INTERIOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 339 



infima parum latior. Corolla sesquipoUicaris, extus tomentoso-sericea, 

 in vivo rosea, intus alba, glabra, prseter lacinias puberulas et piles fla- 

 vicantes ad basin faucis et secus lineam mediam labii superioris. 

 Stamina glabra, antlieris longis medifixis longitudinaliter biloculari- 

 bus. Stylus basi glaber, apice in lamellas stigmatosas v. oblongas 

 hirtas divisus. Discus epigynus, brevis, pubescens, Frudus junior 

 usque ad medium calycis basi ciuctus, superne liber, pulvinatus. Se- 

 mina in quoque loculo perpauca (duo tantum ?), orbiculata et ut vi- 

 detur margiuata. 



Report of a Journey of Discovery into the Interior of Western 

 Australia, between Wi Septemhery 1848, and Brd February^ 1849; 

 btf J. S. Roe, Esq., Surveyor-General, 



{Continued from p, 247.) 



Feeliug disappointed that the surface coal (if any exists on this 

 shore) should hitherto have eluded our observation, after the plain in- 

 dications we had witnessed; I proceeded N.E. to search for any proba- 

 ble outcrop along the beach, and observed the sand-dunes of the coast 

 to be supported and partly formed by calcareous sandstone, in hori- 

 zontal layers or low cliffs, among which were many fragments of slaty 

 shaly rocks. To seaward of these, appearances were in favour of fresh 

 water being procurable in many places among the sand-hills, at a very 

 short distance below the surface, and at the end of a mile and a half a 

 remarkable spring of excellent water was found trickling from the bare 

 dunes at a considerable elevation above the beach. We found most 

 tempting little pools of clear water in the pui'e sand amongst the lime- 

 stone rocks, and our native said that good water was always procurable 

 here by scratching a small hole in the sand. 



The surface now became strewed with many fragments of thin slaty 

 rock, and at the end of a quarter of a mile I stood upon the summit of 



hill 



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whitish schistose rock, disposed in thin parallel plates. The whole 

 were highly glazed over, by the influence probably of the sea air, and 

 bristled up so sharply at an angle of 5° or 10° from the vertical, that 

 the hill was perfectly impassable for horses. The dip of the shales was 



