EUCALYPTUS TREES. 135 
jy different in its wood) are absolutely confined the 
Anonacee, Laurines, Monimiez, Meliacez, Rubi- 
aces, Myrsinez, Sapotez, Ebenacee, and Anacardier, 
together with the Baccate Myrtacesx, and nearly all 
the trees of Euphorbiace, Rutacer, Apocynex, Celas- 
trinez, Sapindacez, which, while often outnumbering 
the interspersed Eucalypts, seem to transfer the ob- 
server to Indian regions. None in the multitude of 
trees of these orders, with exception of our tonic-aro- 
matic Sassafras-tree (Atherospermum moschatum) and 
Hedycarpa Cunninghami, which supplies to the na- 
tives the friction-wood for igniting, transgress in the 
south the meridians of Gipps Land. Palms cease also 
there to exist, but their number increases northward 
along the east coast, while in Victoria these noble 
plants have their only representative in the tall-cab- 
bage or Fan- palm of the Snowy River —that Palm 
which, with the equally hardy Areca sapida of New 
Zealand, ought to be established wherever the Date is 
planted for embellishment. Rotang Palms (Calami 
of several species) render some of the northern thick- 
ets almost inapproachable, while there, also, on a few 
spots of the coast, the Cocoanut-tree occurs spontane- 
ously. A few peculiar Palms occur in the Cassowary 
country, near Cape York, and others around the Gulf of 
Carpentaria, as far west as Arnhemsland. The tallest 
of all, the lofty Alexandra Palm (Ptychosperma Alex- 
dre), extends southward to the tropic of Capricorn, 
and elevates its majestic crown widely beyond the or- - 
dinary trees of the jungle. The products of these en- 
tire forests is as varied as the vegetation which con- 
stitutes them. As yet, however, their treasures have 
been but scantily subjected to the test of the physi- 
