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to be S. verlascifolium. It grows to a tall slenderly branched 

 sbrub with large leaves. It is indigenous in the neighbourhood, 

 so that its spread is remarkable. 



In the more open gum forests on the bank of the river Eucalyptus 

 teriticornis is the most abundant. It is called the red gum here 

 and is exactly like the red gum {U. rostrata) which lines all the 

 rivers and creeks of South Australia and Victoria, and grows in 

 so many inundated plains that it bears the name of flooded gum. 

 The wood is of the same quality, and held in equal esteem. The 

 only difference seems to be in the operculum or cap of the bud, 

 which in E. rostrata has a small point or hollow beak on the top, 

 and this in E. tereticornis becomes enormously prolonged into a 

 curved horn. But on the banks of the Nogoa in Central Queens- 

 and I gathered from the same tree buds which were like E. 

 rostrata and E. tereticornis. Baron v. Mueller thinks that they 

 are closely allied. E. acuminata, Hook., was suppressed by 

 Bentham as a species because of its being an intermediate variety ; 

 that is a form of E. rostrata, which approached E. tereticornis in 

 the shape of the operculum. 



In the same locality we have rather numerous specimens of 

 Cdreya arhorea, I am not aware that this tree has ever been 

 recorded so far to the south before. It is a very common tree in 

 the open forests of the tropics. Bentham has doubts if this 

 species can be considered as the same as C. arhorea of the Coro- 

 mandel coast, the flowers of which are sessile and the fruit 

 globular. The Australian species are all ovoid and the flower 

 with a long pedicel. The blossom is seldom seen on the tree for 

 as the bvd opens the ring of stamens becomes detached and falls 

 off as a graceful fringe to the ground. The blacks eat the seeds 

 aid I have heard it said that they roast and eat the fruit as well. 

 One peculiarity has not been noticed in this tree, and that is the 

 colour of ;the leaves. They are very often a brilliant crimson 

 with every intermediate shade of yellow, orange, and red, a few 

 of the older leaves being a pale grey green. 

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