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with scrubs of Lcptosper^mum, Fabricia, and Do- 

 doncea. J^y the creeks^ when the g-round was sandy, 

 we saw Ahriis j^recatorivs, and a small tree about 

 fifteen feet hig-h, with bi-pinnate leaves, the leaflets 

 very small, with long* flat leg-umes containing- ten 

 or twelve black and red seeds, like those of Ahrus 

 precatorms, but rather larg'er. 



SejJt. ISth and 14f/<.— Most part of these days we 

 travelled over a country of stiff soil, covered with 

 iron-bark, and divided at intervals by belts of sandy 

 ground, on which grew JBanksias, Callitris, and a 

 very pretty Lojjhostcmon, about twenty feet hig-h, 

 with long- norrow lanceolate leaves, and a very round 

 bushy top. By the side of the small streams 

 running" throug'h the flat g-round, I saw a curious 

 herbaceous plant, with large pitchers at the end of 

 the leaves, like those of the common pitcher-plant 

 (JVejJcnthes dcstillatoria). It was too late in the 

 season to find flowers, but the flower-stems were 

 about eig'hteen inches hig'h, and the pitchers would 

 hold about a wine-glass full of water. This in- 

 teresting- and sing-ular plant ver^^ much attracted 

 the attention of all our party. 



We here fell in with a camp of natives. Imme- 

 diately on seeing- us they ran away from their camp, 

 leaving" behind them some half-cooked food, con- 

 sisting- of the meal of some seeds, (most likely 

 Moreton Bay chesnuts), which had been moistened, 

 and laid in small irreg'ular pieces on a flat stone 

 >\ ith a snudl fire beneath it. We took a part of 



