FLINDERS AND MITCHELL RIVERS, FOR FOOD, MEDICINE, kc. 101. 
figured on Egyptian and Indian monuments, and the fruit is said 
to be the “ Pythagorean Bean.” . It is the sacred bean of India. 
The plant is said to have disappeared from the Nile, where it 
used to a : 
Nelumbiun leichardtii is the sacred bean of N. E. Australia. 
47, Nymphea gigantea, Hook. The blue water-lily. Native 
mame on Mitchell “Arnurna.” Large broad leaf, floating on 
the surface of the water, green on the upper and blue on the 
under surface, with prominent reticulations on the under part of 
the leaf. Flowers large and bluish, or blue, or white—grows m 
ay Songon, ” the seed-stalk “Urgullathy,” and the round seed-head 
Thin -’ On the Cloncurry, the Mycoolon tribe call the tubers 
dah, the stalk Thoolambool, and the seed-head is “ Mille. 
a Orye i indi i , Native 
yza sativa, Linn., indigenous (rice of commerce). Native 
on Cloncurry *Kineyah.” A a grass, 4 to 6 feet high, 
’ ds are 
ad winnowed, to separate the husks and beards from the eatable 
tos iia is then pate between two stones with water, and 
