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the changing station on the Little River, and around 

 Normanton. 



This species, which was the only Eucalypt met with 

 belonging to the subseries Eudesmiese, is a very interesting 

 one, for in addition to being one of the few having calyx 

 teeth, like the Angophoras, it is apparently the only 

 stringybark to be found in Northern Australia, excepting 

 in the extreme east. It is known both as Messmate and 

 Stringybark, and its bark is decidedly fibrous, the timber 

 being reddish-brown. 



In New South Wales the only Stringybark which extends 

 to the western districts is E. macrorrhyncha F.v.M., and 

 as it approaches its western limit and reaches the drier 

 country it becomes confined to the elevated land, but does 

 not penetrate so far inland as Nymagee, Nyngan or Moree. 



The "sucker" leaves of E. tetrodonta are opposite or 

 alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to seven inches 

 long by three to four inches broad, with petioles of half to 

 three-quarters of an inch long, the lateral veins being 

 arranged at an angle of about 60° with the midrib, the 

 intramarginal vein being close to the edge, the midrib 

 prominent on the upper side of the leaf, the young leaves 

 often reddish. The trees, which are erect, have an average 

 height of about forty feet with a diameter of about one 

 foot, and prefer siliceous soil. 



This is the species referred to by Leichhardt as Stringy- 

 bark, and noted at various points from the upper Lynd right 

 to the settlement at Port Essington. 



Between the sixty-ninth and seventy-first mile-posts 

 several trees were seen which exactly resemble Casuarina 

 Cambagei (Belah, a species regarded as C. lepldophloia by 

 Mr. Maiden), but as it was impossible to obtain specimens 

 for verification, the identification may not be accurate. 



