16 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
cooked as an ordinary dish of spinach, with this difference in 
favour of the new plant, that there was no occasion to take away 
the threads which are so disagreeable in chicory, sorrel, and 
ordinary spinach. We partook of this dish with relish—the 
flavour—analogous to spinach, had something in it more refined, 
less grassy in taste. The cultivation is easy: sow the seed in 
April (October) in a well-manured bed, for the plant is greedy ; 
water it. The leaves may be gathered from the time the plant 
attains 50 centimetres (say 20 inches) in height. They grow up 
again quickly. In less than eight days afterwards another 
gathering may take place, and so on to the end of the year.” — 
Fournal de la Ferme et des Maisons de Compagne, quoted in 
Pharm. Fourn. (2) vill., 734- 
In all the colonies except Tasmania and Western Australia. 
44. Chenopodium murale, Zzun., (Syn. C. erosum, R.Br.,) 
N.O. Chenopodiacez, B.Fl,, v., 160. Bentham considers 
this may have been introduced, and Muell. (Cens.) omits it 
altogether. 
“ Australian Spinach,” “‘ Fat-hen.” Other species share this name. 
A pot-herb, which may be utilised in the same manner as the 
preceding species. 
Southern colonies. 
45. Citriobatus pauciflorus, A. Cunn., (Syn. Lxtosporus spine- 
scens, F.v.M.,) N.O. Pittosporez, B.FI., i., 122. 
‘Native Orange,” “ Orange Thorn.” 
The fruit is an orange berry with a leathery skin, about one 
inch and a half in diameter. The seeds are large. It is eaten by 
the aboriginals. 
New South Wales, Queensland, and Northern Australia. 
46. Citris australis, Planch., (Syn. Limonia australis, A. 
Cunn.,) N.O. Rutacez, B.FI., i., 371. Cztrus Planchoniz, 
F.v.M., in Muell. Cens., p. 112. 
‘““Native Lime,” ‘‘ Orange.” 
The fruit, which is an inch and a-half in diameter and almost 
globular, yields an agreeable beverage from its acid juice. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
