310 REPORT ON THE 
Australia,—with all those impenetrable and intricate masses of parasite 
and climbers overrunning the highest trees, and with so many typical 
forms never or but rarely seen beyond the torrid zone, unless when 
sheltered against the cold and under the favourable influence of the 
mild humid atmosphere of the coast tracts. The stately Corypha Palm, 
or Livistonia australis, one of the “princes of the vegetable world,” 
attains here the height of more than sixty feet, and may be deemed 
one of the most useful productions of our flora, furnishing in its young 
leafstalks and terminal bud tlie Palm Cabbage, a food equally whole- 
some and delicious, whilst the fan-shaped leaves are eagerly collected 
for the manufacture of hats. The occurrence of so many plants of 
a really tropical type, as Cissus Australasica, Cocculus Harveyanus, 
Celastrus australis, Tristania laurina, Acmena floribunda, Morinda 
jasminoides, Tylophora barbata, Marsdenia rostrata, Smilax spinescens, 
Eustrephus latifolius, etc., bears a sufficient testimony not only to the 
geniality of the climate, but also to the capability of the soil in this 
district. Transitions to the Flora of New South Wales were here 
perceptible everywhere. 
After a short journey to the Buchan River, I returned home, in 
consequence of the early commencement of the rainy season, in the 
middle of April, having traversed the country in various directions to 
the extent of more than 2500 miles. How far the Flora of Vie- 
toria has been enriched during this journey, may be observed by 
referring to the annexed enumeration, which comprises, in addition 
_ to those plants brought forward in my last year's Report, 391 Dicoty- 
ledoneg and 105 Monocotyledonee, of which nearly the fourth part 
was formerly unknown. Thus also 130 genera and 20 Natural Orders 
. of Cotyledonous plants have been incorporated into our flora, one 
. of the latter, Menispermee, formerly foreign to Australia. Ten of the 
additional genera were also previously unknown in this part of the 
globe (Myosurus, Cocculus, Hutchinsia, Ammannia, Glinus, Celastrus, 
Centella, Erigeron, Antennaria, Udora); whilst six others are either 
entirely new or hitherto undescribed (Asterolasia, Halothamnus, Erio- 
chiton, Osteocarpum, Juncella, Electrosperma). Others again were pre- 
viously. thought to be confined to Van Diemen’s Land, i®eether with 
some here also indigenous Mammalia, amongst the latter the Tasma- 
nian Hyæna (Thylacinus cynocephalus), and the Tiger-cat (Dasyurus 
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