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base, slig'htly curved inwards, and tapering- to a 

 point. The heads of the flowers, resembling- a 

 pine-apple in shape and size, and of a beautiful 

 crimson colour, are produced on the top of a strong' 

 flower-stem, 18 inches hig'h, and they will retain 

 their shape and colour for a month after being* cut. 

 This plant appears to be very local in its habits, as 

 I only caught sig'ht of it by the side of three creeks, 

 and always in moist, shady places. I obtained 

 seeds, and also packed some of its fleshy, tuberous 

 roots in a tin case. 



We saAV but few wallabies ; and not one kangaroo 

 or emu had as yet been seen by any of the party. 

 The country was not open enough for them to 

 inhabit. 



July 7 th. — We started at daylight, proceeding 

 over open forest ground covered with long grass, 

 very thick and luxuriant. Travelling was rendered 

 still more difiicult by the large logs of dead wood 

 which strewed the ground in every dii'ection, and 

 which much impeded the progress of the carts. 

 We camped by the side of a creek, with a narrow 

 belt of scrub on the south-east side, but apparently 

 a wide extent of it on the other. This creek had a 

 large sandy bed ; with large Castanospermums, Tris- 

 tanias, and Sarcocephali, growing* on its banks, 

 which were rather steep. It had a ver}' tortuous 

 course, coming from the south-west and turning* east 

 a little below our camp, wliich was in a bend of the 

 creek. 



