186 Kennedy's expedition. 



larg'e seeded Aivgaphora mentioned by me before, 

 also grew in this district. 



About ten o'clock we came upon the banks of a 

 very fine river, with a very broad bed, and steep 

 banks on both sides. No doubt this was the river 

 we had seen to the eastward from our camp on the 

 9th instant. Mr. Kennedy considered this stream to 

 rise somewhere near Cape Tribulation, and after 

 running- northward about thirty miles, to turn to 

 the south-west, the way it was running* when we 

 came upon it. In this place it appeared a fine deep 

 river, and we followed it in its south-west course, 

 at a short distance from its banks, for six or seven 

 miles. The south-east bank was, for the last three 

 or four miles we traced it, covered with a narrow 

 belt of scrub, composed of Flagellaria, Jasminum, 

 Phyllanthus, and a rambling plant, belonging to 

 the natural order Verbenacece, with terminal spikes 

 of white, sweet-scented flowers. The trees were 

 principally Castanospermum, Melia, Sulingia, and 

 Sarcoeephalus, and a beautiful tree belonging* to the 

 natm-al order BomhacecB, probably to the genus 

 Eriodeiidron, with large spreading branches, which, 

 as well as the trunk, were covered with spines. 

 These trees are from thirty to fifty feet in height, 

 and produce large crimson campanulate flowers, 

 composed of five large stiff petals, about two inches 

 long; stamens numerous, all joining at the base, 

 and divided again into five parcels ; the filaments 

 are the same length as the petals ; fi\ e cleft stigma ; 



