1337. COMMISSIONERS FOR NEW SOUTH WALES, Sydney. 
A Collection of Commercial Timbers of New South Wales, prepared under the direction of .T. Ednie Brown, Director- 
General of Now South Wales Forests. 
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Commercial Timbers of New South Wales. 
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Avicennia officinalis .... 
(Linn.) 
Verbenaceaj. 
Mangrove... 
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Rauksia integrifolia . 
Honeysuckle 
(Linn.) 
Proteacete. 
187 
Casuarina glatica . 
Swamp Oft|f 
(Sieb.) 
Casuarina?. 
188 
Casuarina torulosa . 
. (Ait.) 
CaauariuR*, 
Forest Oak . 
180 
Ced rela an st ral is . 
(F. v. M.) 
Meliaecie. 
Red Cedar . 
100 
l>ysoxylon Fraserionutn.. 
( Men til.) 
Meliaceus. 
Rosewood.... 
An erect, low branching tree ; timber is valuable on account of its inlocked 
fibre ; used for knees of boats, stonemasons’ mallets, and bullock yokes. Hab., 
tidal estuaries, New South Wales. Height, 20 to 30 feet; diameter, 20 
inches. 
Timber coarse grained and tough ; used for knees and ribbs of boats, bullock 
yokes, <fce. ; takes a good polish. Hab., open and scrub forests, northern and 
southern coast districts, New England, &c. ; plentiful. Height, 40 to 50 feet ; 
diameter, 1 to 2 feet. 
l imber tough and strong ; used for shingles, staves, and fence posts. Hab., 
interior and coast districts ; usually in damp situations ; plentiful. Height, 
(30 to SO feet ; diameter, 1J to 2 feet. 
1 imher handsome, sometimes remarkably heavy ; valuable for cabinet work, 
shingles, *c. ; excellent fuel. Hab., open forests from II la warm to the Rich¬ 
mond River, westwards to New England and Bathurst. Height, 80 feet; 
diameter, 2 feet. 
l imber very valuable, dark red, and often l>cautifully marked : light, easily 
wrought, and durable; much used and valued for furniture, patterns, and all 
kinds of fittings in house and shipbuilding. Hab., brush forests northern and 
formet 1 y in Southern coast districts; becoming scarce; efforts now being made 
to conserve and propagate this timber. Height, up to 100 and even 200 feet ; 
diameter, up to (i and-oven 10 feet (exceptionally). 
Timber rose - anted, red, strong, close-grained, and durable; much valued for 
furniture making, shipdmildiit£, turnery, and indoor work, kc. ; one of the 
largest and In st of indigenous tunlior-treea. Hab., brush forests, northern and 
southern coast districts i moderately plentiful. Height, 100 feet; diameter, 
I to 0 feet. 
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