BY R. H. CAMBAGE, 205 



An interesting shrub was found on the top of the highest hill 

 to the north of the mine, and appears to be a variety of Correa 

 speciosa, Andr. It bears whitish-green flowers half an inch long, 

 each having four connate petals, giving the flower a tubular 

 form. The eight stamens are arranged so that there is one 

 extending along the centre of each petal, and one at each angle 

 formed by their adhering edges, the internal appearance of the 

 flower resembling a partially opened umbrella. This plant was 

 never seen by me in any other part of the western district, though 

 probably it is to be found there. 



South of the mine, and along the south boundary of portion 

 M.L.4, parish Jamieson, is an Acacia growing as little trees 8 or 

 10 feet high, with narrow viscid leaves No pods were to be 

 seen, and the flowers, which were only just forming in June, 

 appeared in their young state as almost sessile globular heads 

 arranged in pairs. The plant was not met with again, and the 

 incomplete specimens have not been identified. 



Acacia a7nblygona was found on a hill to the south, and A. 

 excelsa to the south-west. 



From the Wirlong Copper Mine to Gilgunnia is about 20 miles 

 in a general southerly direction, the formation consisting of 

 alternate slate and porphyry hills, and lowland made up from the 

 denudation of those elevations. The following trees and shrubs 

 were noticed : — Pittosporum phillyrceoides, Fusanus aciLniiuatus, 

 Casuarina Cambagei, 0. quadrivalvis (on a sandy ridge), Callitris 

 rohusta, Geijera parvijiora, Eremophila Mitchelli, E. longifolia, 

 E. latifolia, Melaleuca sp. (without flowers), Eriostenion difformis, 

 Apophtjllum anomalum, Capparis Mitchelli, Hakea leucoptera, 

 Heterodendron olecEfoliurn (with rather pale leaves), Exocarpits 

 aphglla, DodoncBa viscosa, var. attenuata, Bertya Cunninghaviii, 

 Templetonia sp. (without flowers), and Stercnlia diversifolia. 



The Belah hereabouts has green branchlets, and not that pale 

 appearance commonly seen between Bourke and Cobar. 



In this and many other places in the west there is a vine, 

 Ljjonsia eucalyptlfolia, which almost covers some of the large 



