I saw but one flower of it, but its falcate seed-vessels, often more than a foot long, were very numerous.

Pandanus spiralis was frequent.

The box (Eucalyptus), on the flats along the creek, the soil of which is probably formed of the detritus of basaltic rock, had a lanceolate glossy leaf, uniting the character of the box with glossy orbicular leaves growing generally on the whinstone soil of the northern parts of the colony, and of the box with long lanceolate leaves which prefers stiff flats on the tributary creeks of the Hunter.

A Bottle-tree with a Platanus leaf (Sterculia ?) grew in the scrub on the field of basalt, and was in full blossom.

A pretty species of Commelyna, on the flats, a cucurbitaceous plant with quinquepalmate leaves and large white blossoms, grew along the river, the approaches of which were rendered almost inaccessible by a stiff high grass.