406 K. H. CAMBAGE. 



River, and afterwards until after he had crossed the Roper 

 River in the Northern Territory. His first entry reads : — 

 "Another Eucalyptus with a scaly butt like the Moreton 

 Bay Ash, but with a smooth upper trunk and cordate ovate 

 leaves, which was also new to me; we called it Apple-gum." 

 (Op. cit., p. 264, 304, 325, 353, 394, 464, 473). 



This Apple-gum was seen by me at various points between 

 Alma-den and Norman ton, and again in the Cloncurry River 

 district. 



Another Eucalypt of considerable interest seen around 

 Alma-den was E. papuana F.v.M., (E. tesselaris var. 

 Dallachiana Benth., or E. clavigera var. Dallachiana 

 Maiden). 1 A feature of these trees is that their leaves 

 are often shiny and twisted, or ; crinkled, those on small 

 saplings being usually very large, sometimes measuring 

 eleven by five and a half inches, but in all cases smooth 

 and petiolate. The bark on the main portion of the trunk 

 is smooth and white, but in this locality there is sometimes 

 a little roughness on the butt for a height of six or eight 

 feet, but in many cases the bark is white to the ground, 

 and turns brown before peeling oft*. (Plate LVII, fig. 2.) 

 The timber is a very dark brown, and the fruits seem inter- 

 mediate between those of E. tesselaris and E. clavigera, 

 being up to 1 cm. long, by 7 mm. in diameter, with pedicels 

 of 3 to 4 mm. Neither buds nor flowers were obtained. 

 These trees appeared to be quite distinct from those of E. 

 clavigera growing near. Trees of E. papuana were seen 

 intermittently from Alma-den to Normanton,on the Gilbert, 

 Flinders, Oorella and Cloncurry Rivers, and around Barcal- 

 dine, and were in most cases smooth and white to the 

 ground and known as Cabbage Gum. 



1 "Notes on Eucalyptus," by J. H. Maiden, f.l.s., Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.. 

 Wales, Vol. xlvii, (1913), p. 77; also Vol. xlix, (1915), p. 330. 



