BY R. H. CAMBAGE. 207 



or Apple-Box), E. tereticor-nis, with var. dealhata on the hillside, 

 E. Woollsiana, R. T. Baker (Narrow-leaved Box), a little of E. 

 viridis, R. T. Baker (Narrow-leaved or Whipstick Mallee, usually 

 the first of the Mallees met with in going west), E. sideroxylon, 

 and a little of E. affinis, Deane & Maiden (Ironbark Box). 



The last two species were formerly more plentiful in the 

 vicinity of Murrumbidgerie than is the case at present, many of 

 the trees having been cut down for the timber, and these species 

 will soon be unobservable from the train. 



Other trees and shrubs noticed were : — Angophora intermedia, 

 DC, (Apple), Callitris rohusta, Acacia homalojyhylla, A. Cunn., 

 (Yarran), A. decora, Pimelea limfolia, Stercidia diver sifolia 

 (plentiful in places), Heterodendron oleaifoliiiin, Desf., (Rosewood), 

 Eremophila longi/olia, F.v.M., (one of the plants called Emu-bush), 

 Casuarina Litehynanni, R. T. Baker (Bull Oak), and C. Cnnning- 

 harniana, Miq., (River Oak, a tree found only along the banks of 

 fresh-water streams). Although this species extends up the 

 Macquarie to the Fish River above Bathurst, I was unable to 

 jfind its terminal point down the stream, but was informed that 

 it ceases before the river enters the reed beds where the channel 

 is lost. 



The Wellington-Dubbo district is one of the few places 

 where Angophora i^iter-media crosses to the southern side of the 

 Great Western Railway, excepting on the east of the Great 

 Dividing Range; and it is remarkable that its absence from the 

 area extending from Penrith to the Lower Lachlan and Upper 

 Bogan was noted and commented upon by Oxley in the first 

 journey ever made by white men over this latter part of the 

 country, though the observations were probably made by Allan 

 Cunningham and Charles Fraser. the botanists who accompanied 

 Oxley's expedition. 



The plants mentioned in the following list were noted along the 

 Mudgee road, by far the greater number being collected on a sand- 

 stone hill at about four miles from Dubbo, the alteration in geolo- 

 gical formation being in this instance responsible for a wonderful 

 change in the flora. The following plants were seen : — Clematis 



