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pical regions of Australia, there are others which are associated 

 with the botany of the Blue Mountains and Illawarra. Amongst 

 the plants collected b y Mrs. Eorde and Miss Scott, are Nephelium 

 leiocarpum, Dodoncea anyustifolia (capindacese), Celastrus Cun- 

 ninqhami, (Celastracese), Myoporum acuminatum (Myoporaceae), 

 species of Morinda, Opercularia and Canthium, (JRubiacece) Acliras 

 Australis, (Sapotaceas) ; Panaxelegans (Araliacese), Cargilliapenta- 

 mera (Ebenaceae), Parietariadebilis(~UYtica,ee2d), Sterculia diver si- 

 folia (Sterculiacese) , Deeringia celosioides (Amarantaceae), eight 

 orchids, including Sarchochilus falcatus, twenty-three species of 

 Grasses, and seventeen of ferns, all of which are to be found near 

 Sydney. From a list prepared a few years since by Mrs. Eorde, 

 (after I had visited the island and examined the vegetable produc- 

 tions, as well as many dried specimens which had been collected and 

 prepared by that lady and her sister), I could furnish the names of 

 almost all the plants then growing on Ash Island, but I think it 

 unnecessary to enumerate those species which are common in 

 the colony. 



PLANTS ON THE BARLING- 



T N the latter part of 1865, and the first five months of 1866, 

 when the late E. Forde Esq., (a gentleman no less admired 

 for his amiable disposition, than distinguished for his scientific 

 attainments,) was engaged with a party in surveying the Lower 

 Darling, I had the pleasure to receive from Mrs. Eorde some 

 interesting specimens of plants, which that accomplished lady 

 had collected for me whilst accompanying her much lamented 

 husband in his expedition up the river. Having recently seen some 

 elegant drawings of indigenous plants from that quarter, which 

 were executed by Mrs. Eorde with a view of illustrating the 

 " Elora of the Darling," I have been reminded of the valuable 

 specimens forwarded to me some time since, and I propose, with 



