BY J. H MAIDEN. 525' 



food to the former, timber-getters are not permitted to fell these 

 trees. It is well worth extensive cultivation, for the nuts are 

 always eagerly bought. 



Northern New South Wales and Queensland. 



128. Macrozamia spp., N.O. Cycadese, B.Fl., vi., 250. ETice- 

 phalartos in Muell. Cens., p. 110. 



The kernels of the nut, after being pounded, macerated and 

 baked, are eaten by the natives. Curiously enough, the original 

 occupants of the soil seem never to have made use of the copious 

 starch, which can be readily washed out of the comminuted stems 

 of any Cycadaceous plants. All these plants are pervaded by a 

 virulent poison-principle, which becomes inert or expelled by heat 

 (Mueller). 



In all the colonies except Tasmania and Victoria. 



129. Macrozamia Miquelii, F.v.M., (Syn. Encex>halaTtos Mi- 

 quelii, F.v.M.; E. tridentatus, Lehm.), N.O. Cycadese, 

 B.FL, vi., 253. 



Dwarf Zamia. " Banga'' of Central Queensland aboriginals. 



Found generally in the same locality as Cycas media, with a 

 large cone fruit not unlike a pine-apple. The seeds, orange-red 

 when ripe, and separating freely, are baked for about half-an-hour 

 under ashes ; the outside covers and stones are then broken, and 

 the kernels, divided by a stroke of the Kondola, are put into a 

 dilly-bag and carried to a stream or pond, where they remain six 

 or eight days before they are fit for eating (Thozet). 



Queensland. 



130. Macrozamia spiralis, Miq., (Syn. Zamia spiralis, R.Br. ; 

 Encephalartos spiralis, Lehm.) ; N.O. Cycadacese, B.Fl.,. 

 vi., 251. Ence2)halartos spiralis in Muell. Cens., p. 110. 



" Burrawang nut," so called because they used to be, and are- 

 to some extent now, very common about Burrawang, N.S.W. 



