732 BOTANY OF THE SPEDfGSURE DISTRICT, 



more competent person, and proceed to enumerate the plants we 

 noticed during our excursion from Emerald to Springsure, a 

 distance of about fifty miles. We crossed the Nogoa River half 

 a mile from Emerald, in the bed and along the banks of which 

 we noticed large trees of Melaleuca trichostachya, Casuarina Cunn- 

 ingliamiana, Eucalyptus tereticomis and E. brachypoda. The track 

 then runs through a solitary patch of rich open volcanic downs, 

 covered with the yellow flowered Bulbine bullosa and the beautiful 

 red-flowered Pimelea hamatostackya, which formed a charming 

 contrast. Here and there, too, we noticed the pretty white- 

 flowered Hibiscus flculneus, the dwarf H. trionum, Plumbago zeylonica 

 and the curious little Indigo/era glandulosa with its small scarlet 

 flowers and winged pods. Half a mile farther on we enter a 

 dense Brigalow scrub, which continues unbroken for the next 

 fourteen miles. There we saw Carissa ovata very plentiful, the 

 black, milky berries of which are not to be despised. 



The term " Brigalow " is applied by Southern writers to Acacia 

 excelsa, which they evidently mistake for A. harpophjlla, which is 

 the true Brigalow, but it is easy to conceive how this error has 

 been propagated seeing that neither A. excelsa nor A. harpophylla 

 appear to occur in the southern part of the Colony. We noticed 

 several different kinds of trees and shrubs in this scrub, among 

 which are the following : Yentilago viminalis, a tree of 30 to 40 

 feet, ElcBodendron australe, 15 to 20 feet, Myoporumdeserti, alow 

 shrub, M. acuminatum, a shrub of 10 to 15 feet, Meter odendr on 

 oleifolium, a tree of 40 to 50 feet, Cassia australis, C. eremopliila, 

 Terminalia oblongata, a tree of 30 to 30 feet, Albizzia basaltica and 

 a few species of Eucalyptus. At the far off end of this scrub we 

 saw Acacia pendula or " Gidea " 20 to 30 feet high. We also 

 noticed the variety Amplexifolius of Loranthus longiflorus, which I 

 consider as a distinct species. It is not, as Bentham considers 

 probable, an inconstant form of the leaves of L. longiflorus, nor 

 does it occur on the same tree with that species. It is rare in 

 this district, but I have seen it on two or three occasions. The 



