102. ON PLANTS USED BY THE NATIVES OF NORTH QUEENSLAND,: 
49, Owenia acidula, F. v. M. Found on stony ridges principally; 
a shrub or tree 20 feet high, very shady, erect trunk and glossy 
innate leaves. Bears a dark red or crimson fruit, eatable part 
(sarcocarp ) red, eaten raw, very acid. On Cloncurry ridges. 
Spondias pleiogyna, F. v. M., is a similar tree, and grows in a 
like manner, called sweet plum. Fruit eaten raw. 
. Pandanus aquaticus, F. Aus., vol. vii, p. 148. Native 
name on Mitchell, “%-Ko0.” A species of palm, with spira 
leaves ; grows in sandy co 
the coast, particularly along the banks of small sandy creeks. 
The fruit is a large cone, orange red w 
numerous hard nuts imbedded or attached to a rachis, which are 
ro. 
are to be seen in great numbers round their old camp fires in the 
sandy country between the Gilbert and the Palmer. 
high. Found on Cloncurry plains. The seed-top breaks off when 
° a fi 
dry, and is driven by the wind across the plains a ~ 
yellow seed like lucerne seed, which is gathered when the seed 18 
Just opened from the sheath. It is winnowed and ground 
tween two stones, mixed with water into a kind of paste or thick 
gruel, and poured into the hot ashes ; making into a sort of damp 
bread, very nourishing and satisfying, 
Pir Parinarium nonda, Flora Aus, vol. ii, p. 426. A large 
ady tree, growing in sandy forest country, from the Saxby River 
Ps Cooktown, 30 to 40 feet high, with spreading branches; 
” e drooping, flowers small. Fruit 14 inch long, yellow 
en ripe, with a dry mealy taste, rather rough in the mouth ; 
a small rough stone. 
by emus, 
ri the trunk and base, smoother in the limbs on 
8, narrow, and pendant, thick and coriaceous. oe 
, n, pointed and oblong, } inch long, ent 
raw. Grows in poor, sandy, country, between the Saxby River 
n. 
and the coast towards Cooktow 
