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Dr. Roth, In " North Queensland Ethnography," Bull. No. 3, speaking of this 
species, says : 
Heart hammered and roasted at lied Island. On the Pennefathcr Rivor, the " heart " is baked 
i i ashes, then uncovered and holes made in it with a stock. Water is next dribbled into each hole, and 
the vegetable left to cool. It i* finally either beaten up and eaten, or else put into water w hich.it sweetens 
and is drunk, lied Island, " inmuru " ; Ponncfathcr and Batavia Rivers, " dre-amberi." 
Bailey (p. 1684), says : 
The above two palms (Muelkri and Benthami) may probably have been taken by botanists for one 
or other of those doubtful species of Robert Brown, viz. L. htimilis and L. ine-rmis. I gave them 
provisionilly in the work quoted as varieties of the former, but as doubts still exist regarding the identity 
of that species, I have thought it better, in the present case, to give them specific rank bearing the names 
of the authors of the " Flora Australieosis." 
[That Mueller was an " author " of the " Flora Australiensis " was always 
warmly repudiated by Bentham. J.H.M.] 
6. L. Mar ice F.v.M., Fragin., xi, 54, 1878. 
Mueller quotes Giles' " Geographical Travels in Central Australia," p. 222 (1875), 
for the original description, and further describes it (in Latin). 
He states that it is abundant on the Fortescue River, North-west Australia 
(F. Gregory and J. Forrest), and in " Glen of Palms," Macdonnell Range, Central 
Australia (E. Giles). 
Bailey (" Queensland Flora," p. 1684) doubtfully refers a portion of a leaf from 
the Campaspe River, Queensland, to this species. 
But see Dr. Udo Dammer in Gard. Chron., 21st October, 1905, p. 297, for an 
account of the confusion which has gathered around L. Marice F.v.M. and L. Alfredi 
F.v.M. , and allied species. 
' Mueller (under L. humilis) refers to this species a Palm found by Giles in the 
so-called Glen of Palms, Macdonnell Range, in the interior, but the only leaf I have 
seen looks rather like that of L. auslralis. It cannot, however, be determined without 
flower or fruit." (B.Fl., vii, 146.) This is L. Marice F.v.M. 
Livistona Marice F. v. Mueller. Central and West Australia, barely within 
the tropics. This noble Fan Palm attains 40 feet in height, and is likely to prove 
very hardy. 
Then we come to a " Note on the Wesc Australian Fan Palm," by Baron von 
Mueller : 
It is known since the discovery of the Hammersley Ranges, fully thirty years ago, that a Livistona 
I'.iltn occurs on the Mill-stream there, far isolated from any other species of that genus ; but former incomplete 
specimens led to the- surmise that this palm might be identical with Livistona Maria, a species restricted 
tj the Palm-glen and several valleys of the Macdonnell Ranges in Central Australia. The last-mentioned 
palm we know now through Mr. J. EJgar, of the Rockhampton Botanic Garden, to be, while in a young 
state of cultivation, much more robust and upright in foliage than L. austmlis, besides the leaves at the 
eirly age of the plant being of a " rich bronzy colour." This particular characteristic seems neither to 
apply to the West Australian species, as ascertained by the Hon. Captain Phillips and Mr. H. Keep from 
