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scandens, the famous “ match-box bean,” with its giant pods. 
Densely packed to right and left are still the beautiful cabbage- 
palms, A vchontophcenix Cunninyhami, formerly known as 
Seaforthia elegans. The trunks of these graceful trees, so 
characteristic of the Johnstone scenery, are used for making 
bridges over creeks, while the upper portion of the stem is 
eaten by the wild native. Lawyer-palms, Calamus caryotoides, 
continue equally abundant. 
But anything I may have written already in attempted 
description of the scenery on the river’s banks will convey but 
a very poor idea of the prodigality of vegetable life in the 
thick of the Johnstone scrub. In the course of my voyages 
I have seen many of Nature’s beauties, but, to my mind, not 
even Ceylon equals the Johnstone in the lush of tropical flora. 
In the deep recesses of the jungle, besides the plants already 
mentioned, flourish magnificent specimens of the fan palm, 
towering up here and there, and mingling with the others in 
extravagant profusion. Even the birds’-nest fern, Asplenium 
nidus, must have a place, and attaches itself to any excrescence 
high up the trunks of various trees. Kentia monostachya 
and Areca alicce are other examples of the palms. I also saw 
Bowenia spectabilis of the cycads, Selayinella leptostachya of 
the lycopods, and Oplismenus compositus, Eleusine Indica and 
Centotkeca lappacea of the Graminecc, and obtained specimens. 
I also came across a member of the Solanacea , strongly allied 
to the “ Dead Sea apples,” which I gathered some years ago 
near Jericho when travelling in Palestine. I have also seen 
a similar plant at Botany Bay. 
Did space and time allow I could write a volume on my 
Queensland travels. I took extensive meteorological obser¬ 
vations on the coast between Brisbane and the Albert River 
in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and have obtained samples of 
many of the mollusca inhabiting these seas; besides making 
geological and botanical collections, and taking voluminous 
notes during long journeys inland. 
THE MONUMENTAL BRASSES OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
BY E. W. BADGER, M . A. 
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WARWICK, St. Mary’s. I .—Thus, de Beauchamp , 
Earl of Warwick, 1401. and Countess Maryt. Haines. 
These magnificent effigies, which are 5ft. long, arc now 
mural, and are placed above the entrance to the Beauchamp 
