarence 
and Richmond Itivors. Height, 40 to 60 feet ; diameter, 24 to 36 inches. 
Timber strung, durable, finegrained, and of good colour; used in boatbuilding, 
cabinet-work, and formally purposes to which cedar is applied; useful wood 
for fancy work, owing to pale yellow colour ; resembles beech ; suitable for 
hand -screen making, buggy shafts, Ac. ; not plentiful. Hab., northern brush 
forests. New South Wales. Height, 80 to 100 feet ; diameter, 24 to 42 inches, 
li e closo K rai, »^T useful for saddle-making, staves, Ac. ; not much used 
Hab., northern districts, New South Wales. Height, 70 to 90 feet ; diameter 
18 to 26 inches. 
Timber hard, close grained, prettily marked, and of a pale yellow colour ; used 
f"f shingles and staves and for cabinet-work. Hab., Hastings River, New 
South W ales. Height, 30 to 60 feet; diameter, 18 to 30 inches. 
690 Catalogue of New South Wales Exhibits. 
Department N. Forestry. 
Group XIX—Classes 99, 100, and 101: Logs, Worked Timber, and Ornamental Wood. 
