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Figs of five or six different species, Grevillea venusta, Br. (the 

 Silk Oak of the pine cutters,) and a great profusion of mag- 

 nificent trees. 



Beyond Canoe Creek, the Pine partially disappears from 

 both sides of the river, and its geographical situation is 

 occupied by enormous Figs. 



Two miles beyond Canoe Creek is an excellent quarry of 

 freestone, which is conveyed by water to Brisbane Town, a 

 distance of eleven miles. Its quality is excellent, being 

 granular, and when first cut quite soft, but exposure to the 

 air renders it as hard as granite. Following the course of 

 the river towards the termination of Oxley's Range, the 

 banks, which are comparatively divested of thickets, become 

 more open and picturesque, and the nearer the Bremer is 

 approached, the clearer is the country and the more precipi- 

 tous the banks. These are interspersed with excellent Gum 

 Trees, [Eucalypti,) and occasional patches of Currijong, or 

 Natives' Cordage Tree, {Hibiscus hetei'ophyllus,) which again 

 are overhung with a new and beautiful kind of Passion 

 Flower,* (Passijlora,) whose blossom is greenish yellow, while 



Brown, Air. Cunningham has wished should bear the name of another able 

 officer, whose valuable surveys have materially tended to a more correct know- 

 ledge of the vast territory of New Holland. It is to be regretted that we are as 

 yet ignorant of the flowers of this plant ; but it may be expected that they will 

 bear a, great resemblance to those of Flmdersia, for in the fruit there is a consider- 

 able affinity. In Flindersia, however, the capsule does not separate, as here, to 

 the very base, into 5 valves : the receptacles of the seed have only 2 seeds on 

 each side; and the seed is erect and winged only at one extremity. The re- 

 markable yellow colour of the wood has suggested the specific name. Its timber 

 is found to be very useful in various kinds of carpentry, and in the building of 

 boats, &c. 



Tab. LIV. Fig. 1, Branch with leaves and a ripe capsule in the act of burst- 

 ing, each valve carrying with it its own central portion of the receptacle to 

 which the seeds are attached. Fig. 2, One of the lobes or plates of the re- 

 ceptacle taken out from the valve. Fig. 3, Embryo. Fig. 4-, The same 

 with the cotyledons laid open to show the plumule . — all but Jigs. 3 and 4 of 

 the nat. size, — IF, J, H. 



* P. Herbertiana, Bot. Keg. t. 737, where it is mentioned as a discovery of 

 Mr. Cunningham in the interior of New South Wales. It belongs to the genus 

 Disemma, of Labillardiere and De Candolle. 



