690 BOTANY OF THE INTERIOR OF NEW SOUTH WALES, 



Some trees of Cooba were noticed with a diameter of two feet. 

 Only a few trees of A. dealbata were seen, but they were large 

 and had the same silvery appearance that is so constant a feature 

 on the highlands. In coming from Bourke these were the first 

 of typical A. dealbata noticed. They were on the south side of 

 the river at about 17 miles below Forbes, and were flowering in 

 the first week in August, 1899. I have never seen any others 

 within fifty miles of this spot. 



From Forbes to Pinnacle Mines, a distance of about 20 miles 

 southerl}^, the country is level, and only those species were seen 

 which belong to the flat country. Casuarina Cunninghamiajia 

 is found only on the Lachlan close to Forbes, but C. Luehmanni 

 and C. Cambayei are noticed at intervals along the roadside. 

 Myoporicm deserti, Callitris 7'obusta, Eremoj)hila Mitchelli, Hetero- 

 dendron oleoifolium and Geijera parvijlora (Wilga) are also dis- 

 tributed throughout this stretch of country. 



The Acacias noticed were : — A. dealbata (green variety), A. 

 homalophylla, A. Oswaldi and A. petidula which is here and to 

 the southward more generally known as Boree than M3^all, the 

 latter name, as well as Yarran, being often applied to A. homalo- 

 phylla. 



Uucalyptus rostrata is to be seen near the Lachlan and on 

 many of the swamps to the southward. E. melliodora, E. Wooll- 

 siana and E. conica are common along this road, while E. hemi- 

 2Jhloia var. albens is seen only when nearing the Pinnacle Mine 

 on a slight rise. 



About three miles south-easterly from the mine is a very con- 

 spicuous hill known as the Pinnacle Mountain, which may be dis- 

 tinctly seen from the top of Canoblas near Orange on a clear day. 

 It appears to be an outlier of the Devonian period, though in the 

 course of a walk across it I found no fossils to prove this. On 

 the northern side it ends abruptly, forming a few small sandstone 

 cliff's which look somewhat imposing when viewed from the sur- 

 rounding plains. On approaching it from the western side the 

 following trees and shrubs were seen : — Casuarina LueJiinanni, 

 Callitris robusta (plentiful), Ereniophila longijolia (in limited 



