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Mr. A. W. Mullen, of Bourke, says the blacks extract water from the roots 
by burning the branches back from the outside tips of the leaves, gradually forcing 
the moisture or sap back to the roots. 
Mr. Uawes, of Yandama, informed Mr. Mullen that the blacks forced the 
moisture back to the roots by burning the Branches, starting at the outside tips of 
the leaves. 
Size. A small, rather straggly tree, but often erect and shapely. 
6-12 feet high, 3-4 inches diameter, and occasionally of the size of small 
trees (Paroo River, N.S.W., J. L. Boorman). 
Up to 20 inches thick and 30 feet high ; near Collarendabri (S. W. Jackson). 
" A straggling, ill-grown tree, from 15-20 feet liigh, with nothing to 
recommend it except tbat its timber is rather pretty." (K. H. Bennett, Ivan hoe, 
vid Hay, N.S.W.) 
Habitat. Following are the records given in the Flora Australiensis : 
Queensland. Armadilla (Barton). 
New South Wales. Field's and Harrington's Plains, Lachlan River (A. Cunningham, Fraser) ; 
Plains near the Gwydir (Mitchell) ; Lachlan and Darling Rivers to the Barrier Range ( Victorian and other 
Expeditions) ; Mount Murchison (Bonney). 
Victoria. Murray Desert (F. Mueller}; N.W. Districts (L. Morton). 
South Australia. Head of Spencer's Gulf (R. Brown); Cooper's Creek (Murray). 
It is found in every State of the Commonwealth except Tasmania, and is a 
dry country species. Following are some specimens in the National Herbarium, 
Sydney : 
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
The type came from the " South Coast of New Holland, Flinders Land, in 
the margins of woods at the bases of mountains," which refers to what was later 
known as South Australia, probably the Flinders Range, Spencer's Gulf. 
Mount Lyndhurst (Max Koch), a locality very near the type; Killalpanina, 
Cooper's Creek, near Lake Eyre (correspondent of late A. W. Howitt). 
VICTORIA. 
Jeparit, in the north-west (St. Eloy D'Alton). 
NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Tibooburra, in the north-west angle of the State (O. E. Couch, No. 64). 
Fairly common, found almost exclusively on dry gravelly ridges, Nulty to 
Toorale, Paroo River (J. L. Boorman) ; Paldrumatta Bore, via Wilcannia (P. 
Corbett) ; Dunambral, vid ColJarendabri (C. J. McMaster) ; 40-50 miles north- 
west of Collarendabri (S. W. Jackson) ; Bourke (R. W. Peacock) ; Coolabah 
