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I shall forward specimens of the flower to Sir W. Hooker when I get 
them. I also put in fruit of two other edible Capparidee : the round one 
is very common, and is also ealled Taroom : the oblong little one on the 
sprig is a climbing plant, and is called ‘ Mendameda.' rchids are 
hardly to be seen in these bushes; but there is a pink terrestrial one 
now before the house, which I will send you to-morrow if I can; do 
not take it for a Calanthe because of its leaves. I also saw, about 
eighty miles from this, an apparently new one, which had fallen from a 
tree in a scrub ; but I neglected to take it, thinking that I should be sure 
to get plenty here. I forget the name of the genus, but you may com- 
fort yourself that the flower is one of the most insignificant of the tribe. 
There are hardly any fig-trees in these bushes; and, in fact, they are 
very poor compared to those at the Manning and Macleay. 
“There is no Bunya (A4raucaria Bidwilli) in my district: the 
only locality for. it appears to be on the ranges at the head of the 
Brisbane, dividing that river from the heads of the Boyne or Burnett. 
Its habitat is, therefore, exceedingly limited, and in coming here I only 
saw five trees. I was told at one station, near which, on the surround- 
ing ranges, these trees are numerous, that the weather was often there 
so cold in the winter that they had ice in the buckets an inch thick. 
In 1842, when I was at Moreton Bay, looking for the Bunya, I met 
with a Wide Bay Black, who told me that that there was at that place 
another pine; not ‘brother belonging to Bunya, but brother belonging 
toMoreton Bay Pine.’ From that time to this I have made constant in- 
quiries about this other pine; but (except Dr. Simpson, the C. C. at 
Moreton Bay) never again met with anybody who had seen or heard any- 
thing about it. Something, I do not know what, made me imagine that 
it was a Dammara; and I was surprised to find that Dr, Simpson had 
arrived at the same conclusion from comparing the description he had 
heard with the wood-cut of Dammara, in Loudon’s Encyclopedia of 
Plants. Still, after all, I thought it might be nothing but Podocarpus 
elata, which is found at Moreton Bay. When I arrived here I inquired 
of everybody, particularly the sawyers and splitters, if there were two 
pines : they were unanimous in saying ‘No.’ I was almost disheartened, 
when yesterday (Jan. 1, 1849), in going up the river to sound, and look 
for the site of the future Maryborough, I espied a tree which did not 
look exactly like a pine, and yet was like one in some respects. I ac- 
cordingly landed, and after mistaking a large F/indersia for my tree, and 
