72 MR. J. G. O. TEPPER ON THE DISCOVERY 
Discovery of Tasmanian Plants near Adelaide, South Australia. 
By J. G. Orro Tepper, F.L.S. 
[Read December 7, 1882. ] 
In the early part of January 1882 I received an invitation from 
Prof. R. Tate to join in an excursion for the purpose of botani- 
cally examining a locality that had not been before visited, a 
request to which I cheerfully acceded ; and the following pages 
represent our joint results. 
This locality is situated some 40 miles south of Adelaide, 
among the low ranges covering the county of Hindmarsh (which 
forms a peninsula extending towards Kangaroo Island), and is 
almost in its centre, 
Starting from Willunga (30 miles S. of Adelaide), which Prof. 
Tate determined to be about 400 feet above sea-level, we crossed 
the Selliek's-Hill range, consisting of blue taleose shales and 
quartzites at a very high angle of elevation, and found the 
summit of the pass about 950 feet, the highest parts of the ridge 
rising perhaps 100-200 feet higher. The more elevated portion 
was covered by stringy-bark Eucalypts (Eucalyptus obliqua) and 
shrubs &c. similar to those about the capital. 
From here (2 miles E. of Willunga) the road descended 
gradually to the bed of the Meadows Creek, a watercourse of 
some length; but at this locality and time it did not show the 
least sign of water, or that a considerable body of water ever 
passed. This being undoubtedly the ease higher up, as we found 
subsequently by unmistakable signs, it must be inferred that the 
water finds its way under ground for some distance through the 
gravel and sand with which the valley is filled to an unknown 
depth. 
At a distance of 5-6 miles another ridge was crossed, evidently 
the watershed between St. Vincent’s Gulf and Encounter Bay 
with the Murray and its lakes. The road downwards on the E. 
decline followed the windings of a marshy rivulet with permanent 
fresh water, and scores of tiny springs oozing out into the drain 
alongside the road. The lower parts of the hillsides consisted 
of sands mixed with beautifully rounded pebbles of quartzite 
&c., presumably of Tertiary age. The vegetation here changed 
almost immediately, and almost at every step we met with plants 
rarely, or not at all, occurring nearer Adelaide. Thus Banksia 
