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from leaves or tendrils^ could be obtained, and would 

 be useful for all tbe purposes to which the common 

 cane is now applied. 



At this spot also I met with Dracontium poly- 

 phyllum, a beautiful plant, belonging to the natural 

 order Aroidecs, climbing by its rooting stems to the 

 tops of the trees, Hke the ivy. This plant has 

 narrow pointed leaves, four inches long, and produces 

 at the ends of the shoots a red spatha, enclosing a 

 cylindrical spadix of j-ellow flowers. 



In many parts the swamp was completely covered 

 with a very strong growing species of Sestio (rope- 

 grass). On the open ground, between the beach 

 and the swamp, were a few large flooded-gums, and 

 some Moreton Bay ash trees, and near the beach 

 I found the Exocarpus latifolia. 



On the beach, too, just above high water mark, 

 was a beautiful spreading, lactescent tree, about 

 twenty feet high, belonging to the natural order 

 ApocynetB, with alternate, exstipulate, broad, lanceo- 

 late leaves, six to eight inches long, and producing 

 terminal spikes of large, white, sweet-scented flowers, 

 resembling those of the white Nerium oleander, but 

 much larger. I also met with a tree about twenty 

 feet high, belonging to the natural order Dilleniacem, 

 with large spreading branches, producing at the 

 axilla of the leaves from three to five larg-e yellow 

 flowers, with a row of red appendages surrounding- 

 the carpels, — ^nd a fine species of Calophylhm, 

 with large dark green leaves, six to eight inches long. 



