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Keimedya^ Bamhusa (bamboo)^ SmilaXj CissiiSy 

 Mucunay nnd various climbing' plants unknown to 

 me : the trees consisted principally of JEuf/enia, 

 Anacardiumy Castanosjjcnnum (Moreton Bay chest- 

 nut)^ a fine species of Sarcocephahis, and a larg-e 

 spreading- tree belong-ing* to the natural order Ruta- 

 cecBy with ternate leaves^ and axillary panicles of white 

 flowers^ about the size of those of Boronia piniiafa. 

 At the edg'e of the rocks were some fine tree ferns 

 (I)icksonia),v^'\\h the g'enera Xipliopteris, and Pohj- 

 podium j also some beautiful epiphytal Orcliidece, 

 among- others a beautiful Bendrohium (rock lily)^ 

 with the habit of B. speciosum, but of strong-er 

 gTowthj bearing- long- spikes of bright ^^ellow flo\\ers^ 

 the sep-als sjjotted with rich purple. I found also 

 another species with smaller leaves^ and more slender 

 habit^ with spikes of dull green flowers^ the column 

 and tips of the sepals purple : and a very fine 

 Cymbidium, much larger than C. suave, with brovtii 

 blossoms^ having a yellow column. 



I proceeded along the edge of a mangrove sv»^amp 

 for a short distance^ and entered a fresh water swamp 

 about a mile from the beach^ covered with very thick 

 scrubs composed of large trees of the genus 31ela- 

 leuca, running for the most part from forty to fifty 

 feet high. Here also I first found a strong-growing 

 climbing palm (Calamus AastraUs), throwing up a 

 number of shoots from its roots, many of them 100 

 feet long-j and about the thickness of a man's finger, 

 with long pinnatifid leaves, covered with sharp 



