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He was a fine built able young fellow, just about her own age, and without any ado she bade him 
good-day, and entered into conversation with him, and he walked with her to the camp by the waterhole. 
There the two became good friends and lived together, and after a time she gave birth “to a son and a 
daughter, and as they grew up they went lower down the creek, and settled on the same lines, and were 
happy.” 
That is the legend as I got it. I asked him to show me the other bush, but he did not know it, 
saying that “Old man Jimmy” would show me, and since that time I have never met Jimmy in the 
neighbourhood. 
If I remember rightly, there is a tree origin belief among the Hindoos, and I have heard similar 
legends among the natives of Borneo. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. 
A. A single flower. 
b. The flower opened out, showing petals, stamens, and ovary. 
c. A stamen. 
d. View of pistil with calyx. 
a. Stigma. 
b. Style. 
c. Ovary. 
d. Calyx. 
e. Cluster of fruits, capsules, dehiscing, showing the seeds. 
Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer.—1902. 
