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BOTANISING ON THE SOUTHEKN BOEDER. 
Few herbs or shrubs of distinction meet the eye, amongst 
the exceptions being Eclipta platyglossa, whose trailing stems 
and small yellow flowers occur in all damp gullies, and a beauti- 
ful red and purple blotched orchid (Dipodium punctatum) which 
grows erect in the tall blady rushes of the creek bank. Swain- 
sona fraseri, with membraneous foliage and light bluish flowers, 
was also very noticeable, together with Aneilema gramineum, 
resembling the fringed violet minus the fringe. After a few miles 
rough travelling there is a change in the soil formation to such a 
rufous tint that one might fancy he were entering “ Eedmud.sky ' 
—naturally also the vegetation is slightly different. Casuariiia 
torulosa, the forest oak, Banksia integrifolia in fruit, the Brisbane 
box Tristania conferta, and the black wattles— Acacia implesa 
and longifoha, were all also very common. As we approach the 
boiler in every gully is a trickling stream with brackens (Pteris 
’ Ifi reddened over 
Creek arriving at the head of Koreelab 
into Xew s'Tw "f tributaries wending their waf 
into .Aew South ^\ ales, I found Myriophyllum variaTfoliiun the 
foiist7aks'Sr'’r'^ Haloragis tetragyna ; and here upon the 
loiest oaks giew Lorantlius lonffiflornq nnc i ^ 
with pinkish-white flowers. A preTt7nfo k 1 ^i^^^tletoes. 
was conspicuous, as were also the gLutfTvv le"''’"? 
(G. hederacea), the large fcetid flowered Sbbe C i 
only now ripening its fruit, the little shrub Hfobertfo M 7 ^ 
with its small and pleasantly scented velloi fl 
than three lines in diainetei^; Cassia fnim ^nore 
almost as sen.sitive as those of Mimosa 
bears ; a species of shrubliv * P^^ica, whose name it 
that dediLted 
flower nor fruit ; and a dwarf P va neither 
habit, about 4ft. high, the leaves nn!cft ^ gregarious 
silky oak (G. robusta). Now sun ^ /^ader than the common 
road we pass over to the Coiidaiiiinr?!'”^ 
heavily-timbered scrub, the trad 1 enter a dense, 
horses to force their way throud. w ‘1^'’ 
collect, but manage to find and seen- liardly time to 
cyaneus, a shrub known in all “f Eh-eocarpuS 
only 3,„.u f„i, ; . 
l^eath, Trochocarp^ 
