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July \Oth. — Convalescent. In the morning I investigated 

 the banks of the Brisbane near the town, and found some 

 plants of a superb and unpublished species of Bignonia : also 

 a species of Limonia, and one of IpomcBa, whose immense 

 tubers are here called Native Yams, and are eaten by the 

 natives. 



July 1 \th. — Proceeded with Captain Logan and Mr. Cun- 

 ningham up the Brisbane River to the Limestone Station, on 

 the banks of the Bremer, which we reached at sunset, after 

 havinff rowed for eleven hours. The south side of the Bris- 

 bane, as far as Canoe Creek, is covered with forests of Pine 

 or Araucaria, to a considerable extent. The north bank, as 

 far as Glenmoriston's Range, is principally open forest, not 

 reaching far, beyond which it is clothed with pine brushes, 

 as on the south. These forests contain immense quantities 

 of Yellow Wood, {Oxleya xanthoxyla*) and Tulip Wood, with 



* OXLEYA XANTHOXYLA. 

 Nat. Ord. Meliace^. Trib. Cedrele^. Br. 



Gen. Char. Flores ignoti. Capsula 5-locularis in valvis quinque usque ad 

 basin separabilis, dissepimentis e inarginibus introflexis valvarum, receptaculo 

 longitudinali demuin libero, utrinque trispermo. Semuia medio aflBxa, undi- 

 que alata. 



O. xanthoxyla. Cunningham, MSS, 



Hab. Ad ripas fluininis " Brisbane," ora orientali Novse HoUaudise. D. A. 

 Cunninijham et D, C, Fraser, 



Arbor non raro 100-pedalis, diametro ad basin trunci '3-4' pedalis, valde ramosa. 

 Folia impari-pinnata, nunc ternata, plerumque i-5 juga; foliolis remotis, 

 oppositis, lanceolatis, brevissime petiolulatis, integerrimisj acuminatis, obtusi- 

 usculis, parallelim venosis, subcoriaceis, utriaque minute punctatis. Flores 

 hucusque ignoti. Capsula matui'se 3-'t uncias longse, oblongo-cylin- 

 dracea;, echinato-tuberculata;, quinqueloculares, quinque-valves, dissepimentis 

 e valvarum marginibus introflexis, valvis ad basin usque solutis. Valva 

 singulse divisas receptaculis 5, ex axi central! progredientibus, planis, dorso 

 incrassatis, demum liberis, utrinque trispermis. Semina ad margincm in- 

 teriorem receptaculi medio aflixa, complanata, undique, sed utraque extremi- 

 tate pra;cipue, membrana alata cincta. Albumen nullum. Embryo e cotyle- 

 donibus duabus transversis, planlusculis, albis, carnosis, glanduloso-punctatis. 

 liadicula ad hiluui seminis versa, epunctata. Plumula compressa, punctata. 



Such is the description I have drawn up from the fruit and foliage of this 

 newly discovered plant, which, being nearly allied to Flindersia of the learned 



