VEGETATION OF VICTORIA. 809 
with the Alpine Flora of Van Diemen’s Land; although the following 
series of its plants may indicate its partial identity with both :—Ranun- 
culus pimpinellifolius, R. scapiger, Geranium brevicaule, Acacia bossia- 
oides, Hovea gelida, Oxylobium alpestre, Anisotome glacialis, Didiscus 
humilis, Celmisia astelifolia, Eurybia megalophylla, Brachycome nivalis, 
B. multicaulis, Ctenosperma alpinum, Ozothamnus Hookeri, O. cinereus, 
Antennaria nubigena, Senecio pectinatus, Goodenia cordifolia, Gaultheria 
hispida, Leucopogon obtusatus, Lissanthe montana, Richea dracophylla, 
Prostanthera rotundifolia, Euphrasia ‘alpina, Gentiana Diemensis, G., 
montana, Grevillea australis, Pimelea gracilis, Podocarpus montana, 
Exocarpus humifusa, Juncus falcatus, Restio australis, Oreobolus Pumi- 
lio, Lomaria alpina, Polytrichum dendroides, ete. Here all these plants 
are alpine, notwithstanding some of them descend in Tasmania to the 
low land. But to those already known I had the gratification of add- 
ing several new species, probably peculiar to the Alpine Flora of Aus- 
tralia, namely :— PAebalium phylicoides, Asterolasia trymalioides, Mnia- 
rum singuliflorum, Bossiæa distichoclada, Centella cuneifolia, Anisotome 
simplicifolia, Eurybia alpicola, Ozothamnus planifolius, Gnaphalium alpi- 
genum, Hierochloe submutica, Glyceria Hookeriana, Agrostis gelida, ete. 
From the Coborras Mountains I continued travelling over a large 
tract of subalpine country in a north-easterly direction to the Snowy 
River, as far as the boundaries of New South Wales. Of several 
curious plants observed in the valleys of this stream, I ought to men- 
tion Brachychiton populneum (Sterculia heterophylla, 4il. Cunn., not 
Beauv.), a beautiful tree from the tropics, growing with its turgid stem 
out of the bare granite rocks, washed by the tremendous floods of the 
melting snow. With many of its usual companions, it reaches here 
its most southerly limits. The seeds of this Stercu/ia were used for 
food in Dr. Leichhardt’s expedition, and * produced not only a good 
beverage with an agreeable flavour, but also appeared to be very 
nourishing.” d 
By a circuitous route along the Tambo to the south, and steering 
thence once more easterly, I reached, in the middle of March, the 
country beyond the mouth of the Snowy River, the most southerly —— 
locality in Which Palms exist in the Australian Continent. The vege- 
tation here assumes, at a latitude nearly equal to that of Melbourne, 
at 37° 30' S., entirely a tropical character, with its shady groves of | 
trees producing dark horizontal foliage,—so rarely to be met with in 
