100 The Queensland Naturalist 
March 1948 
Verbenaceae 
Callicarpa pedunculata R.Br. 
N 
CF 
Labiatae 
Salvia coccinea L. 
Th 
F 
Commelinaceae 
Commelina cyanea R.Br. 
H, creeping 
F, 2 
Orchidaceae 
Pierostylis langifolia R.Br. 
G 
7 
Cyperaceae 
Cyperus laevis R.Br. 
H 
1-2 
Cyperus leiocaulon Benth. 
H 
2, 9 
Cyperus retzii Nees 
G 
2 
Gramineae 
Brachiaria whitei (Domin) 
C. E. Hubbard 
Th 
1-2 
Chloris virgata Sw. 
Digitaria adscendens (H.B.K.) 
Th 
roadside weed 
Henr. 
Th 
F 
Echinochloa crus-pavonis 
(H.B.K.) Schult. 
Echinopogon nutans 
Th 
F, 2 
C. E. Hubbard 
H 
1, 2 
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. 
Leptochloa debilis Stapf ex 
Th 
2 
C. E. Hubbard 
H 
CF 
Perotis rara R.Br. 
Th 
2, chiefly 
edges of small 
banks 
Ottochloa gracillima 
C. E. Hubbard 
Vetiveria tilipes (Benth.) 
H 
F 
C. E. Hubbard 
H 
2-F 
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL AS A COLLECTOR 
OF FOSSILS 
By Dr. F. AY. WHITEHOUSE 
(Dept, of Geology, University of Queensland). 
The Australian aboriginal, like most nomads, is not 
a great collector of bric-a-brac, and 1 do not know of 
any record, in literature, that, he was particularly 
interested in carrying around fossil plants or animals 
purely for their curio value. That only rarely did he 
do so is fortunate indeed ; for otherwise great confusion 
could have arisen in our records by the garnering of 
collections of mixed materials from aboriginal haunts. 
