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A. Thozet says the growing stem was eaten by the Queensland blacks, and he 
differentiates this from the " white part of the undeveloped leaves," which he also 
says is eatable. 
Exudations. The gum, exuding from this tree, is sucked like a lolly by the 
Morehead River, Queensland, blacks. (A. Thozet.) 
Size. Height from 20 to 120 feet, 'diameter 12 to 18 or 24 inches. 
Habitat. Following are the localities given in the " Flora Australiensis " : 
" Queensland. Woods (W. Hill) ; Rockhampton (Moore's Creek Range) (Thozet). 
New South Wales. Illawarra (Ralston). 
Victor '.a. Snowy Range (F. Mueller). I refer this here on the authority of 
F. Mueller, Fragm. V. 19. There is only a single small leaf preserved in his herbarium 
which looks somewhat different." (The locality is thousands of feet below the Snowy 
Range, in deep, humid valleys.) 
Victoria. The following two references are to Bentham's or rather Mueller's 
" Snowy Range " locality : 
1. J. Stirling, " Notes on the Physiography of the western portions of the County 
of Croajingalong," Proc. Roy. Hoc. Viet, i (New Ser.), 89 (1889). 
The occurrence of the Cabbage Palm (Livistona austmlis) on Cabbage-tree Creek, near Orbost. where 
it grows to a height of over 100 feet, is also a remarkable feature in the vegetation of the area. The isolation 
of this species from its tropical home in a humid valley in the temperate zone, requires further elucidation 
at the hands of botanists, or of those interested in the geographical distribution of plants. I am inclined 
to consider it as a survival of a once tropic vegetation which covered South-Eastern Australia in earlier 
Pliocene times, and which was destroyed by the subsequent glacial action, of which there are not wanting 
evidences in South-Eastern Australia since Miocene times. 
2. Baldwin Spencer and C. French, in Viet. Nat. vi, 8, 9, with two illustrations 
(May- June, 1889). 
At. p. 7 Cabbage-tree Creek (referred to by Stirling) is mentioned, and at p. 9 
the Palms are referred to. Figures 2 and 3 are sketches of the Palms, but some of the 
leaves are sketch ily drawn, being represented as pinnate rather than palmate, and 
so the warning of Mr. Botting Hemsley in the Sydney Mail of 19th March, 1892, 
(803 p. 355), is necessary. 
Spencer and French say : ' The curious point about these particular ones 
(Palms) is that they are only found in this one spot, within a short distance of the sea- 
coast, in Victoria, and considerably to the south of the region to which they are other- 
wise confined." The question of the distribution of the Palm is then gone into, both 
geologically and in reference to conveyance by animals and man. 
New South Wales. It occurs in well-sheltered gullies from south to north of 
this State, and the following are some localities from near the Victorian to the 
Queensland border : 
Southern slopes of the Dromedary Mountain, between Tilba and Cobargo, county 
of St. Vincent, the furthest south they occur in any quantity (District Forester, Moruya). 
