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No. 145. Fart XXXIX. 
Acacia salicina Lindl. 
THE COOBA. 
(Family LEGUMINOS^E : MIMOS^E.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
" Motherumbung " (Acacia salicina). (Photo by H. Billington, Moree, N.S.W.) 
No. 168. Part XL VI. 
Eucalyptus Behriana F.v.M. 
THE BROAD LEAF MALLEE. 
(Family MYRTACE^;.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
Eucalyptus Behriana. Warunda, Hundred of Mortlock, South Australia. (Photo, W. Gill.) 
For a fuller botanical account of this species, see my Crit. Rev. genus Eucalyptus, 
Part x. 
No. 172. Part XL VII. 
Eucalyptus populifolia Hook. 
THE BIMBLE BOX. 
(Family MYRTACE.E.) 
PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION. 
" Bibble Box " or " Shining-leaf Box " (Eucalyptus populifolia). (Photo, H. Billington, Moree, 
N.S.W). 
For a fuller botanical account of this species, see my Crit, Rev. gznus Eucalyp'.us, 
Part x. 
Part LI. 
Appendix. Aboriginal Method of obtaining Water. 
Following is a letter from the veteran explorer W. H. Tietkens, in reference to 
Mr. Tietkens' quoted statement at p. 15, vol. vi :- 
The tree that the little fellow found was an ordinary Oak (presumably C. Fraseriana, Miq. J.H.M.), 
not Casuarina Decaisneana. It was at least four chains distant as you say ; the intervening ground was 
covered with a dense scrub, and it was quite impossible for the boy to have seen lower than the middle 
branches of the tree. I examined the ground around, also the- tree, but could find nothing different between 
this one and many others growing around ; in fact it was a clump of Oaks. 
The little fellow had not been with whites very long, so I was unable to question him as to how h e 
could tell this one from many others growing around and from that distance; there was not an instant of 
hesitation ; he slid down off the tall walking camel and ran straight to the tree, and before I had stopped 
the camels and arrived at the spot, he had one water root exposed, and in a few minutes we both had a 
foot long of root 2 inches in diameter upended and having a cool drink. I could understand it h>d it 
grown man, but for a ch,i!4 of 8 or JO it seemed rather wonderful, 
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