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In Mueller'* " Report on the plant, collected during Mr. BalAage's Expedition 
to South Australia in 1858," we have at p. 17 :- 
ciirlosed; ovary tomentose. 
In the Brigalow Scrubs from the Gilbert River to the Upper Darling. 
H iir U,l,, k> . eaves Hi inches long, opaque. Calyx 3-4 lines, corolla about J inch long; throat , 
th,. lutt.T with brown-yellow dots. Young fruit ovate. 
Bentham himself more fiUly described it as follows :- 
A tall shrub or small tree of 10 to 30 feet, glabrous, viscid, and strongly scented. 
Lea*, linear-lanceolate, obtuse or with a hooked point, entire, contracted into a petiole, 1-nerved, 
1-2 inches long. 
Floicers solitary in the axils, on pedicels of 3 to 4 lines. 
Calyx-segments oblong or cuneate oblong, obtuse, membranous, veined, glabrous or pubescent 
on the edges, 4 to 5 lines long. 
Corolla about | inch long, the cylindrical part of the tube about 2 lines the broad part above 
twice as long, the middle lower lobe broader than the others, shortly 2-lobed, woolly n 
Stamens shorter than the corolla. 
Ovary very woolly, with three or four superposed pairs of ovules in each cell. 
Fruit ovoid, abnost acuminate, half as long as the calyx, the exocarp thin and membranous the 
endocarp separating into four nuts each with one or two superposed seeds. (B.M. v, 9 
Botanical Name. EremophUa, from two Greek words eremos, a desert, and 
pkilos (a), fond of ; MitoWi, in honour of Colonel Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, 
who was Surveyor-General of New South Wales from 1827 to his death in 1855. He 
collected this plant in his expedition to Western Queensland in 1846. Particulars 
of his life will be found in my " Records of Australian Botanists," in Journ. Roy. Soc. 
N.S.W., xlii, 76(1908). 
Vernacular Name. It is commonly known as " Budda," or, by those who 
appreciate the niceties of aboriginal pronunciation, as " Budtha." This aboriginal 
name has been preponderatingly taken up as a vernacular. 
A supposed contradistinction has been attempted between " White-barked" 
and " Black-barked Budda." Some years ago Mr. Lachlan Campbell, of " Mount 
Brandon," Collarendabri, wrote to Mr. C. J. McMaster, the Chairman of the Western 
Lands Board, as follows : " I am posting you some leaves and a little piece of bark 
off budda tree, by the same mail as this letter. I got the leaves and bark off the trees 
about 20 yards apart on the red ridge close to where I got some rung years ago, and all 
the Marki-h-barked budda I got ringbarked died, and nearly all the whitish-barked 
budda suckered, and what was cut down grew stronger than ever. They may be the 
aame sort of tree, only the blackish-barked budda the older tree." 
