Describes the vegetation along a line of sandhills viewed north-west from Mt Crombie. Includes mulga (Acacia aneura), desert oak (Allocasuarina decaisneana), mallee (eucalypts), kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus), native poplars (Codonocarpus), poison bush, porcupine bush [grass] (Triodia scariosa), mulga grass. Sandhills covered with tracks from hare wallabies (Lagorchestes asomatus), bandicoots (Isoodon obesulus), dingos (Canis dingo or Canis lupis dingo or Canis familiaris dingo). On 19 July [1933] east of Mt Kintore (SA) came upon a dry rock holes in a low granite out-crop two or three chains in diameter and found kurrajong seeds. Drawing of a kurrajong tree leaf.
1. Photograph: Landscape (sandhills) from Mt Crombie.
2. Photograph: Kurrajong tree (Brachychiton populneus)
Places mentioned: Mt Crombie (SA); Mt Kintore (SA)
People mentioned: Tinny [NB Tindale] (See AA 338)
Fauna mentioned: Hare wallabies (Lagorchestes asomatus); bandicoots (Isoodon obesulus); dingos (Canis dingo or Canis lupis dingo or Canis familiaris dingo).
Flora mentioned: Mulga (Acacia aneura); desert oak (Allocasuarina decaisneana); mallee (eucalypts); kurrajong (Brachychiton populneus); native poplars (Codonocarpus); poison bush; porcupine bush [grass] (Triodia scariosa); mulga grass; kurrajong tree leaf (Brachychiton populneus)