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Digitaria didactyla (blue couch), Cyperus gracilis, ('. 
cnerris, ('. minis, some Ottochloa yracillima, Commclinu 
cyanca (wandering jew. scurvy grass), and other her- 
baceous plants, including Salvia cocci lira and I tticu 
incisa (native nettle). 
Between the river bank and the hills is a broad 
alluvial flat with a grassy open forest of Eucalytus t<n- 
ticornis (blue gtun; recorded in the former paper as 
E. umbellata) and Angophora subvelutina (apple). Tms- 
tania suaveolens (swamp mahogany) is sometimes common 
near depressions. The trees have been partly removed 
from these flats. The chief grasses are Paspalum dila- 
tatum (paspalum) and Bothriochlou decipicns (pitted blue 
grass), but a number of other plants occur, though not 
abu ndantlv. 
Eucalyptus forest, with a good ground-cover of 
grasses, occupies the greater part of the area. A mixed 
euealypt forest was the most widely spread, particularly 
on slopes of medium steepness with podzolised soil, but 
has undergone considerable clearing. The chief trees 
are Eucalyptus crebra (narrow-leaved iron-bark: re- 
corded in the earlier paper as E. racemosa), E. den pin 
(grey iron-bark), E. luelanophloia (silver-leaved iron- 
bark). E. tessellaris (Moreton Bay ash), E. gummifera 
(or perhaps E. intermedia ; bloodwood), and occasionally 
the small trees Alphitonia excelsa (red ash) and Exo- 
carpus eupressi for mis (native cherry; a root-parasite). 
Lantana ■ camara is occasional. The ground-cover is rich, 
about 65 species having been recorded; the most abundant 
are Bothriochloa decipicns. Aristida ramosa, Erugrostis 
leptostachya (meadow love-grass), Digitaria didactyla 
(blue couch), Desmodium various (tick trefoil), Glycim 
tabacina (glycine pea k Z ornia diphylla. (Hossogym tenui- 
folia, and II click rysum apirulatum. On the higher steep 
slopes this forest gives way to one dominated by 
Eucalyptus crebra, Casuarina torulosa (forest oak), and 
Xanlhorrhoca arborca (grass— tree). The ground-cover is 
dense, but poor in species, composed chiefly of Thcmcdn 
australis (kangaroo grass) and Poa australis. On the 
highest part of the range to the west of the dem is a 
rather different tall forest of Eucalyptus triantha (white 
stringy bark ; miscalled in the earlier paper E. cameo 
and a grey-gum, probably E. punctata. Here, at an 
