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From Sydney the botanists made an excursion full of interest 
to the Blue Mountains, running parallek with and about fifty me 
from the coast; a range which for many years proved an in- 
surmountable barrier to the early colonists. The eastern ie 
tween the upland, sae x Australian vegetation and the 
traction flora of the lower valleys, where tr opical elements, 
such as Ficus, feaucn of the northern Australian flora, 
mingle with a southern element represented by a luxuriant 
a of ferns, including the ieee: ferns peoona ae and Alsophila, 
On f 
n damper spots filmy fer ther slope of the 
Sonatas bordering bar ah ‘which melee -_ the Jenolan 
caves, a remarkable series of lim were fine speci- 
mens of Callitris Cuoninghams, ne. latioat. ‘asin of “is genus ; 
it frequents freshwater stream 
The Government has rotated as a national reserve six square 
miles of country round Jenolan ; wallabies range unmolested over 
the rocks, and the platypus takes his early morning tas in the 
stream, the trees shelter see brightly — petites and 
the Australian magpie, the satin-bird, and many others, are in 
evidence. On the steep “lift faces as kas of the “ rock 
lily,” a terrestrial Orchid (Dendrobium speciosum) with a habit 
recalling the lily-of-the-valley. A walk along the valley, under the 
gui idan nee of Mr. R. H. Cambage, an Eons local ge aa yielded 
m, 
oody Violac le Hedycarya Cinnnghamt (Lauraces 2), Coprosma 
hirtella (Rubiacex), Pomaderris apetala (Rhamnacex), Bursaria 
spinosa, Solanum aviculare, these forming biaaladi or small trees ; 
while Acacia melanoxylon, Eucalyptus melliodora (yellow box- 
tree), and Sterculia diversifolia were conspicuous among the 
larger trees. Among the undergrowth were species of Senecio, 
Khe large-flowered S. macranthus, with S tralis and Ss. lautus, an 
“everlasting,” Helichrysum semipapposum, Epilobium tetragonum, 
and of Papilionacese Indigofera australis, Daviesia latifolia, and 
the climber Kennedya monophylia. 
Another excursion through a different type of country was 
made in the company of Mr. Maiden. Passing southwards from 
Sydney through — country, we crossed King George’s river, 
up which Robert Brown botanized from a small boat, then passed 
through the oT National Reserve, where, among other 
plants of interes as the serpent Ama 2 Sar Doryanthes 
excelsa, with oe sic: shaped leaves and tall flowering stem 
ending in — massive crimson Eaiolebeniat Following the 
coast road w fine specimens of the tall native palm, 
Livistona australis, and ei ascending the steep coast cliff to 
Bulli were again in aa ai South Wales _bush-vegetation. 
~ varied flora incl es of Banksia, Hakea, Grevillea, 
Isopogon, Persoonia, with eeee. ‘like fruit, and Petrophila among 
