738 BOTANY OP THE SPRIXGSURE DISTRICT, 



Dodoncea viscosa and D. flifolia. The hop-like capsules of the 

 Dodonseas are used as hops, and are said to be a very good 

 substitute. The Composite are generally well represented every- 

 where. Cassinea Icevis is a pretty, slender shrub three to five 

 feet high, with small linear leaves, and cottony- white all over ; 

 it is not very plentiful, but we found another species (I believe 

 C. aculeata) very plentiful among the ranges. The leaves of 

 these shrubs are fragrant, and they deserve cultivating. The 

 straggling shrub, Olearia stellulata, and the tall, fragrant plant 

 Monenteles glandulosus are common in the bushes. Monenteles 

 sphacelatus, Wedelia aspera, Brachjcome graminea, Calotis hispidulum 

 C. scab iosi folium, and the pretty yellow-flowered Ixiolena tomentosa 

 make up our list of Composite plants. Of the Ampelidece or 

 Giape Vine family we only found Vitis oblonga, which climbs to 

 the tops of the tallest trees, and the herbaceous V. climatidea, 

 which produces small edible tubers. Like the Leguminosce the 

 MyrtacecB and the Composites we found the Euphorbiacece well 

 represented, but only by a few genera. The handsome fragrant 

 flowered shrub, Securinega leucopyrus is of common occurrence, 

 and the ubiquitous Petalostigma quadriloculare, the bark of which 

 is used as a febrifuge, is very common. 



The poison plant of the coast district, fSponia aspera) is very 

 plentiful among the ranges, and we found the middle-sized tree, 

 Bridelia tomentosa, in the scrub at the base of the mountain, near 

 Springsure. We found a species of Bertya which we had not 

 seen before, on one of the ranges ; the young branches are 

 tomentose, leaves oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, with a broad, almost 

 cordate base, half to one and a half inch long, on short petioles, 

 cottony-white underneath, the margins revolute, prominent 

 midrib, and numerous almost transverse veins ; young fruit 

 glabrous, ovoid, obtuse, sessile in the axils, with four or five 

 small, tomentose, calyx-like bracts ; we saw no flowers. We 

 found Euphorbia eremophila near Minerva Creek, and E. pilulifcra 

 and E. Drummondii are common at Springsure. The former 



