180 Kennedy's expedition. 



larg'e seeded AnfjopJiora mentioned by me before, 

 also gTew in this district. 



About ten o'clock we came upon the banks of a 

 very fine river^ Avith a very broad bed;, and steep 

 banks on both sides. No doubt this was the river 

 we had seen to the eastward from our camp on the 

 9th instant. Mr. Kennedy considered this stream to 

 rise somewhere near Cape Tribulation, and after 

 running* northward about thirty miles, to turn to 

 the south-west, the way it was running- when we 

 came upon it. In this place it appeared a fine deep 

 river, and we followed it in its south-west course, 

 at a short distance from its banks, for six or seven 

 miles. The south-east bank was, for the last three 

 or four miles we traced it, covered with a narrow 

 belt of scrub, composed of Flagellaria, Jas7nimimj 

 Phjllantkus, and a rambling* plant, belonging- to 

 the natural order VcrhenacecB, with terminal spikes 

 of white, sweet-scented flowers. The trees were 

 principally Castanospennum^ . Ifelia, Midingia, and 

 Sarcocephalus, and a beautiful tree belong-ing- to the 

 natural order BomhacecB, probably to the g"enus 

 Eriodendwn, with larg'e spreading- branches, which, 

 as well as the trunk, were covered with spines. 

 These trees are from thirty to fifty feet in heig'ht, 

 and produce larg-e crimson campanulate flowers, 

 composed of five larg-e stifl" petals, about two inches 

 long-; stamens niunerous, all joining- at the base, 

 and divided ag-ain into five parcels ; the filaments 

 are the same leng-th as the i)etals ; five cleft stig-ma ; 



