98 ON PLANTS USED BY THE NATIVES OF NORTH QUEENSLAND, 
broken in water and strained through fine bags into large bark 
troughs full of water, and washed for hours, running the water 
over the sides of the pliant troughs as it gets discoloured, and 
stirring the yellow fecula with the ha nds) When sufficiently 
washed, round basins are made in the sand and lined with soft 
clay and sa nd, into which the product is poured ; when much of 
the intermixed water held {% drained away, leaving the food fit a 
use, and looking very much like maize hominy. Leichhar 
speaks of finding these tubers in the blacks’ camps, on page 384, 
and ead a difficulty in using them owing to their intense 
sve 
E corporate - Br. (cHENopopIACcE. ) Nativename 
on se * Kooloo-loo: ’ A small, spreading, tender, pererr 
shrub, growing all over eet plain country on 
About 2 feet high, frequently growing under the shade of other 
trees. Numerous fine fleshy leaves 1 inch long, pale 
Fruit, a red berry, small and flat, quite — but not numerous ; 
eaten raw. ‘This is one of the salt-bushe 
29. Entadascandens, Benth. A strong climber, pod 3 to 4 
feet long, and 4 Siohou broad ; the sctide. are 11 to 2 inches @ 
nasa before ee are fit to eat 
30. Encephalartos while F. M. “Dwarf 
Grows on stony ridges, a few feet high, along the coast neat 
Cooktown, and through the Wide Bay district. Bears a ae! 
cone fruit, not unlike a a pine-apple. The seeds, when ripe; af 
— red; they are baked in the ashes first, and the kernels 
soaked in the water for several days, and being pounded and 
pasted, experience tells them when they are fit for’ eating. 
mn” 
31. ELugenia seg Bentham. F., Aus. vol. iii, p. ace 
Native name on Mitche l, “ Oloorgo.” A large tree, be Het 
a 
40 feet high, called plum tree, with smooth brown bark. 
large and broad, gathered i in clusters at the end of small ts 
and red, with small stone inside ; eaten when ripe. TS 
— country, in open forest, between the Lynd and pine Ag 
32. Eucalyptus terminalis, F. v. M., F. Aus., vol. iii, P- “ = 
Native name on Cloncurry, “ Narm-boon-bong” ; ; on Cie : 
“Kulcha.” <A bi ood : g 
Pom smooth and paler on the limbs, grows 30 to 40 pee ah : 
. Manna the 
branches by being gathered and laid on pieces of bark, when®™ — 
