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 Under the belief that this truly beautiful species is new, I have given it the name of Boronia Molloyi, after the lady of Capt. Molloy, late of the Rifles and now Government-Resident of the Vasse District. You may have heard Capt. Mangles speak of Mrs. Molloy, who has sent him many seeds and specimens of the productions of this country; she has long been ardently attached to Botany, and cultivates plants with great success. The Maurandia Barclayana grows on her house and blooms abundantly, climbing to the very roof, and in her garden I first saw that lovely Phlox which you named after my deceased brother, and which flowered there for the first time in this colony: Mrs. Molloy had previously shown me a drawing of this species, in the beautiful groups of annuals published by Mrs. Loudon.

During my late journey, which I undertook principally to obtain accurate information of the above-mentioned Dasypogon in a growing state, concerning which I had heard many contradictory accounts, I met with several Proteaceæ that had never before fallen in my way. One of them, belonging to the genus Lambertia, grows thirty feet high, with a trunk three feet in diameter. Judging from some imperfect flowers which still remained on the shrub, the blossoms appear to be greenish-yellow, and not very conspicuous or showy, and the species belongs to the one-flowered division of the genus. This character, however, is by no means invariable, for in two or three individuals of this plant, I have observed the flowers in pairs. The tree itself has the bark as rugged as an English Elm. Along with this Lambertia, and rivalling it in height and thickness, grew a Hakea, that was new to me; its bark too was of a similar character. It appears nearly allied to H. mixta (Lindl.) or, at least, to what I suppose to be an arborescent variety of that species, for the common mixta is here a bushy shrub, only about four or six feet high: but this wants the filiform foliage altogether, and