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suck the honey from them: they call them Woadjar. About 
five miles after entering the district of Guangan, we met 
with a Melaleuca which we had never seen or heard of before; 
it grows about two feet in diameter; I send you specimens of 
its bark. By inserting the point of a sharp stick under the 
layers of cuticle, a considerable quantity of water rushed out; 
Icollected a cupfull of it, but found it as bitter as gall. If 
this Melaleuca proves to be a new species, it may well be 
called amara; we saw native huts covered with its bark. 
August 3d.—I have been another excursion to Guangan, 
accompanied by a native called Yarangan, to examine the 
banks of the Salt River. The bed of this river is from twenty 
to thirty feet wide, the water is now standing in it in pools; 
"When these pools become dry, salt, eight or nine inches in 
thickness and of good quality, is found in their beds. On 
this journey we travelled east by north, and met in about 
. twenty-five miles the Salt River just before it enters the 
Brassy country. The Hibiscus hakeafolius of Hügel, is plenti- 
ful on its banks; and a fine species of Grevillea growing eight 
or ten feet high, with fan-shaped bifarious branches, and long 
quinquefid leaves: the plant grows in a pyramidal form like 
a young Spruce Fir tree, the old seed-vessels appear as if they 
had been downy. I met with some seed-vessels on the fine 
Yellow Grevillea I sent you from Guangan; they are flat for 
this genus, and covered with short hairs ; three other Grevil- 
lee which I had not seen before, were growing on tbe banks 
ofthe Salt River. I send you bits of them, but they were — 
only coming into blossom, and without seed-vessels. Before 
We entered Guangan, we crossed some very rugged iron- 
Stone hills with sandy valleys between them, thickly clad with 
shrubs of various sorts. On the slope of one of these hills, I 
found a species of Banksia which I had not noticed elsewhere, 
its leaves are entire and glaucous, with sharp points; I send 
you the old flowers and seed-vessels : the plant grows from two 
to three feet high in spreading bushes. The beautiful pink 
of the country. These birds come in flocks to the neighbour- — 
, named after Mr Leadbetter, is common in this part — . 
