The cucurbitaceous plant with palmate leaves, bore a fruit of the size of a large orange, of a fine scarlet colour when ripe; its rind is exceedingly bitter, but the seeds are eaten by birds.

Mr.Phillips found a flesh-coloured drupaceous oblong fruit, about half an inch long, with a very glutinous pericarp, containing a slightly compressed rough stone: in taste it resembled the fruit of Loranthus, and the birds, particularly the coekatoos, appeared very fond of it.

We all ate a great quantity of them, without the slightest injury.

It grew on a small tree, and had a persistent calyx.
April 20 .-- We travelled in a N.80 degrees W.course to latitude 19 degrees 9 minutes 88 seconds.

Rocky ranges frequently approached the river, and deep and intricate gullies descended from them to the latter.
Our progress was consequently very difficult, and we were compelled to ascend a very high hill to avoid its slopes towards the river, which were too steep for us to cross.