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The umbels have three to six flowers crowded together (original description). 

 It will be observed that they are rather large, with opercula often inclined to be flattish, 

 tearing off irregularly, often showing the scar of an outer operculum, and only about 

 half the. length of the calyx- tube. Mr. R. H. Cambage says that some old buds which 

 had perished and remained on the tree at Alma-den were about 7 mm. in diameter. 



Fruit truncate- ovate, sub-campanulate, slightly longer than an inch, scarcely 

 contracted at the mouth, almost twice as long as the pedicels (original description). 



Mr. Cambage, speaking of North Queensland trees, says that — - 



At the time the flowers fall, the very young fruits are sometimes obconical, and their shape is not 

 then in the least suggestive of the mature form. The fruits vary from urceolate to almost cylindrical 

 with very little contraction at the neck, and the shape, changes with the development of the seed vessels. 

 The fruits seen range from 1-6 cm. to 24 cm. in length, the diameter being from about 1*1 to 1-2 cm., 

 and the width across the usually thin rim 6 to 7 mm., the capsule sunk. 



For further notes on the buds and fruits, see under Northern Territory, p. 310. 



The fruits figured on Plates 164 and 165 are illustrative of variation in the species, 

 so far as I have noted it. The fruits may be described as cylindroid, not so contracted 

 in the neck as those of most species of the Corymbosfe, with thick walls and rims usually 

 flat-topped. 



Manna is procured from the leaves and small blanches by being gathered and laid on pieces of 

 bark, when the particles of sugar or gum fall off, or are scraped off with mussel-shells into a Kooliman 

 (bowl), or the. leaves, when covered with the white exudation, are pounded together with a stone and 

 roasted in the ashes. Sometimes the sugary particles are gathered as they fall from the trees. After 

 the rainy season this food i>- said to be abundant. (E. Palmer, Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W., xvii, p. 98, 

 1883.) 



I have a duplicate of the specimen submitted by Palmer to Mueller at the time. 

 It came from Cloncurry and the Gilbert River. Roth, " Bull. No. 3 of North 

 Queensland Ethnography," records it from the Pennefather and Batavia Rivers, and 

 gives the native name as " Raru." In No. 5 of the same Bulletins he says " The gum 

 (kino) mixed with water, is used for dysentery on the Palmer. (Middle) Palmer 

 River, native name ' Ga-ja.' ' 



Other Plants referred to this Species. 



1. E. terminalis Britten non. F.v.M., in " Botany of Captain Cook's Voyage," 

 ii, Plate 117, from Lizard Island and Thirsty Sound, North Queensland, I have referred 

 to E. crebra F.v.M. in Vol. II, p. 64, of the present work. It is a small-fruited species, 

 not a large-fruited one like E. terminalis F.v.M. Mr. Britten's reference is to Gaertner's 

 De Fructibus i, 171, and the corresponding Tab. xxxiv, fig. 3, consists of two small- 

 fruited specimens. 



2. E. terminalis Sieb. PI. Exs., is, according to Bentham (B.F1. hi, 211), 



E. paniculata Sm. 



Fleshiness of the Calyx-tube. 



In no group of Eucalypts is the wall of the calyx-tube more fleshy than in certain 



members of the Corymbosse. The wall is comparatively thick and hence shrivelling 



in young fruits dried for the herbarium is common, and in no species more so than in 



