"The natives of the Wimmera prepare a luscious drink from the laap, a sweet exudation from the leaf of the mallee (<i>Eucalyptus dumosa</i>"
1854. E. Stone Parker, `Aborigines of Australia,' p. 25:
"The immense thickets of <i>Eucalyptus dumosa</i>, commonly designated the `Malle' scrub."
1857. W. Howitt,' Tallangetta,' vol. ii. p. 2:
"This mallee scrub, as it is called, consists of a dense wood of a dwarf species of gum-tree, <i>Eucalyptus dumosa</i>. This tree, not more than a dozen feet in height, stretches its horizontal and rigid branches around it so as to form with its congeners a close, compact mass."
186. W. Howitt, `Discovery in Australia, vol. i. p. 214 (Oxley's Expedition in 1817):
"The country, in dead flats, was overspread with what is now called mallee scrub, that is, the dwarf spreading eucalyptus, to which Mr. Cunningham gave the specific name of <i>dumosa</i>, a most pestilent scrub to travel through, the openings betwixt the trees being equally infested with the detestable malle-grass."
1883. `The Mallee Pastoral Leases Act, 1883,' 47 Vict. No. 766, p. 3:
"The lands not alienated from the Crown and situated in the North-Western district of Victoria within the boundaries set forth in the First Schedule hereto, comprising in all some ten millions of acres wholly or partially covered with the mallee plant, and known as the Mallee Country, shall be divided into blocks as hereinafter provided."
1890. `The Argus,' June 13, p. 6, col. 2: