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from leaves or tendrils^ could be obtained^ and would 

 be useful for all the purposes to which the common 

 cane is now applied. 



At this spot also I met with Dracontium pohj- 

 phi/Uum, a beautiful plant^ belong-ing- to the natural 

 order Aroidew, climbing- by its rooting- stems to the 

 tops of the treeSj like the ivy. This plant has 

 narrow pointed leaves^ four inches long-, and produces 

 at the ends of the shoots a red spatha, enclosing- a 

 cylindrical spadix of yellow flowers. 



In many parts the swamp was completely covered 

 with a very strong- g-rowing- species of Restio (rope- 

 g-rass). On the open ground, between the beach 

 and the swamp, were a few large flooded-g-ums, and 

 some Moreton Bay ash trees, and near the beach 

 I found the Exocarims latifolia. 



On the beach, too, just above hig'h water mark, 

 was a beautiful spreading-, lactescent tree, about 

 twenty feet hig-h, belong-ing- to the natural order 

 AjwcynecBy with alternate, exstipulate, broad, lanceo- 

 late leaves, six to eig-ht inches long-, and producing- 

 terminal spikes of larg-e, white, sweet-scented flowers, 

 resembling' those of the white JVeiiiim oleander, but 

 much larg-er. I also met with a tree about twenty 

 feet high, belong-ing- to the natural order DillemacecB, 

 with larg-e spreading- branches, producing* at the 

 axilla of the leaves from three to five larg-e 3 ellow 

 flowers, with a row of red appendag-es surrounding- 

 the carpels, — and a fine species of Ccdophjllumy 

 with larg*e dark green leaves, six to eight inches long. 



