BOTANY OF VICTORIA. 237 
arrived by your orders, so that I can draw a comparison in the botanical 
features of the Australian Highlands. 
In case the weather continues long enough dry, I may have an oppor- 
tunity, after my return from the Cabbage-tree country, to proceed to 
the sources of the Yarra or of the Latrobe river, as the almost impe- 
netrable scrub along its banks may conceal yet many a botanical novelty 
or rarity. 
Lake Wellington, Gipps’ Land, March 1st, 1855. 
Since I had the honour of addressing you (from Buchan, 22nd 
January, 1855), when giving you a short account of the alpine vegeta- 
tion of Mount Koskiusko, etc., I have been travelling for about a fort- 
night in the lower south-eastern part of Gipps' Land. I collected in 
the Cabbage-tree country Cissus Australasica beautifully in flower; but 
l was again too late for Celastrus Australis, Cocculus Harveyanus, 
and others, which are yet required in an early state of development. 
i The additional plants from this district were limited; Lobelia purpu- 
| rascens, a Camphoromyrtus, a Notelea, and Solanum pungetium are 
amongst them. On the coast, where a few Algæ were drifted up, I 
found the beautiful very fleshy Senecio spathulatus, Zoysia pungens, Pani- 
cum paradoxum, R. Br., and in morasses a Lysimachia, which appears to 
be identical with Z. vulgaris; it is certainly indigenous, and offers a 
new instance of the wide distribution of swamp or water-plants over 
the globe. The Lysimachia is accompanied by more than a dozen of its 
usual associates at home. Here, on the coast, and in various other 
parts of Gipps’ Land, I observed a Solanum, called by the aborigines — 
Gungang, which promises to become an additional fruit-shrub of our 
gardens. I have not yet obtained the perfect ripe fruit, which is said 
to be of excellent taste, and of which the natives are passionately fond. 
lt is next allied to S. laciniatum, yet widely different in more than a — 
dozen characters. I beg to give here at once the diagnosis.* On Lake ; 
King I found Zurybia viscosa ; a Loranthus, new to me, with nearly er 
bicular leaves, adhering to the stem and branches of Banksia integri- 
Jolia; Zostera marina, a fine Malvaceous plant with the aspect of Maka 
E . dei irum, ramus. alatis, i 
E dongato-kncecltie egenis v mediam verus loge Taciniatia sessilibus, fibus 
Corymbosis, calycibus semiquinquefidis ecarinatis, corollis brevissime a 
exerulescentibus, filamentis filiformibus antheras oblongas luteas oe se haan We 
magnis subglobosis viridibus.— This diagnosis will readily distinguish = 
niatum, which has an egg-shaped orange fruit of a disagreeable 
