5. Dioscorea punctata, R. Br. Long yam. Kowar.
A small rough, twining creeper. Leaves heart-shaped and smooth. Flowers terminal. The cluster of the winged capsule look, to an unacquainted observer, like the flowers of the common hop. (Small young tubers eatable.)
6. Helocharis sphacelata, Rush. Kaya.
Lagoons, creeks, and ponds. Small, almost spherical tubers, six to twelve in each plant.
Stems, or Flower-stalks.
7. Nymphæa gigantea, Hook. Blue water-lily. Yako Kalor, Rockh. tribe; Kaooroo, Cleveland Bay tribe. Very abundant in all lagoons and ponds. (Flower-stalks of the unexpanded flowers, after being broken and deprived of their fibrous part, are eatable.)}}}}
8. Xanthorrhœa sp. Grass-tree. Kono.
Over ridges and mountain sides. (Small part of the extremities of the young shoots and the white tender base of leaves eatable.)
9. Livistonia Australis, F. Muell. Cabbage-tree palm. Konda.
Found in valleys and gorges seventy to 120 feet in height. (White part of the undeveloped leaves eatable.) "Several of my companions suffered by eating too much of the cabbage-palm."—Leichhardt's Overland Expedition, page 72.
Fruits.
10. Melodorum Leichhardtii, Benth., F. Muell. Merangara.
A small shrub, sometimes a strong tall creeper. Bark aromatic. Producing in the top of our scrub trees an oblong or almost round fruit, with one or two seeds.
11. Capparis Mitchelli, Lind. Wild pomegranate. Mondo.[1]
In open plain. A small tree of a very crooked growth. Bark longitudinally fissurated. Trunk and branches covered with short prickles, the branches nearly always drooping. Flowers white. Fruit large oblong or spherical, two to three inches in diameter.
12. Capparis canescens, Banks. Native date. Mondoleu.[2]
In scrub or open forest land. A creeper, ascending small shrubs or large trees, with stipulate hooked prickles. Leaves oblong. Flowers white. Fruit pyriform, half inch in diameter.
13. Capperis nobilis, F. Muell. Small native pomegranate. Rarum.
A small scrub tree, with stipulate prickles on the branches. Leaves oval oblong. Flowers white. Fruit globular, one to one and a half inch in diameter, with a small protuberance at the end.
14. Grewia polygama, Roxbh. Plain currant. Karoom, Rockh. tribe; Cleveland Bay tribe, Ouraie.
A small shrub, found amongst grass. Large, alternate, ovate serrated leaves. Berries brown and smooth, two or four in an axillary peduncle. Leichhardt speaks of this small plant in his journal, page 295:—"I found a great quantity of ripe Grewia seeds, and, on eating many of them it struck me that their slightly acidulated taste, if imparted to water, would make a very good drink. I therefore gathered as many as I could, and boiled them for about
