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are better understood, these numbers (especially those for 

 Queensland) will need considerable revision. For whilst there 

 is reason to believe that some plants now regarded as Victorian 

 will be found common to new South Wales and Victoria, so, on 

 the other hand, some known only from the Southern parts of 

 Queensland, will be found to extend to New South Wales, and 

 vice versa. The information, however, which has been afforded 

 by the Flora Australiensis and the Fragmenta Fhytographics 

 Australia, is highly useful in enabling us to compare the floras 

 of the respective colonies, and to form a tolerably correct idea of 

 the peculiarities of each. It appears that the Monopetalous 

 orders not represented in Queensland are the Ericaceae, common 

 to Victoria and New South Wales ; the Orobanchacece extending 

 from Victoria and South Australia to the Western Coast ; and 

 the Selaginece of West Australia. The orders not occurring in 

 Victoria are the Flumbagiiiece, Sapotacetz, Ebenacece, Styracece, 

 Hygrophyllacece, Acanthacece, and Pedalinece. In this part of the 

 world, the Epacrids usually take the place of Heaths, but 

 Wittsteinia vacciniacea, (F.v.M.) and Gaultheria hispida (It. Br.) 

 are found in the Southern parts of the Eastern Colonies, the 

 former in Victoria, and the latter in New South Wales and 

 Victoria. The limited range and number of Heathworts in 

 Australia and Tasmania may be regarded as indicating the relics 

 of a Flora which once connected the vegetation of Australia with 

 that of countries not separated from it by the ocean. For the 

 genus Gaultheria spreads not only over the mountainous regions 

 of America and Tropical Asia, but it extends through the 

 Antarctic Islands and New Zealand to the summits of the 

 mountains at the head of the Bellinger and the Southern 

 mountains of New South Wales. In Queensland, the Composites, 

 Apocyneoe, Asclepiadece, Rubiacece, Convolvulacea, and Solanece, 

 furnish a large number of species respectively; whilst the 

 Acanthacece, which in new South Wales are but poorly represented 

 (Ruellia australis, (B. Br.) and Eranthemum variabile, (R. Br.) 



