of the great fissure. The wash is in the form of a convex fan, many acres of the central part being simply bare sandstone debris. On the sides of this is open scrub of low Casuarina and some Ficus, containing numbers of grasses and herbs. The lower edges, where the lighter and finer materials have been deposited, are being colonized by reeds, which spread in rapids from the sides by means of long runners sprawling over the base seepage-wet surface. A species of Hypolytrum found in small patches out on the open wash, is similarly furnished with runners. Sunday, December 11, 1938. Visited an interesting strip of gallery forest, one of the few relics of original forest in the neighbourhood, on a stream flowing along the foot of the hills at the rear of camp. Castanopsis is the sole dominant as in the considerable forest remnants passed through on the route down from the Bele. Humata, likewise, is the characteristic ground cover. Close to the stream is an old stone wall, and the low spreading oaks and lichen-covered wall are not at all like New Guinea or the New Guinea most people know. Developed 8 x 10 pictures at night, in a very good darkroom made of grass. Monday, December 12, 1938. Feeling tired after an almost sleepless night - photographic chemicals always effect me -- I went but a little way up the river and gathered mostly plants of fairly recently established grassland on a patch of sandy country. Teerink had about fifty Casuarinas cut down lower down the river to facilitate the landing. Price one shell per tree.