at the country before starting to cut trail, but he is headed in the right direction and is making very good progress. We signalled each other about the middle of the morning. The summit of the 1000 foot outlier carries a dense brushy forest dominated mainly by Tristania suaveolens and much entangled by wiry vines underneath. The vines chiefly a Smilax and Flagellaris indica var. minor. The crests and slopes of rocky bluffs carry an open tree-scrub of a Leptospermum (13346) which is one of the most beautiful trees I have ever seen. In its contorted shapeliness it resembles the dwarfed, pot-grown gxire of the Japanese. Its thin, smooth bark is a soft shade of reddish-purple, and itsrigreenish yellow wood is so very hard that the blade of my machete was all crinkled from cutting through it. This Leptospermum is the so-called "Smooth-barked turkey bush" of the lower country. Showers which fell on the lower country of Iron Range during the day did not reach inland to the range, although one heavy one came as far as our camp, situated at about 300 feet elevation. Thursday, July 1: Yesterday George and his boy climbed the range again and cut more trail, reaching an elevation of about 1500 ft. Found good water at a place reported suitable for a campeedsite. Today, with Willie, I climbed to the high places, followed all of George's cut trails, and cut trail from George's line to near the base of Mt. Tozer. Following are elaborated route notes. Altitudes are by aneroid. Two or more altitude readings were made at various points. 8 a.m. Left Tozer Gap Camp. Willie carrying, besides plant collecting gear, 5 cans meat, 2 billycens, quantity of tea and sugar; self an Egyptian cotton fly weighing 10 lbs. Barometer 350 ft. 8:10: Crossed stream where trail enters rainforest at start of climb. Running 4 ft. wide in rocky granite bed. Many fan and feather palms in forest. Alt. 350 ft. 8:25: Crossed dry rocky gully. True rainforest has replaced bastard growth of Tris- tania and Scierie. 425 ft. 8:45: Rest at 7:50 ft. Forest thinning; Tristania and Acacia again with true rain- forest trees. Many pandans on rockier slopes. 8:50: On up steeper and rockier slope. 8:57: Stop at a rock lookout in rather open low scrub of red teatree, wattle, Casuarina, etc., with Cladium undergrowth. Alt. 950 ft. 9:10: On. Slope very steep and rocky. 9:15: Lookout from flat rock 1100 ft. A form of turkey bush scrub 6-10 ft. high, of black teatree, red teatree, wattle, red-b prok Leptospermum, Casuarina and golden Grevillea, with pale yellow Hibbertia and Cladium undergrowth. Splendid view, but weather too thick for photos. 9:25: On. 8:30: Summit of Main ridge of range. Low, dry type of rainforest 25 ft. high. Alt. 1250 ft. 9:45: Traveling through rainforest close under comb of the ridge, on west side, and reached junction of a spur trail leading down to water. Blazed tree marked.