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et steilatis asperatis. Folia 2-3 poll, longa, 1-1^ poll, lata, acuta 

 V. obtusiuscula, basi rotiindata, petiolo 3-4 lin. longo. Spiccs ter- 

 minales, strictse sed tenues, 4-6-pollicares. Braciea lanceolatse, 

 glandulis 3 lis foliorum similibus stipatse. Mores mascuU globosi, 

 breviter pcdicellati, laciniis eestivatione leviter imbricatis. Fetala 

 calycem ccquantia, villosa. Eecepiaculum viilosum. Calycis foemi- 

 nei laciniai oblougEe subdcntatse, capsulam hispidam subsuperantes. 

 From the neighbourhood of Obidos, on the Eio Negro. 

 10. C. (Brachystachys) hirtus, Lher. — A weed in the ro^as near San- 

 tarem. 



Beport of a Journey of Discovery into the Interior // Western 

 Australia, hetween Wt September^ 1848, and Srd February^ 1849; 

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



{Continued from f, 845.) 



January 1st, 1849. — Proceeding after breakfast to the examination 

 of this inlet upwards, in a westerly direction, we soon found the face 

 of the country so rugged, and broken into precipitous rocky gullies and 

 ravines, that to make any progress near its shore was a task of no easy 

 accomplishment. Matters grew even worse as we proceeded; and at 

 length, finding that only detriment and loss of time ensued, and that 

 our weary horses (who had lost twenty-five shoes amongst them) could 

 scarcely be got along at all over the stony surface, I encamped about 

 five miles from the moutli of the inlet, and next day proceeded S,W. 

 towards more accessible country behind Cape Knob. In that neigh- 



bourhood Bob, who might now be considered to have got again within 

 the limits of his own immediate country, informed me some wild cattle 

 had long been roaming at large, and I felt desirous of ascertaining 

 what had attracted them to the spot. In seven or eight miles we were 

 upon their tracks, amongst numerous small rocky lagoons and swamps, 

 in the midst of which were three small open hikes of good permanent 

 water, which seemed to have been their particular and favourite resort. 

 The tracks were very old, none of them having to all appearance been 

 made within the preceding twelve months. It is therefore needless to 

 say we saw none of the animals, the total number of whom we now 

 learnt did not exceed three. The lakes and lagoons here alluded to 



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