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I have received it from Quambone, near Coonamble (0. E. Friend, who has 
been most kind in supplying material). 
Wild Lemon, 6 feet high. Gilgandra (R. H. Cambage, 1142). 
Then we go north 
Cambo Cambo Station, 40-50 miles north-west of Collarenebri (Sid W. Jackson) ; 
Wee Waa (G. A. Withers); " Wild Lemon," Eaton's Ponds, Biniguy (Gordon Burrow); 
Moree (W. W. Froggatt). 
Dense growth up to 15 feet. Fruit used by settlers for jam. " Wild Lime or 
Lemon." Benarba Station, 18 miles south of Mungindi (C. T. Kerry see photo). 
Queensland. Goondiwindi (H. J. Rumsey). Not far from Mungindi, New 
South Wales; Tambo (collected for James Pink, quoted by Swingle); on the 
Condamine River, 12 miles from Chinchilla Railway Station (John Williams, quoted 
by Swingle); Dalby (Dr. T. L. Bancroft). 
Then we come to Mitchell's type locality, which has been already described, 
and is near Roma. 
The following localities are much further north : 
Warrego district (F. M. Bailey); " Brigalow Scrub," south of Burdekin River, 
between lat. 20 deg. and 21 deg. S. (Mueller); head of Suttor River (correspondent of 
Kew). 
Hardiness of the Desert Kumqnat as regards cold. At vol. ii, p. 91, 
Journ. Agric. Research, Swingle gives a most painstaking account of the extremes of 
climate given with records of the collection of this species in western Queensland. 
He adds, " It would not be surprising, in view of these scanty records taken at random, 
if temperatures as low as 5 deg. F., or even zero Fahrenheit, would be found to occur 
occasionally in the region where the desert kumquat grows wild. Such low temperatures 
might injure the leaves and perhaps the smaller twigs, but recovery would probably 
be rapid and complete. Certainly no other edible citrus fruit is native to any region 
where it is exposed to such severe cold weather." 
Drouth (Drought) Resistant Adaptations of the Desert Kumquat.- 
This is emphasised in the very title of the paper, " Eremocitrus, a new genus of hardy, 
drouth-resistant citrous fruits from Australia," by Walter T. Swingle in Journ. of Agric. 
Research (U.S.A.), vol. ii. From this paper the following notes are taken : 
'' It is undoubtedly the most cold-resistant of all the evergreen citrous fruits." 
(Sir Thomas Mitchell, who found this plant, spent a cold night when he discovered it, 
but the locality is only exceptionally cold.) 
It is the only member of the sub-family Citratre that shows marked adaptation 
to desert climates. 
It is a gray-green shrub or small tree, looking not unlike a large thorny sagebush 
(Artemisia. J.H.M.), having leaves centric in structure, with appressed hairs, stomates, 
and a very thick-walled epidermis on both surfaces and palisade tissue just beneath. 
