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not on wet land. Being usually hollow when large, this tree 
is not so useful for timbering mimes. The Eucalypts. Wattles 
and Beefwoods (Proteaceae) are well represented. The 
stringybark seems to select the bighest peaks only, as its 
haunt. The other Eucalypts can descend lower. 
Granite ridges, on the other hand, vield a barren soil, 
and do not favour herbage or trees. A worthless stunted 
broad-leaved iron bark grows on these hills. It is generally 
dead at the extremities of the branches. The difference in 
vegetation between the iarge trees of the chlorite country 
and the stunted trees and scanty herbage of the bare granite 
ridges can be seen miles away, and is very useful to the pros- 
pector. 
On the ridges we find Polycarpcea spirostyles, Gastro- 
lobium grandiflorum, Helichrysum collinum and H. apicu- 
latum, Hibbertia Bennettii, Hamadorum coccineum, Dianella 
levis, Dianella cerulea, the lovely Thysanotus tuberosus 
or Pride of Australa, and among grasses—Arundinella 
nepalensis, Andropogon bombycinus and Anthistiria 
ciliata. The first-named is the prevailing grass on the ridges. 
Acacia humifusa, Zamias and grass trees also grow on the 
ridges. 
Such grasses as Anthistiria ciliata, Andropogon bomby. 
cinus, Heteropogon contortus grow somewhat more luxuriantly 
in the clefts on the hill-sides, but Arundinella nepalensis asks 
less soil than these. These hill-side gullies show also Lam- 
prolobium fruticosum, Ccelospermum reticulatum and the 
lovely little grass Perotis rara. 
The creek-beds show white gum, the Shea-oak, Tristania 
suaveolens (blooming a month earlier than further south) 
Acacia Simsu and the characteristic Timonius Rumphii. 
Tagetes patula grows wild here, as an escaped stray. The 
narrow alluvial flats along the creeks show the elegant Bursaria 
spinosa (prickly box), Careya australis with its singular long. 
styled sappy fruit, Dodonza triquetra (a hop-bush), Eryth- 
rophleeum Laboucherii (i1ronwood), Acacia Bidwilli, Persoonia 
falcata (geebung), Grevillea striata, Hakea Persiehana (very 
like the western needlewood), Petalostigma quadriloculare, 
Xerotes, and among other grasses Setaria glauca (Foxtail 
grass), the fragrant Klonurus citreus, and Eragrostis Brownii, 
Euphorbia pilulifera (useful for asthma) may be seen, and as 
