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wind and fine weather. Their course was up the east coast, 

 and the first place they touched at was Port Bowen. Of 

 the botany of this place Mr Cunningham says — " On the 

 grassy shores, besides a stunted species of Eucalyptus (allied 

 to Angophora lanceolafd), Banksia compar, a tree twenty feet 

 high, bearing flowers and fruit, afforded me specimens with 

 good seeds; but much of the botany of several parts of this coast 

 whereon I had landed last year within the Tropic, appeared 

 here very general; and amongseveral of its finer subjects I per- 

 ceived the ^/?/a;/a of Cape Cleveland, Mahageminata, Mimusops 

 parvifuUa of Rodd's Bay, and Sanialum venosum, in shaded situ- 

 ations, bearing young fruit ; with Carissa ovata, still, however, 

 in no stage of fructification. We (Mr Hunter, the surgeon 

 of the Mermaid, accompanied him) passed through brushes 

 of Tristania sp. of Repulse Bay and Endeavour River, among 

 which I gathered specimens of the following genera: — Hovea 

 (allied to H. longifolia), Lasiopetaliim sp., Leucopogon (prob- 

 ably L. imbricaius, Br.), Psychotria, sp,, Xerotes arenaria? 

 beneath rocks. Eucalyptus, two species, Pleurandra, allied to 

 P. ericifolia, Br., Cumesperma latifolia, SeneciOy Gnaphalium, 

 Croton^ Tephrosia? Azorella, Bignonia australis, rich in 

 flower, beautified many a bare rock, with which I detected 

 a species of Acacia, not previously seen ; it was covered with 

 yellow capitula of flowers, so common to this fine genus. 

 Daphne Indica occasionally appeared in flower, beneath the 

 shade of large rocks, flourishing exceedingly, the more in 

 proportion as these situations afforded humidity, so genial to 

 such exuberant growth. I know no plants of all the Australi- 

 an Proteacecs upon which one's eye rests with so much plea- 

 sure (excepting our colonial Telopea), as it did upon a splen- 

 did arborescent Grevillea, (G. Banksii, R. Br.,) %vhich now 

 clothed the hills with the abundance of its kind, and now de- 

 corated the declivities with the gay richness of its crimson 

 blossoms. Upon descending upon the shore, and doubling a 

 bluff rocky point, covered with Dendrobium undulatum, and 

 a few Filices, gathered last voyage, we passed a line of beach, 

 abounding with the common purple Dolichos, Ipomea mart- 



