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THE AUSTRALIAN DKYANDRA. 



150 to 200 feet. When wounded, a red juice flows from it very 

 freely, hardening into irregular, inodorous, and transparent masses 

 in the air, and furnishing as much as sixty gallons from a single tree. 

 Finally, I may refer to the Dryandra, whose foliage is very 

 graceful, and its conformation very varied. Sometimes it is found as 



VEGETABLE LITE ON THE AUSTRALIAN PLAINS. 



1. Acacia verticillata. 2. Casuarina equisetifolia, or " Black Boy Tree. " 



3. Corypha Australia, or "Australian Palm." 



a bush, three to seven feet high ; and sometimes, as in the Dryandra 

 repens, creeping along the ground. 



On the more temperate heights the traveller encounters some 

 plants of a fantastic character : as, for instance, the Doryanihes 

 excelsa, with its upright gigantic leaves, more than 6 feet long, and 

 from 2 to 3| inches broad ; from their centre rises a strong stalk, 



