Captain James Mangles, and to Mr. Toward, gardener to 
H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester. It was also met with 
by Major Sir T. L. Mitchell, during his important expedition 
to the Rivers Darling and Murray in the year 1836, and 
was named by me in the note to his account of the proceed- 
ings of his party. 
It is a half-hardy annual, flowering abundantly in the 
open border during the summer, and although not appearing 
very pretty in a plate, is sufficiently striking to deserve 
cultivation, for the surface of its flowers is glossy like those 
of the cockscomb. 
Fig. 1. is a magnified view of a single flower; fig. 2. re- 
presents the cup, stamens and ovary, whose style is clothed 
with straggling hairs, one of which is seen magnified at 
fig. 4.; and fig. 3. exhibits a section of an ovary, with the 
ovule and the funiculus, from whose end it hangs suspended. 
At Swan River are two other species, whose beauty would 
make them most desirable plants to introduce; as neither 
of them are described, 1 beg to name the one after my ex- 
cellent friend Captain James Mangles, R.N. to whom Í am 
indebted for a fine collection of dried New Holland plants, 
and the other after His Excellency Sir James Stirling, who 
has done so much for the introduction of new plants to 
England during his government of the Swan River colony. 
Tr. Manglesii ; caulibus simplicibus ascendentibus sulcatis foliisque spathulatis 
acutis undulatis glabris, capitulis maximis ovatis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, sepalis apice erosis et serrulatis calvis basi pilis densissimis lana- 
tis, cyatho staminum integerrimo brevissimo, stylo glabro. Heads three 
inches across. Flowers pink at the tips, silvery at the base. 
Tr. Stirlingii ; caulibus flexuosis ramosis puberulis, foliis lineari-oblongis acutis- 
simis sessilibus, capitulis spheericis subsolitariis, bracteis subrotundis cuspi- 
datis, sepalis truncatis ad apicem usque villosis intus basi lanatis, cyatho 
staminum brevissimo integerrimo. Heads rather less than an inch and a 
half across, silvery, just tinged with pink. 
