Commissioners for New South Wales, Sydney.— A Collection of Commercial Timbers of N.S.W.— continued. 
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Eucalyptus capitellata . 
(Smith.) 
Myrtace®. 
Eucalyptus creba .. 
(F. v. M.) 
Myrtacea*. 
Eucalyptus hemiphloia. 
(F. v. M.) 
Myrtacea*. 
Eucalyptus largiflorens .... 
(F. v. M.) 
Myrtacea*. 
Eucalyptus longifolia . 
(Link k Otto). 
Myrtacea'. 
Eucalyptus melanophloia... 
(F. v. M.) 
Myrtacea*. 
Eucalyptus maculata . 
(Hooker.) 
Myrtacea 1 . 
Eucalyptus tnacrorrliyDelta 
(F. v. M.) 
MyrUce.c. 
Indigenous Timbers of New South Wales — continued. 
Stringy bark ... 
Narrow-leaved 
Ironbark. 
White Box .... 
Box . 
Woolly bo tt. 
Silver-leaved iron 
bark. 
Spotted Gum . 
Stringy bark 
Timber strong, tough, and durable; used for buildings, fencing, fuel, &c.; bark 
used for rooting sheds and rural dwellings. Hub., open forests, southern 
districts ; plentiful. Height, 150 to 200 feet ; diameter, 3 to 4 feet. 
Timber hard, heavy, strong, inlocked, and durable; used for railway sleepers, 
girders, and spokes of wheels, poles and shafts of carriages, kc. Hah. , open 
forests, northern and southern coast districts, extending a considerable distance 
inland ; moderately plentiful. Height, 100 to 150 feet ; diameter, 2 to 3 feet. 
Timber hard, tough, and durable, of great lateral strength ; excellent fuel ; used 
for naves, felloes, scantlings, jetty and bridge piles, plankings, fencing, kc. 
Hab., open forests. Height, 50 to GO feet; diameter, 20 to 40 inches. 
Timber hard, tough, and durable, lasting underground ; used for fencing, rough 
buildings, kc. Hab., open forests south coast and western interior districts ; 
not plentiful. Height, 100 to 120 feet ; diameter, 2 to 3 feet. 
Timber used for fuel ; not much valued as a timber localise of its gum veins, 
When sound, is sought after for wheelwrights' work. Used for posts and rails 
and buildings. Hub., coast districts. Height, 100 to 130 feet; diameter, 36 
to 48 inches. 
Timber usually small and stunted ; used for rough fencing, slabs, and fuel. Hab., 
open forests, north-western interior districts ; not plentiful. Height, 40 to 50 
feet; diameter, 12 to 18 inches. 
Timber strong, close-grained, elastic, and durable ; used for shipbuilding, staves 
of casks, eultes for street paving, girders, naves of wheels, cart and buggy 
shafts, shingles, buildings ; the timber splits well ; the bark is spotted, hence 
the name. Hab., open forests, northern and southern coast districts ; plentiful. 
Height, 100 to 150 feet; diameter, 2 to 4 feet. 
Timber hard, light, strong, and close grained, capable of a good polish ; splits 
well for fencing posts and rails, shingles, &c. ; furnishes fair fuel. Hab., open 
forests New England, central New South Wales. Height, 50 to 100 feet; 
diameter, 24 to 54 inches. 
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