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antluH's very small, ^jlobiilar, each cell opening by a 
lateral, comparatively large pore. Seed capsules obovoid 
or rarely broadly turbinate, about I inch long and 2 
lines diam, on pedicels, about 2 lines or almost sessile, 
deeply sunk 3 to o celled, rim narrow, valves short, not 
]>rotruding. 
Distribution.— TIas a wide distribution ranging 
through Queensland and New South AVales, and varieties 
occur in Victoria and South Australia. Tn Queensland it 
I’anges fj-om the Sontheim border to Rockhampton, and 
extends from the coast to about 150 miles inland. 
Botanical Name.— Eucalyptus (see under No. 1) ; 
hemi])hloia from tlie Gi*eek hemi, lialf and phloios bark. 
Common Name. — Known universally in Queensland 
as '‘Gum-topped Box.^’ 
Timber. — A useful liardwood, but uot cut to any 
extent ; it is subject to grub holes. 
Botanical Reference. — E. hemiphloia E. v. iMueller. 
in Fi-agmenta . Phytogra])]iiae Australiae. Vol 2. p. 6 
^860). J. IT. Maiden in his “Gritical Revision of the 
Genus Eucalyptus,” Vol. 2. p. 14 has some interesting 
notes on the naming of this species. 
0 
A NATURALIST IN THE PHILIPPINES. 
(By D. A. Herbert, M.Sc., Department of Biology, 
University of Queensland.) 
(Resume of Lecture delivered before the Queensland 
Naturalists’ Club. 18th May, 192 5.) 
Tn 1521 Ferdinand Magellan landed in the Philip- 
pines after having circumnavigated the globe for tl)e first 
time. He converted the natives of (.'ebn to Christianity 
and laid the foundations of Spanish dominion in the 
Philippines. Shortly after hi|S arrival he was killed in a 
skirmish, hut his sueessors, using Cebu as a base, ex- 
tended Spanish influence to Maynila, a Mohammedan 
village on the island of Luzon. Tlie christianizing of 
the Tndios was vapidly effected in the northern ]mrts of 
the Archipelago. Avhere Mohammedanism did not liave a 
