Oak trees and drooping Melaleucas grew abundantly in its bed, and along the banks.

Higher up we crossed fine flats with lagoons and lakes covered as usual with Nymphaeas.

We encamped in latitude 18 degrees 32 minutes 37 seconds, after passing a Casuarina creek, with high banks and a sandy bed.

This creek separated the table land from a broken low range of hills, composed of a coarse-grained sandstone.

The banks of the river here seemed to have been swept away; a broad sheet of sand, covered with fine drooping tea trees, was slightly furrowed by a narrow stream of water, which seemed for the greater part filtering through the sands; chains of water-holes at its left side, fringed with Casuarinas, appeared to be anabranches of the river, and to be connected with the main stream during the rainy season.
I have to mention that a species of Sciadophyllum, nearly allied to Sc.
lucidum, (Don.iii.p.