132 AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS. 
55- Heterodendron olezfolium, Des/, N.O., Sapindacee, B.FI., 
i., 469. 
“Emu Bush.” “ Jiggo” and “‘ Behreging ” are aboriginal names. 
The seeds, which are dry, are eaten by emus. Mr. S. Dixon 
states that both sheep and cattle feed greedily upon it. 
All the colonies except Tasmania. 
56. Hibiscus heterophyllus, Vext., (Syn. 7. grandiflorus, Salisb.); 
N.O., Malvacee, B.F1., i., 212. 
“ Green Kurrajong.” ‘‘ Dtharang-gange”’ is an aboriginal name. 
The leaves, branches, and bark of this tree are greedily eaten 
by cattle in winter. They are mucilaginous, in common with 
other plants of this natural order. 
New South Wales and Queensland. 
57. Jacksonia scoparia, &.Br., var. macrocarpa, (Syn. 7. 
cupulifera, Meissn.); N.O., Leguminose, B.Fl., ii, €0. 
F. cupulrfera in Muell. Cens., p. 34. 
A ‘‘ Dogwood.” 
Cattle and horses relish the foliage of this small tree 
amazingly. (Mueller.) 
Western Australia. 
58. Kochia aphylla, ”.Br., N.O., Chenopodiacezx, B.FI., v., 188. 
Considered by Baron Mueller to be a variety of A. vzllosa. 
(Muell. Cens., p. 30.) 
A *Salt-bush.” 
All kinds of stock are often largely dependent on it during 
protracted droughts, and when neither grass nor hay are obtain- 
able I have known the whole bush chopped up and mixed with a 
little corn, when it proved an excellent fodder for horses. One 
drawback it has, its stems are very fibrous, and the older 
portions indigestibly so. It is the principal cause of those bezoars, 
or felted knobs in the manipulus of the sheep, which in very pro- 
tracted droughts kill them by hundreds. When, however, the 
rains come, and soft herbage is abundant, these bezoars either 
partially dissolve, or become covered with a shiny black coating, 
so that they resemble a papier-maché ball. (S. Dixon.) 
In all the colonies except Tasmania. 
