34 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
flowers and collected. Mr. Bauerlen tells me that on account of 
this liquid the flowers are difficult to preserve. See also Banksia 
Grey Ranges, New South Wales. 
104. Grewia polygama, Aoxd., (Syn. G. heliclerifolia, Wall), 
N:O., Tiliacesej, BeBl.:i-, (271. 
“Plain Currant,” ‘‘Karoom,” of aboriginals of the Rockhampton 
tribe. '‘ Ouraie,” of aboriginals of Cleveland Bay, and “ Kooline,” of those 
of the Cloncurry River. 
““T found a great quantity of ripe Grewia seeds, and, on 
eating many of them, it struck me that their slightly acidulous 
taste, if imparted to water, would make a very good drink; I 
therefore gathered as many as I could, and boiled them for about 
an hour ; the beverage which they produced was at all events the 
best we had tasted on our expedition, and my companions were 
busy the whole afternoon in gathering and boiling the seeds.” 
(Leichhardt, Overland Expedition to Port Essington, p. 295.) 
Queensland and Northern Australia. 
105. Haemodorum spicatum, #.47., (Syn. H. edule, Endl.), and 
other species, N.O., Amaryllidez, B.FI., vi., 420. 
The bulbs are eaten by the aboriginals. 
Western Australia. 
108. Hakea leucoptera, &.Br., (Syn. HW. leucocephala, Dietr. ; 
H. virgata, R.Br.; H. tephrosperma, R.Br. ; H. longicuspis, 
R.Br..; A. stricta, F.v.M.),; N.O., Proteacez,-B.Fl5 W..agmee 
‘“* Needle-bush,” ‘‘ Pin-bush.” 
Good drinking water is got from the fleshy roots of this bush 
in the arid districts in which it grows. The same method of 
obtaining it is employed as described at page 1. 
“Tn an experiment on a water-yielding Hakea, the first root, 
about half-an-inch in diameter and six or eight feet long, yielded 
quickly, and in large drops, about a wine-glassful of really 
excellent water.’ (Lockhart Morton, Froc. R.S. Vic., 1860, 
Pp: 132.) 
All the colonies, except Tasmania and Western Australia. 
