BY F. BENNETT. 69 
whole, are not of much value as fodder, being of a poor class 
and lush in growth. A new grass Panicum nematostachyum 
has been discovered by myself. * 
The native names of plants differ from those given else- 
where—some dialects more resembling that of the distant 
Warrego district rather than that of tribes only 20 miles 
away on the eastern watershed. 
Capparis spinosa is Ah dum’. 
Careya australis is Yuh ces’ lah. 
Persoonia falcata (geebung) is Aal por’ah. 
Breynia oblongifolia is ’Nyell’um. 
Petalostigma quadriloculare is Pwee. 
With regard to the so-called ** Copper plant,” Polycarpcea 
spirostyles. brought into scientific prominence by Mr. Skert- 
chley, where there is copper, there may be this plant, but the 
converse is most certainly not true. / 
On a ridge to the east of the Main Range, I was one day 
surprised to discover a hill-side clothed with Syncarpias. 
I have seen them, so far, nowhere else. The ridge lies open 
to the east winds from the coast, but I could find none on any 
other ridge opening in any eastern or other direction. 
The find is not far from the Dargwi mine. Passiflora 
feetida, judging bv local indications is indigenious, not intro- 
duced. I have seen one Moreton Bay Ash, and only one, here. 
To sum up briefly. 
The flora of the district can be at once distinguished 
from that of Southern Queensland by the presence of such 
plants as  Careya australis. This, with Grevillea 
gibbosa would at once attract notice, but apart from 
this, there are few plants specially local or tropical, and, 
with the exceptions named, the botanist, beholding the 
shea-oak, the spotted gum and the bloodwood in such abund- 
ance, would not be struck by anything novel. There are no 
scrubs of thickly clustered low-set trees like the brigalow 
of the Dawson and the Moonie, the mulga of the Warrego, or 
the gidya of the Diamantina. The ‘“ sandalwood,” so cos- 
mopolitan in its nature, is absent. The ridges, even when 
heavily timbered with big trees, are never thickly timbered, 
and never approach to true mountain scrub, nor ever show 
the dense vegetation so characteristic of the ranges nearer 
the coast, though the rainfall is almost as copious, and the 
