Country between Moreton Bay and Port Essington. 101 
At the head of the Isaacks and in the valley of lagoons we 
found a purple fruit with a many-celled seed-vessel. The thin 
rind had a slightly stringent acidulous agreeable taste. The tree 
had a pinnate leaf resembling that of the red cedar. 
Santalum lanceolatum yielded occasionally blue edible berries 
of the size of small cherries. 
Fusanus, which is mentioned in Sir Thomas Mitchell’s expedi¬ 
tions, gave us a rich harvest of fruit in the bottle-tree scrubs west 
of Darling Downs. 
I frequently collected the small red fruits of rhagodia; but 
they were not worth the trouble, and I willingly left them to the 
bronze-winged pigeons, the crops of which at Comet River were 
crowded with them. 
A native mulberry with small white fruit, of a sweet taste, grew 
on the fields of lava, at the Burdekin ; and an edible fruit of a 
white colour, with persistent calyx, and viscous, like the fruit of 
the mistletoe, grew on a small tree along the upper course of the 
same river. 
Several species of figs, the rough purple fig (ficus muntia), the 
small round yellow fruit of ficus Australis, and the clustered fig 
of the Burdekin, were successively gathered. The latter yielded 
by far the richest harvest, as numerous bunches of the fruit were 
sprouting out of the trunk and largest branches from top to 
bottom. They were of the size of a small garden fig, of a yellow 
colour when ripe, but generally full of small flies and black ants. 
They were very heavy and indigestible, and we several times 
suffered from eating too many of them. 
Careya arborea? (belonging to the Barringtoneae) bore a harm¬ 
less fruit, which, however, we never found perfectly ripe. 
The little gooseberry-tree (coniogeton arborescens ? belonging 
to the Terebinthaceae) had a fruit of the size of a small compressed 
cherry, which we boiled, when not yet ripe enough, to obtain from 
it an acidulous drink, but which was very agreeable to eat when 
sufficiently ripened. 
The seed vessels of pandanus spiralis, when ripe, contain a 
very sweet pear-like pulp between their fibres. It is very agreeable 
