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with scrubs of Leptospermum, Fabricia, and Do- 

 doncea. By the creeks, when the ground was sandy, 

 we saw Ahrus precatorius, and a small tree about 

 fifteen feet high, with bi-pinnate leaves, the leaflets 

 very small, with long flat legumes containing ten 

 or twelve black and red seeds, hke those of Ahrus 

 precatorius, but rather larger. 



Sept. \Qth and 14^A. — Most part of these days we 

 travelled over a country of stiif soil, covered with 

 iron-bark, and divided at intervals by belts of sandy 

 ground, on which grew Banhsias, Callitris, and a 

 very pretty Lopliostemon, about twenty feet high, 

 with long narrow lanceolate leaves, and a very round 

 bushy top. By the side of the small streams 

 running through the flat ground, I saw a curious 

 herbaceous plant, with large pitchers at the end of 

 the leaves, like those of the common pitcher-plant 

 '(Nepenthes destillatoria). It was too late in the 

 season to find flowers, but the flower-stems were 

 about eighteen inches high, and the pitchers would 

 hold about a wine-glass full of water. This in- 

 teresting and singular plant Yerj much attracted 

 the attention of all our party. 



We here fell in with a camp of natives. Imme- 

 diately on seeing us they ran away from their camp, 

 leaving behind them some half-cooked food, con- 

 sisting of the meal of some seeds, (most likely 

 Moreton Bay chesnuts), which had been moistened, 

 and laid in small irregular pieces on a flat stone 

 with a small fire beneath it. We took a part of 



