218 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN FORAGE PLANTS. 



56. Heterodendron ole^efolium, Desf., B. Fl. i., 469. N.O. 

 Sapindacese. "Emu Bush," " Jiggo " and "Behreging" are 

 aboriginal names. Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania. 



The seeds which are dry, are eaten by emus. Mr. S. Dixon 

 states that both sheep and cattle feed greedily upon it. 



57. Hibiscus heterophyllus, Vent., B. Fl., i., 212. Syn. : H. 

 grandiflorus, Salisb. N.O. Malvaceae. " Green Kurrajong." 

 " Dtharang-gange " is an aboriginal name. Found in New 

 South Wales and Queensland. 



The leaves, branches and bark of this tree are greedily eaten by 

 cattle in winter. They are mucilaginous, in common with other 

 plants of this natural order. 



58. Jacksonia scoparia var. macrocarpa, R. Br., B. FL, ii., 60. 



J. eupulifera, in Muell. Cens., p. 34. Syn. : J. cujjulifera y 

 Meissn. N. O. Leguminosse. " Dogwood." Found in 

 Western Australia. 



Cattle and horses relish the foliage of this small tree amazingly. 

 (Mueller.) 



59. Kochia aphylla, R. Br., B. FL, v., 188. Considered by 



Baron Mueller to be a variety of K. villosa, (Muell. Cens. p. 

 30). N.O. Chenopodiace«3. A Salt-bush. Found in all the 

 Colonies except Tasmania. 



" All kinds of stock are often largely dependent on it during 

 protracted droughts, and when neither grass nor hay are obtainable 

 I have known the whole bush chopped up and mixed with a little 

 corn, when it proved an excellent fodder for horses. One 

 drawback it has, its stems being very fibrous, and the older portions 

 indigestibly so, it is the principal cause of those bezoars or felted 

 knobs in the manipulus of the sheep, which in very protracted 

 droughts kill them by hundreds. When, however, the rains come, 

 and soft herbage is abundant, these bezoars either partially dissolve 

 or become covered with a shiny black coating, so that they 

 resemble a papier-mache ball." 



60. Kochia pyramidata, Bentham, B. FL, v., 186. N. 0. 

 Chenopodiacese. " Blue-bush." Found in South Australia, 

 Victoria, and New South Wales. 



An analysis of this Salt-bush by Mr. W. A. Dixon is to be 

 found in Proc. Royal Society, M.S. W., 1880, p. 133. 



61. Kochia villosa, Lindl., B. FL, v., 186. Syn.: K.tomentosa, 



F.v.M.; K. pubescens, Moq.; Maireana tomentosa, Moq. N.O. 

 Chenopodiacege. Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania. 



