Xll. ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS. 



the natives for making fire by friction, the inflammable 

 material round the hole of the horizontal stick being 

 dry kangaroo dung. 



Specimens of Budda or Bud t ha, Eremophila Mit- 

 chelli, Benth., green logs of which were used in the 

 early days for obtaining tar for branding by a rough 

 process of dry distillation. 



Fruits of Plttosporum phillyrceoides, DC, Butter 

 Bush, from the play-grounds of the Spotted Bower 

 Bird. It will be observed that the birds have only 

 selected those fruits which are markedly heart-shaped, 

 and which have not dehisced. 



Specimens of the Nypang, Cappar'is lasiantha, R.Br., 

 in flower and showing the recurved hooks which are 

 particularly abundant on the young stems, and which 

 enable the plant to scramble up trees and shrubs. 



Fruits etc. of the allied Capparis Mitchelli, Lindl., 

 sometimes called the Native Orange. 



Fragments of the scale bark of the Carbeen, 



Eucalyptus tessclaris, F.v.M., which forms tesserae, 



roughly in one inch cubes, and from which the specific 



name tesselaris is derived. 



The various specimens were accompanied by herbarium 



specimens. 



ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, SEPTEMBER 4th, 1912. 



The three hundred and fifty-second (352nd) General 

 Monthly Meeting of the Royal Society of New South Wales 

 was held at the Society's House, 5 Elizabeth-street North, 

 at 8 p.m. 

 , Mr. R. H. Oambage, President, in the Chair. 



Twenty-three members and eighteen visitors were 

 present. 



