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islands the only timber. This is probably the nearest ap- 
proach of the species to the equinoctial line ; and although 
it occupies an area of nine hundred miles, it is very pro- 
bably limited in Terra Australis to its immediate shores ; 
and, as appears to be the case with Pandanus, exists only 
within the influence of the sea air. 
Calladium macrorhizon, Willd,, formerly observed by 
Sir Joseph Banhs, at Endeavour River, on the East Coast, 
has been recently detected in moist woods, in the country 
off which the Five Islands are situate, extending on that 
shore to latitude 35° South ; and Schelhammera multiflora, 
Rr., a delicate plant of Melanthaceee, discovered likewise 
at Endeavour River, abounds in shady forests, in latitude 
31°, upon the same extensive coast. 
The following plants, formerly considered as indigenous 
only in Van Diemen’s Land, have been recently ascertained 
to exist also in New South Wales, in or about the parallel of 
the colony of Port Jackson. 
Croton viscosum, Labill, originally discovered on the 
South-west Coast, was seen in the interior, as far to the 
westward of the colony as longitude 146° East. 
Croton quadripartitum, LabilL, was observed in longi- 
tude 148°. 
Goodia lotifolia, Salisb., was remarked sparingly in the 
interior, in the meridian of 147° 30' East; and Daviesia 
latifolia of Mr. Brown is very frequent in societies upon 
plains at Bathurst, in longitude 149° East, where also Eryn- 
gium vesiculosum, of Labillardiere, was observed. 
Aster argophyllus and obovatus, Labill. These two spe- 
cies were described by Mons. Labillardiere, from speci- 
mens gathered in the southern extremes of the above 
island, and have been lately seen tolerably frequent in a 
remarkable tract of country, in latitude 34°, on the limit 
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