

516 INDIGENOUS PLANTS IN THE COBAR DISTRICT, 



RUTACE-«. 



Geijera parviflora Lindl. "Wilga,"' Everywhere common. 

 Flowers almost throughout the year. Having heavy 

 pendulous foliage, it is the best shade- and shelter-tree 

 of the west, and hence is greatly sought after by 

 travellers. Stock, in these parts, will not eat the foliage. 

 The trees do best on flat country. I have made good 

 ink, free from grit, by boiling down the bark. 



Eriostemon difformis a. Cunn., var. teretifolia. On broken, 

 stony ridges at Elouera and Mount Boppy. It grows 

 in company with Eucalyptus Morrisii and E. viridis. 

 October-March. 

 E. SCABER Paxt. On the rocky plateau of Mount Grenfell. 

 Grows in gregarious patches. August. 



Phebalium glandulosum Hk. A beautiful shrub, which would 

 adorn any Sydney garden. At Cobar, it grows on 

 ridges, but is not particular to that situation. July. 



Meliace.e. 



Flindersia maculosa F.v.M. " Leopard-Wood Tree." A beau- 

 tiful, ornamental tree, with spotted bark, and festoons 

 of creamy flowers. Its fruits are collected by the resi- 

 dents in its neighbourhood, and made into numerous 

 ornaments — frames, pin-cushions, etc. P^abbits are very 

 fond of the bark, and, in dry seasons, I have seen dead 

 rabbits round about the vicinity of these trees; the bark 

 being indigestible, quickly kills them. On Devonian 

 ridges, principall}' about Amphitheatre, but I have seen 

 it on gravelly flats at Bourke. Flowers in November. 



CELASTRINEiE. 



Celastrus Cunninghamii F.v.M. Forty miles north of Cobar. 

 (In Mr. R. H. Cambage's Collection). 



Stackhousie^. 



Stackhousia viminea Sm. In shaded spots about Elouera. 

 February. 



