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The Queensland xSaturalist, 
VoL. I; 
Ordsr. 
Oemis, 
Species. 
Xyrideae 
Xyris 
complanata 
Commelynaceae 
Aneilema 
gramineum 
Juncaceae 
Xerotes 
filiformis 
Xanthorrhaea 
hastilis 
Filices 
Schizaea 
bifida 
Gleichenia 
circinata 
Lindsaea 
Fraseri 
Lindsaea 
incisa 
Clieilanthes 
tenuifolia 
Pteris 
aquilina 
Polypodium 
punctatum 
Blechnum 
serrulatum 
TAMBOURINE MOUNTxVIN.* 
By John Shirley, B. Sc. 
I. General. 
Travellers to Southport and the Tweed, when crossing 
the bridge at the Coomera River, see Tambourine Mountain 
as a long flat-topped mass, lying W.S.W. It forms part 
of the Coast Range, separating the Upper Logan basin 
from the basins of the rivers Piiupama, Coomera and 
Nerang. The mountain can be reached either from Oxen- 
ford Station, on the Southport line, or from Logan Village 
Station, on the Beaudesert line. From Oxenford. the 
mountain summit is seventeen miles distant, and from 
Logan Village it has recently been measured at fifteen miles. 
A coach carries passengers from Logan Village to Capo 
di Monte, a boarding house on the summit, about a mile 
from the northern end of the Mountain. 
II. Height, Dimensions, etc. 
Roughly speaking, the axis of the mountain lies along 
a north and south line of seven miles in length. The 
greatest cross diameter from east to west is two miles. The 
northern end is precipitous ; but the southern end slopes 
much more gradually to the Canungera Saw Mill. Spurs 
run west to the trigonometrical beacon, east to Wongawmllon, 
etc., etc. The summit of the mountain is remarkably flat, 
and a horseman can ride for seven miles along the main 
track on the mountain as easily as along an ordinary road. 
The greatest height is 2,055 feet. The eastern and western 
sides are usually precipitous. To the west the mountain 
is flanked by what is known as the Cedar Shelf,” the drop 
to the shelf, and from the shelf to the base, being by almost 
sheer cliffs. 
* Address : Meeting, 8th May, 1908. 
