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declared the torrents that pass through it in the rainy season. 

 As far as we advanced up this gully, we found small detached 

 holes of fresh clear water, of an excellent quality, that ap- 

 peared to be draining from one pool to another below, pass- 

 ing through luxuriantly green patches of grass, at once pleas- 

 ing to the eye, and affording food on those barren sliores to 

 the kangaroo, whose usual appearances were observed on the 

 rocks. In these humid situations, I gathered specimens of 

 Convolvulus quadrivalviSf and Senecio sp. Two species of 

 Capparis abound in the brushes, of the same kind as those 

 seen at Vansittart Bay last year; the arborescent gouty spe- 

 cies of this genus, {Capparis gibbosa, A. Cunn.,) which was 

 first observed on the shores of Cambridge Gulf, is frequent 

 here, growing to an enormous size, and laden with large 

 fruit. I measured the stem of one very remarkable tree of 

 this species, and found it near twenty-eight feet in circum- 

 ference, and scarcely twenty-five feet high. Some of the 

 trees were in the earlier stages of vernation, the extremities 

 of the naked branches appearing green, and one that I 

 opened exhibited the character of folia quinata. The usual 

 Proteaceous plants, Hakea arhorescens, and Grevillea mimo- 

 soides, were remarked on the hills, bearing fruit; where also 

 we noticed a species of Cycas, in clumps. In tracing the 

 water-gully between the hills, I gathered a few specimens, 

 chiefly in situations extremely rocky and somewhat shaded. 

 Centunculus polygonoides, Pittospore(B, a large round bushy 

 shrub, having the habit of Bursaria, with the fruit of Pittos- 

 porum, covered with a close tomentum. On a small grassy 

 patch that had escaped the ravages of the flames, I observed 

 a fine pinnated-leaved Acacia {A. suberosa), found in an im- 

 perfect state last year at Encounter Cove, Vansittart's Bay. 

 It bore pods which yielded some good seeds. A tree, of the 

 natural family Urticees, related to Antidesma, afforded me 

 flovverinf specimens; Sersalisia obovata of Endeavour River, 

 was remarked among the rocks, bearing neither flowers nor 

 fruit. Acacia stigmataphylla forms brushes, clothing the 

 declivities, having generally the last year's pods ; an Aspara- 



