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A very valuable fodder-tree ; largely used and much valued in 

 the interior districts as food for stock during periods of drought. 

 The same remarks apply more or less to all species of Casuarina. 



28. Cedrela Toona, Roxb., B. FL, i., 387. C. australis in Muell. 



Cens., p. 9. Syn. : 0. australis, F.v.M. KO. Meliacese. 

 Ordinary " Cedar." Called " Polai " by the aboriginals of 

 northern New South Wales, " Mumin " or "Mugurpul" by 

 those about Brisbane, and ''Woota" by those about Wide 

 Bay, Queensland. Found in New SouthWales and Queensland. 



The leaves are used to feed cattle in India. (Gamble.) It 

 should be observed however, that Baron Mueller differs from 

 Bentham in considering the Australian "Cedar" specifically 

 distinct from the " Toon " of India. In any case, the trees are so 

 closely related that any property possessed by the one is shared 

 by the other. 



29. Claytonia polyandra, F.v.M., B. FL, i., 172. Syn.: Talinum 

 polyandrum, Hook. N.O. Portulacese. "Coonda" of the 

 aboriginals about Shark's Bay, Western Australia. Found 

 in the interior of New South Wales, South, Western, and 

 Northern Australia. 



Sheep can largely feed on this succulent shrub for a considerable 

 time without drinking water. (Mueller and Forrest, "Plants 

 indigenous about Shark's Bay, W.A.," 1 883). The same observation 

 is doubtless true of the other Claytonias, and also of the closely 

 related Portulaca oleracea, the common Purslane. 



30. Chionanthus ramiflora, Roxb., B. FL, iv., 301. Mayepea 

 ramiflora, F.v.M. in Muell. Cens., p. 92. Syn.: C. effusiflora 

 F.v.M. ; Linociera effusiflora, F.v.M. ; L. ramiflora, DC. ; 

 Mayepea ramiflora, F.v.M. N. 0. Jasminese. Found in 

 Queensland. 



The fruit of this plant is the food of the Jagged-tailed Bower- 

 bird ( Prionodura Newtoniana). (Bailey.) This observation is 

 interesting, and is the more valuable in that the vegetable foods 

 of our indigenous fauna have very rarely been botanically 

 determined. This plant is not endemic in Australia. 



31. Claytonia (Calandrinia) Balonnensis or balonensis, Lindl., 

 B. FL, i., 172. N.O. PortulaceaB. " Munyeroo of natives of 

 South Australia. " Periculia " of natives of Central Australia. 

 (Fraym., x., 71.) Found in South Australia, New South 

 Wales and Queensland. 



Mr. S. Dixon states that a large mob of cattle, destined to stock 

 -a Northern Territory run, travelled some 200 miles without a 



