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156. OwENiA VENOSA, F.V.M., N.O., Meliacese, B.FL, i., 386. 



" Sour Plum," " Tulip Wood," " Mouliibie " of tlie aborigines 

 of Southern Queensland ; " Pyddharr " is another aboriginal 

 name. 



A beverage is produced by boiling the fruit, "<vhich, after going 

 through certain processes, is denominated wine, and forms an 

 agreeable beverage (Hill). 



Queensland. 



157. OxALis CORXICULATA, Linii., (Syn. 0. microphylla, Poir. ; 

 0. perennans, Haw. ; 0. Preissiana, Steud. ; 0. cognata, 

 Steud.), N.O. Geraniaceae, B.FL, i., 301. 



Galled " Clover Sorrel " or " Sour-grass." 



The acididous leaves of this plant are eaten by the natives 

 (Mueller). 



Throughout the colonies. 



158. Pandanus odoratissimus, Linn. /., (Syn. P. spiralis, 

 R.Br.), N.O. Pandane^, B.FL, vii., 148. 



" Screw Pine." 



"The natives at this season (September 16) seemed to live 

 l)rincipally on the seeds of this plant, but they evidently require 

 much preparation to desti'oy their deleterious pi'operties. At the 

 deserted camp of the natives which I visited yesterday, I saw half 

 a cone of the Pandanus covered up in hot ashes, large vessels 

 (koolimans) filled with water in which roasted seed-vessels were 

 soaking, seed-vessels which had been soaked were roasting on the 

 coals, and large quantities of them broken on stones and deprived 

 of their seeds. This seems to show that, in preparing the fruit 

 when ripe for use, it is first baked in hot ashes, then soaked in 

 water to obtain the sweet substance contained between its fibres, 

 after which it is put on the coals and roasted to render it brittle, 

 when it is broken to obtain the kernels (Leichhardt, Overland 

 Journey to Port Essington). 



