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also those of E. LatroUi and JE. Woollsiana, which are figured and 

 described in the first volume of the " Fragmenta Phytographise 

 Australia." Sir T. Mitchell collected one species of EremopUla 

 and four of StenocUlus [See "Tropical Australia"], and Mrs. E. 

 Forde has recently noticed some of the same family on the Lower 

 Darling. Nearly allied to these plants, is Myoporum Cimninghami, 

 a shrub, which, in some respects, resembles Pittosporum pliil- 

 lyraoides, but differs altogether in the formation of the seed vessel. 

 The Dodoncea (a shrub with hop-like fruit) forwarded to me, seems 

 identical with D. cuneata, which is plentiful in this colony, but 

 probably a more attentive examination might lead to the con- 

 clusion that it is the allied species D. peduncularis, which has been 

 collected on the Maranoa. One of the most interesting of the 

 genus is D. multljuga, an elegant variety of which Miss Atkinson 

 found in the Valley of the Grose. The common species near 

 Sydney, are D. triquetra and D. viscosa (var. angusUfolia), the first 

 of which has a pretty appearance, and is sometimes called " the 

 Hop-plant." There is certainly considerable difficulty in fixing 

 the species of this genus, and it seems highly probable that many 

 of the so-called species will be referred to D. viscosa. Some 

 time since the writer of this paper discovered a pinnate variety of 

 Dodoncsa near Hunter's Hill, which he was inclined to regard as 

 one of the pinnate series of the genus ; but as he has never been 

 able to find a similar tree since, he is satisfied with Dr. Mueller's 

 solution of the difficulty, by referring it to D. viscosa. The pretty 

 little Galytlirix (a heath-like shrub, with a long hair at the end of 

 each lobe of the calyx) from the Darling Downs, is very like the 

 forms C. glabra and G. pubescens, which occur near Sydney, but 

 probably it is 0. scabra, Teucrium argutum (a labiate with pink 

 or purple flowers) , Boronia ledifolia (a rutaceous shrub with red 

 flowers, and allied to our native rose) ; Leptospermum flavescens 

 (a myrtaceous shrub, known as one of our "tea-trees") ; and three 

 Composites, viz., Ozothamnus, Cassinia, and Eurylia, (strongly 

 scented shrubs with white flowers) ; all these may be collected in 

 the county of Cumberland. The Euphorbiaceous shrub, resem- 

 bling the castor oil (Adriana acerifolia), and probably possessing 

 medicinal properties, was first collected by Allan Cunningham on 

 the Lachlan, and referred by him to the genus Croton. Sir T. 

 Mitchell found it on the Maranoa, and the writer of this paper 



