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supports fungi, lichens, mosses, and a few scattered ferns of 

 which the most common are Fteris tremula and Adiantum 

 hispidiiliim. The common grass is Oplismenus compositus. This 

 I have found, I may say, universally diffused through these and 

 similar forests. 



Many of the tallest trees are bound together by certain creepers 

 which form vines or masses of leaves and flowers. The principal 

 of these are Tecoma atcstraUs, and T. jasminoides, Clematis 

 ghjcinoides, Bhipogonum alhum (a thorny climber of the lily tribe) 

 Flagellaria indica, EustrepTius latifolius (the bulbs o£ this are 

 excellent eating), Geitonoplesmm cymosum, Jasminum didymium^ 

 J. racemosum, J. linear e. Other trees more or less common in 

 the forests of the Burnett, are Marlea vitiensis the only species 

 of the genns and order in Australia, but one which is found in all 

 the forests of the coast and extending to ]^ew South Wales. 

 Gardenia cliartacea, Castanospermum australe, ApnantJie pJiilip- 

 pinensis, Canthium lii,cidum, C. citriobatuSy C multiflorus, Kihara 

 macropliylla, are interspersed with many other species which were 

 not in flower or otherwise indeterminable by me. The edge of 

 the scrub has a thick growth of Ruhus roscefolius which produces 

 a small tasteless raspberry, and the growth of the weed Verlena 

 honariensis is also very thick. I do not attempt to give an 

 exhaustive list of species, as these forests are so rich, but I may 

 remark that they are nearly tropical in character as the river is 

 not more than 100 miles south of the tropical line. Sterculias 

 or bottle-trees are not common. 



In those parts of the river from which the scrub recedes the 

 usual Australian vegetation reappears. The banks are thickly 

 lined with Melaleuca genistifolia, a species very extensively dis- 

 tributed through marshy places in New South "Wales and 

 Queensland. It sometimes forms a dense brushwood as most 

 species of tea-tree do in marshy situations. There is a brush of 

 this kind on the north side of the river a little to the east of the 



