‘...system of roots, growing in loamy watercourses. About the size of a man's fist...broken into small sections resembling hazel-nuts of pale-brown colour and with tissue-thin skin which slipped off…to reveal a creamy substance, firm yet pliable. Soaked in water it had a soporific effect and...[assisted in childbirth ‘... a scent [of] strong vanilla when…dug out of earth...called by us the 'nutty' root because of its rich looking cream interior …divided into bits…about the size of a small onion…chewed by the gins for any severe pain...[found] in little gullies…between red sandhill country and white flooded flats of the Diamantina [,] about Kilapininna (S.A.)[,] around Lake Eyre and [on the edge of] the Simpson Desert (Glengyle)…the gins…can spot it at once, by a ragged little clump of grey-leafed twigs or by seemingIy dead twigs...not ready for use until the leaves and twigs dry off. The whole lot would fit into a medium sized tea cup.’