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hills, and found a fine stream of water escaping over llic 

 beach (sands), from which our people filled their haricas. 

 As this operation would employ an hour, I determined upon 

 an ascent to the summit of the lofty range of hills, whose 

 bare naked slopes seemed however not likely to afford me 

 much scope for botanical research. Velleia pubescens is fre- 

 quent on these hills, where also I gathered fine expanded 

 flowers of Jacksonia thesioides, a small pigmy plant, and species 

 oilndigofera. Clitoria, Hibiscus, a Grevillea (allied to G. Chry- 

 sodendron), and a shrubby species of Eucalyptus^ were the 

 more general plants observed till I had reached the ridge, 

 whence descend certain deep ravines densely clothed with a 

 luxuriant vegetation ; these, together with the elevated cavi- 

 ties between what may be termed the shoulders of the hills, 

 exhibit a vast variety of fine plants ; generally however of 

 species heretofore collected. A tree belonging to Urticece, 

 with large radiated laurel-shaped leaves, Seaforthia elegans, 

 Hellenia cctrulea (whose luxuriant growth reminded me of 

 the beautiful Heliconics of South America), and some Fici 

 previously observed, were the most prevalent plants in these 

 shaded thickets. On a second visit I detected Melastoma 

 Banksii, bearing flowers and ripe fruit ; Wormia alata, a tree 

 delighting in humid valleys, was remarked on the rising 

 ground verging on the swamps which were full of Ceratopte- 

 ris ilialictr aides, (C. Australasica, Cunn. Mss.) Large speci- 

 mens of Heritiera australis, with Pandanus pedunculatus in 

 fruit, form by a union of their branches on either side of the 

 channel of these streams, an arbour-work, essentially neces- 

 sary to prevent that excess of evaporation, which otherwise 

 would daily take place in so warm a climate. In tracing a 

 dry gully leading from the hills, I gathered seeds of Calh- 

 carpa peduncidata, specimens with fruit of a tree of Myrsi- 

 nece^ rising twenty feet high, and having an elliptical drupe; 

 a species of Cylista overran the bushes ; also Doodia media, 

 and Lygodium semibipinnatum. Upon passing the swamps, 1 

 rose to the sandy lidges, and gathered the following plants 

 and seeds ; Acacia fiumifusa, Glycine lampocarpay Cleroden- 



