Pte) FOREST VEGETATION. 
geuice. ie is trivalved, and the lee protrude slightly. Habits, 
C. ee grows in all classes of soil except black alluvial ; 
on the fed friable soils of the basaltic formations about Vegetable 
Creek it is a large tree, frequently exceeding four feet in diameter ; 
on those soils it is alw ays accompanied with wild hop (Dodonea) 
and wattle (Acacia); on granite and elvantta soils its under- 
growth is generally saplings of stringy-bark; it is sometimes, 
however, on those soils accompanied by BT its timber com- 
binations are iron-bark and various kinds of gum. 
ELLOW Jron-BARK.—Grou aagss ( Gaia Na. 17). 
—The bark of this tree is much less wrink 
af: L lat ; midri ent o er side, as are 
also the marginal nerves ; ee pas ae and the petiole is 
about half an inch long, alternate. Seed Th 
ce. 
The capsule is ‘sxcelled, a the Rai es are 8 sunk ; the orifice is 
Be canial y a I-defined lip; the peduncle is about a quarter 
of an inch long, Hey 8 is thin and tough. Habits, fc. : Frequents 
poor granitic soils ; scrub oak generally grows in company with it, 
also stringy-bark, plackbut, and yellow box; the ne gum also 
‘grows on. this soil. In swampy patches the plant known as 
bi pero weed, ” a flesh-eater, Drosera peltata of Narain occurs. 
Ir —Group Schizophloie a Sg No. 18) is 
tree aenrally inhabits soil of a very poo character. On New 
mente: it arabe onelvyanite ridges most amen y; not often 
on pure oF ses ¢ country, but frequently about the junction of 
— wi 7 The! bark i is very thick and ; the creases 
eep an its general colour is aa brownish 
winch, but ee the creases it is reddish. The wood is very 
ere is more evenness in size between the 
nam of young and old trees than is usual between those of 
ost other species of the ee Eucalyptus ; they are about three 
toes long, and half-an-inch wide, of a bluish-green colour ; 
dark and sombre looki ‘foliage. They are alternate! ti in pairs, 
the Frama 30 between ihe on one side of the twig being 
| r than those of the other; after two or three alternations 
we Aart is Opposi petiole i tenths of an inch long, 
and the midrib is well defined, but does not stand above the plain 
; ee dehies @ uel generally 
et or Ee 
a EONS Fe al ih tee ae 
Se ee ca bee ee ee ae ie Tan Naar sys 0, 
