104 ON PLANTS USED BY THE NATIVES OF NORTH QUEENSLAND, 
59. er obovata, F. v. M. Native name on Cloncurry, 
“Tharginyah ;” n Mitchell, “ Arrimby.” Shrub with numerous 
straight stems, pies 6 or 7 feet high, wood pithy and brittle. 
Leaves alternate, entire, oblong, pale green, surface rough, 
lighter colour under surface ; trait small and white, in 
quantities ; the natives gather them in bark koolimans to bring 
into camp ; about ahs size of flat ge sweet and juicy, eaten raw, 
ripens in November. Grows on all the country from the 
cia to the Mitchell, often btetong the banks of creeks. 
0. Solanum neha Lindley. (sonanacex.) Native name on 
Goce, “OQon-doroo.” Herb, annual, about 1 foot high, a few 
pale green antag oft, tomentose, alternate, stem erect. Fruit the 
size of large marble, yellow ; grows among the tufts of grass on 
the Flinders plains, not very numerous ; eaten raw and roas 
Sir Thomas Mitchell mentions this plant. 
Cloncurry, % Ve ietew? A er, delicate g 
12 inches high, with very fine seeds we Grows on 
ridges on the Cloncurry ; not v very comm ne hee’ - 
aes indicus, F. Aus., vol. vii. Native name on 
63. Sterculia Ss. ttntyg Benth. Th _ 
e bottle-tree, also ca 
Ae tree; grows mostly over all North Queensland. 
roots of the youhg trees are eaten. 
64. pesca “— h 
. : yphylla, F. v. M. Native name oD 
lar 3M a A. large ~~ tree, 30 to 40 feet high ; 
small ches long ; rough bark, broken into 
inted ‘paint wood hard and nace Small fruit, pi 
pore ue when ripe; eaten raw. Grows in or near water 
on the Cloncurry, Gilbert, and Mitchell Rivers. 
Nati Trichosant thes palmata, F. Aus., vol. iii. (cucurnrtack®) 
ve name Cloncurry, vera! A coaren climbing 9am 
the Grrr and Similar tree, but smaller ; s on dry ridge’ 
s very pl lentifeliy a fine large blue pluie 'g qed to eat. ri : 
