222 INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN FORAGE PLANTS. 



76. Rhagodia Billardieri, R.Brown, B. FL, v., 152. Syn. : 

 R. baccata, Moq. ; R. Candolleana, Moq. ; Chenopodium 

 baccatum, Labill. N.O. Chenopodiacese. Found in all the 

 Colonies. 



This is an important bush for binding moving sand on sea-shores. 

 (Mueller.) It is eaten by stock. 



77. Rhagodia parabolica, R. Br., B. Fl., v., 153. Syn. : R. 

 reclinata, A. Cunn. N.O. Chenopodiacese. "Salt-bush." 

 Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania. 



This plant is relished by stock. 



78. Sarcostemma australe, R. Br., B. Fl., iv., 328. N.O. 



Asclepiadere. Called " Caustic Plant " or " Caustic Vine " 

 in Queensland ; " Gaoloowurrah " by the aboriginals at Port 

 Darwin. Found in all the Colonies except Victoria and 

 Tasmania. 



In the Warrego District, Queensland, a great number of fat 

 cattle have perished from eating this plant. The death of sheep 

 from eating it is also well authenticated. (Bailey & Gordon.) 



Yet Mr. J. Dixon stated he had not known stock to touch this 

 plant till the summer of 1880-1, when the cattle on the eastern 

 plains of South Australia lived upon it, without water, for some 

 months of continued drought. (Proc. R.S., S.A., iv., 136.) 



79. ScleroltENA bicornis, Lindl., B. Fl., v., 195. Bassia 

 bicornis in Muell. Cens., p. 30. This must not be confounded 

 with the Sapotaceous genus Bassia of Linn., which are 

 usually large trees. (Genera Plantarum, Benth. & Hook., 

 ii., 658.) Syn. : Chenolea bicornis, (Vide Proc. R.S., 1880) ; 

 Kentropsis lanata, Moq. ; Anisacantha bicornis, F. v. M. ; 

 Bassia bicornis, F. v. M. N.O. Chenopodiacere. " Cotton- 

 bush." Found in all the Colonies except Tasmania and 

 Western Australia. 



[N.B. — In Mr. Dixon's paper the name is given as Chenolea 

 ■bicornis. There is no such species. It is probably intended for 

 Sclerolcena bicornis.'] 



An analysis of this salt-bush by Mr. W. A. Dixon is in the 

 Proc. Royal Society. N.S.W., 1880,'p. 133. 



80. Sesbania ;egyptiaca, Pers., B. FL, ii., 212. Syn. 

 JEschynomene se&ban, Linn. N.O. Leguminosse. "Ngeen- 

 jerry " of the aboriginals of the Cloncurry River (North 

 Queensland). Found in Northern Australia. 



The leaves and branches are cut for cattle-fodder in India. 

 {Gamble.) 



