It grows to a height of twenty to thirty feet, but is by no means a shady or even a pretty tree; it ranges over an enormous extent of Australia.

The scrub we now entered had been recently burnt near the edge of the plain; but the further we got into it, the worse it became.

At seven miles we came to stones, triodia, and mallee, a low eucalyptus of the gumtree family, growing generally in thick clumps from one root: its being rooted close together makes it difficult travelling to force one's way through.

It grows about twenty feet high.

The higher grade of eucalypts or gum-trees delight in water and a good soil, and nearly always line the banks of watercourses.