138 DR. FEED. MULLER'S BOTAI^ICAL REPORT 



only the nature of the vegetation, but also the range ol its species. 

 I beg further to observe, that I include in the following remarks 

 all those plants which, during momentary interruptions of the 

 voyage to the Victoria Eiver, we were enabled to collect on the 

 islands on the N,E, coast, as well as those obtained during our 



stay at Moreton Bay. 



The plants thus a^cumxdated illustrate, I think, almost completely 

 the flora of Arnhein's Land, with the exception of the northern 



and 



Indian 



They comprise further a 



vicim 



of the dividing table-land or ranges between North Australia and 

 the interior, less completely the vegetation of the north-western 

 interior (as far as long. 20^18' south, and lat. 127° 30' east), 



whlf^h mnv hp- pmiairiprprl aa rkni'f nf tlip flnrn, nf Central Australia. 



formed during 



country 



wound the south-west, south, and south-east part of the Gulf o£ 

 Carpentaria, more or less remote from the coast, and finally the 

 plants of the eastern tropical and subtropical parts of New Hol- 

 land. My observations extend consequently from Point Pearce 



e most northern place visited 

 ith) to Termination Lake (oiu* 



30' 



20 



part 



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and south-east as far as Moreton Bay (lat. 27° 30', 

 long. 153° 20' east). Additions to the plants from these tracts of 

 country form those procured on the islands of North-east Australia 

 (from lat. 15° to lO"" 45' south) ; and although the collections from 

 these localities are very limited in land plants, they are of some 

 value, as throwing light upon the phycology of that part of the globe. 



at the conclusions advanced in the following pages, 

 I availed myself of E. Brown's general remarks, appended to 

 ^ Flinders'ft Voyage,' and to Sturt's work on ' Central Australia;' 

 of Allan Cunningham's appendix to King's 'Intertropical Survey of 

 Australia;' of the botanical notes scattered through Sir Thomas 

 Mitchell's work on * Tropical Australia,' and through Leichhardt's 

 ' Overland-Exnedition ;' and of Carron's ' Narrative of Kennedy's 



ion:* Besides these works, Mr, Brown's and DeCandoUe's 

 Prodromi ' are almost the only important sources of information 



intratropical zone of this country 





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