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R. H. CAMBAGE. 



Flying Foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) camp in some of 

 the denser vegetation near the Gulf, and at night they 

 visit the rivers for the purpose of obtaining the honey from 

 the Willow Tea-tree flowers. 



Bentham included M. saligna as a variety of M. leuca- 

 dendron, but Messrs. Baker and Smith point out that it 

 should have specific rank. x In general appearance and habit 

 the tree is quite distinct from various other Melaleucas 

 which in the past have been placed under M, leucadendron. 



The trees identified as Melaleuca Cunninghamii Schau. 

 (No. 3922) have leaves from four to eight inches long and 

 up to two and a quarter inches wide, with six or seven 

 prominent parallel veins, and are from twenty to twenty- 

 five feet high at Croydon and Normanton. 



M. symphyocarpa (No. 3914) was seen where the road 

 crosses the Gilbert River, a specimen being snatched off a 

 tree from the passing coach. 



The trees provisionally identified as Eucalyptus gracilis 

 (No. 3930) are growing a few miles to the east and south 

 of Normanton on a sandy Cretaceous formation containing 

 ironstone pebbles. They are small box trees from ten to 

 thirty feet high, often with branching stems suggestive of 

 mallee, leaves bright green and shiny, yielding no smell of 

 oil when crushed, box bark on trunk and large branches, 

 some small branches smooth and greenish, adult leaves from 

 three to four and a half inches long, about 1 cm. wide, 

 juvenile leaves up to three inches long and one and a quarter 

 inches wide, fruits about 4 mm. long and 3 mm. in diameter. 2 

 Leichhardt appears to have passed through this identical 

 forest after crossing the Norman River, the native name 



1 "On the Australian Melaleucas and their Essential Oils." This 

 Journal, Vol. xlvit, (1913) p. 200. 



2 See "Notes on Eucalyptus (with descriptions of New Species) No. 4," 

 by J. H. Maiden, f.l.s. This Journal, xlix, (1915), p. 326. 



