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Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

CHAPTER 10
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( ?) : Gouty-stemmed Capparis : Soft, spongy, and full of sap : 30 : 9 feet.
Cycadeae : Cycas media.

Brown : Australian Cycas, or Sago Palm : Fibrous and coarse, similar to Palm : 4 to 15 : 4 to 6.
Sapoteae : Mimusops parvifolia.

Brown : Small-leaved Zapadilla : Close grain : 10 to 15 : 4 to 5.
Meliaceae : Carapa, sp.

closely related to molluccensis.Lam.

: Maritime Carapa : Soft and brittle (a mangrove) : 25 : 6.
"From the summit of the ridge," says Mr.Cunningham, "immediately above Careening Bay, the country continues in a series of barren, stony hills of ordinary elevation, divided by small valleys equally sterile and rugged; clothed, nevertheless, with small trees of a stunted growth, and of species common to the bay of our encampment; nor was there remarked the least change in the habit or state of fructification of the several plants, throughout the whole space of an estimated distance of six miles south of the tents.
"The summits of the hills are, for the most part, very rocky and bare of soil; and that of the valleys, or lower lands, appeared very shallow, of a reddish colour, and of a very poor, hungry nature.


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