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July 10?^.— Convalescent. In the morning I investigated 

 Uie banks of the Brisbane near the town, and found sorae 

 plants of a superb and unpublished species of Bignonia ; also 

 a species of Limoniay and one of Ipomcea^ whose immense 

 tubers are here called Native Yams^ and are eaten by the 



natives- 



July 1 Ith. — Proceeded with Captain Logan and Mr. Cun- 

 ningham up the Brisbane River to the Limestone Station, on 

 the banks of the Bremer, which we reached at sunset, after 

 having rowed for eleven hours. The south side of the Bris- 

 bane, as far as Canoe Creek, is covered with forests of Pine 

 or Araucariay to a considerable extent. The north bank, as 

 far as Glenmoriston's Range, is principally open forest, not 

 reaching far, beyond which it is clothed with pine brushes, 



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as on the south. These forests contain immense quantities 

 of Yellow Wood, iOxleva xanthoxvla."^) and Tulw Wood, with 



• OXLEYA XANTHOXYLA, 



Nat. Ord. Mehace^. Trib. Cedreleje. Br, 



Gen. Char. Flores Iguoiu Capsula 5-locularis m valvis quinque us^ue ad 

 basin separabilisj dissepimentis e raargmibua introflexis valvarum, receptaculo 

 longitudinall demum libero, utrinque trispermo. Semina medio affi^a, undi- 

 q^ue alata* 



O. xanthoxyla. Cunningham, MSS, 



Hab. Ad ripas fluminis " Brisbane," ora orientali Novse Hollandiffi. D- ^' 



Cmniingham et D, C. Frasen 

 Arbor non raro 100-pedalis, diametro ad basin trunci 3-4- pedalis, valde ratnosa. 

 Folia impari-pinnata, nunc ternata, pleruinque 4-3 juga; foliolis remotis, 

 oppositis, laaceolatis, brevissime petiolulatis, integerrlmis^ acumiflatls, obtusi- 

 usculis, parallelim venosis, subcoriaccis, utrinque minute punctatis. Flar^^^ 

 bucusque ignoti. Capml(B mature 3-1 uncias loDg», oblongo-cyliB- 

 draceae, echinato-tuberculato, quinqueloculares, quinque- valves, dissepimentis 

 e valvarum marginibus introflexis, valvis ad basin usque solutis. ^^^^'^ 

 singulae divisa receptaculis 6, ex axi centrali progredientibus, plan»s» dors^J 

 incrassatis, demum liberis, utrinque trispermis. Semina ad marginem in- 

 toriorem receptaculi medio affixa, coinplanata, tindique, sed utraqne extremi- 

 tate pr^ecipue, raembrana alata cincta. Albumen nullum. Emhryo e cotyl^' 

 donibus duabus transversis, planiusculis, albls, carnosis, gland uloso-punctatis. 

 Radicula ad bilum seminis versa, epnnctata. Plumula compressa, punctata. 



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^*««.*,4,tiuii 1 uttve arawn up irom the iruit ana iuu«b" 



nearly discovered plant, which, being nearly allied tQ Flindetiia of the 



of this 



