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bauliinia adorned the scrubs with their rich white blossoms; and 
an arborescent cassia, with very long narrow seed-vessels, was 
observed between latitude 27° 30' and 19°. Careya arborea was 
first met with at the Suttor, the clustered fig-tree first at the 
Burdekin; grevillea mimosoides and hakea lorea appeared first 
in latitude 26° 42'. Grevillea lanceolata, a new species with 
broad lanceolate leaf, thus named by me, showed itself first at 
the Suttor, where it was growing on a light sandy soil with pan- 
danus spiralis. Grevillea ceratophylla, and acacia equisetifolia, 
were first met with in latitude 19° 19'. The poplar-gum, a spe¬ 
cies of eucalyptus with a bright green foliage, formed patches of 
forest along the Isaacks, and grew on the stiff hollows along the 
Burdekin. An arborescent zamia was growing on the heads of 
Zamia Creek and on Expedition Range, in latitude 24° 43'; a 
cycas about four to five feet high, with pinnate leaves of glaucus 
colour, on the Burdekin in latitude 18° 45'; and a sciadophyllum 
in the V alley of Lagoons in almost the same latitude. 
Nympheea was first observed on Brown’s Lagoons in latitude 
24° 45', and nelumbium near the Mackenzie, in latitude 23° 21'. 
When entering upon the system of the waters of the gulf, the 
character of the vegetation changed very considerably, and a 
number of new forms appeared, which bore resemblance to the 
flora of the Malay Islands and of India. The head of the Lynd 
was remarkably rich in various plants and trees. Here cochlos- 
permum gossypium and a rose-coloured sterculia attracted our 
attention by the beauty of its blossoms; and a species of eucalyptus 
with its butt covered by short foliaceous bark bearing seed-vessels 
of immense size, and blossoms of an orange colour. A rubiaceous 
tree belonging to the sarcocephalese was distinguished by its 
rich dark green umbrageous foliage, and a dwarf grevillea by its 
bunches of crimson-coloured flowers. Two species of terminalia 
either shaded the creeks or grew on the rocky slopes. Lower 
down the river, a species of stravadium, with loose drooping 
racemes of red blossoms, fringed the shallow swampy lagoons; 
and on the banks of the Mitchell, in latitude 15° 51', the corypha 
palm grew to a large size and in great numbers. 
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