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GOODENIACE/E. 
Leschenaultia divaricata. The Arunta tribe derive a pitchy substance 
from the root of this shrub, which they told me they used for the same kind 
of purposes as the resinous substance extracted from porcupine grass (Tnodia 
pungens) (q.v. injra). The Luritchas, whom I questioned on the subject, said 
they ate the root, tliough I had no opportunity of observing the act. 
ASCLEPIADACE/E. 
Marsdenia Leichhardtiana. The unripe or even the ripe fruit of this plant 
are eaten. In the latter condition they form a food which, I should say, was 
about as palatable and nutritious as sawdust. 
SOLANACE/E. 
I saw the natives pluck and eat, in the raw state, the fruit of Solaimm 
esuriale, S. ellipticuin and S. petrophiliDH,. and I could not learn that any poisonous 
properties were attached to tliem. Near Fowler’s Bay, in the Great Bight, they 
are reported to eat the fruit of S. hystrix* but only after removing the dry 
prickly calyx and seeds and making the remainder into a cake with the pounded 
and baked bark of mallee roots (Eucalyptus^ sp.), or if eaten raw only after being 
buried for a few days (Tate). So, also, in the same locality the fruit of S. simile 
is eaten, but not until it has fallen to the ground. 
MYOPORINE/E. 
Myoporum Dampieri. The I’ed drupes are eaten. 
LILIACE/€. 
Xanthorrhcea Tiiorntoni. The white basal parts of the inner leaves are 
eaten raw or roasted in the ashes. 
CYCADE/E. 
Encephalartos Macdonnelli. Maidenf reports that the kernels of the 
seeds of certain species of Encephalartos are eaten after precautions to remove the 
* Annie E. Richards, Trans. R. Soc. S.A., vol. iv., p. 130. 
t “ Useful Native Plants of Australia.” Maiden, p. 40. 
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