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In a paper entitled " Exploration between the Wingecaribee, Shoalhaven, 



Macquarie and Mnrrumbidgee Rivers (N.S.W.)," Mr. R. H. Cambage has an interesting 



note. 



Surveyor Meehan arrived in the Orange district on 4th May, 1820, passing a mile or two to the 

 eastward of Cadia. Mr. Cambage says, " He afterwards mentioned ' Blackbutted Gums.' The Gums 

 were probably Eucalyptus viminalis (Manna Gum), many of which, in that district, have dark, thick, flaky 

 bark at the base. . . . Met some white congealed gum distilled from the Blackbutted Gum. Is the 

 same that Mr. Evans found when first going to the Lachlan. Evans found the ' manna ' on May 20th, 

 1815, to the eastward of Mandurama, and it occurs also On Eucalyptus rubida, another White Gum." 

 (R. H. Cambage, in Joum. Roy. Aust. Hist. Soc, vii, 253, 1921.) 



The passage is also of interest as giving an early use of the term " Blackbutted 

 Gum." In Part L, p. 310, I have quoted a later use (1833) from Sturt's " Southern 

 Australia," II, 236, and these two references indicate that use of the term " Blackbutt " 

 which refers to a member of the Leiophloiae with more or less dark flaky bark at the 

 butt (see Part LI, p. 19). But a reference I have recently found (Oxley's "Journal of 

 Two Expeditions," 331), published in 1820, but recording observations made in 1818, 

 attaches the name " Blackbutted Gum " to the tree at Port Macquarie which is 

 E. filularis Sm., and which is the well-known eastern coastal member of the Hemi- 

 phloise (see Part LI, p. 33). 



Explanation of Plates 224-227. 

 PLATE 224. 



The figures on this Plate, and to which I have given the numbers 1-18, are all taken from 

 Taf . XXVIII, " Die Tertiare Flora von Haring in Tirol " von Constantin v. Ettingshausen — Abhandlungen 

 der k. k. geologischen Reichsanstalt, II Band, 3 Abtg., Nr. 2, p. 117, 1853, Ettingshausen's figure numbers 

 being quoted by me in brackets. 



E. oceanica Unger. 



1. (Fig. 1). Leaf. (I have not Unger's original figure, as quoted by Ettingshausen, and it will be 

 observed that the figure given by Ettingshausen and now reproduced, though probably well 

 authenticated, has no venation. Nor have I seen the species figured by Heer (F lor. Text. Helv., 

 pi. cliv, fig. 14) as quoted by Lesquereux.) 



E. Haringiana Ettingshausen. 



2 (fig. 2), 3 (fig. 3), 4 (fig. 5), 5 (fig. 7), 6 (fig. 13), 7 (fig. 25). Leaves. 



8 (fig. 14), 9 (fig. 15), 10 (fig. 16). Fruits. 

 11 (fig. 17), 12 (fig. 18). Fruits. 

 13 (fig. 19), 14 (fig. 20), 15 (fig. 21), 16 (fig. 22), 17 (fig. 23), IS (fig. 24). Fru s. 



(Lesquereux at Fig. 3, Plate 225, has some leaves which he labels E. H&ringiana (?). They are 

 certainly more doubtful than most fossils attributed to Eucalyptus.) 



The figures, to which I have given the numbers 19-21, are taken from " Beitrage zur Kreide Flora," 

 by Dr. Oswald Heer, Heer's numbers being quoted by me in brackets. All the leaves are referred to 

 Myrtophyllum. 



Eucalyptus (Myrtophyllum) Schubleri Heer. 



19 (fig. 2). Leaf. 



Eucalyptus (Myrtophyllum) Geinitzi Heer. 



20 (fig. 3), 21 (fig. 4). Leaves. 



