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3. There are probably two distinct species, (a) having depressed globular fruit 
with a tendency to become lobed, and (&) having ovoid-oblong fruits three to 
four times as large." 
Plate XLV, fig. 1, " Year Book U.8. Dept. Agric,, U.S.A., 1911, shows variation 
in the fruits. There is indeed considerable variation in this species in this respect. 
The fruit is commonly about half an inch in diameter. It produces an agreeable 
beverage from its acid juice. A fair preserve may be made of the fruit. The aborigines 
used to eat it. Sending some of a distinctly lemon shape, and about the above size, 
Mr. C. Marriott, of Dubbo, remarked, " The fruit should be a trifle larger than the 
specimens forwarded, but owing to the dry conditions they are not as large as usual. 
Jam is sometimes made from the fruit, and cool drinks." 
In Swingle's exhaustive account of. the species (op. cit., p. 95) he gives an account 
of the " Uses of the fruits of the Desert Kumquat," and quotes Leichhardt (" Overland 
Expedition to Port Essington," p. 77) : 
" Yesterday in coming through the scrub, we had collected a large quantity of 
ripe native lemons, . . . we made them into a dish very like gooseberry-fool; 
they had a very pleasant acid taste and were very refreshing. They are of a light yellow 
colour, nearly round, and about half an inch in diameter; the volatile oil of the rind 
was not at all disagreeable." 
Timber. The wood is close-grained, and takes a fine polish. It is of a 
bright yellow colour, with numerous brown streaks or veins. 
Size. It is only a shrub or small tree, and its average height may be given as 
8 to 15 feet, and diameter 2 to 6 inches. Speaking of the Dubbo district, Marriott 
says it " grows to about 6 feet or 7 feet high, and is a bit bushy." 
Habitat. Following are the localities recorded in the " Flora Australiensis" : 
Queensland, Broad Sound (R. Brown); Maranoa River (Mitchell); Suttor and Burdekin 
Rivers (F. Mueller); Port Denison (Fitzalan). 
It is a dry country species and hitherto not previously recorded out of 
Queensland and New South Wales. 
New South Wales. ' Lower branches droop while the tipper ones are upright." 
Mootwingie Ranges, 80 miles north of Broken Hill. (Dr. MacGillivray, through 
A. Morris, No. 228.) 
The above is by far the most western locality known to me in New South Wales, 
and its discovery there should lead to search for it being made in other western 
localities, and also in South Australia. 
' It is found growing in small patches scattered through the Western district. 
[ know of.it being found at the undermentioned places : Buddah Lake, near Trangie, 
Dun-away, Farrendale, Warren and Bullagnan." (District Forester C. Marriott, of 
Dubbo, writing in 1909.) 
