264 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
for food, selecting such as are going to flower the following 
year. "The terminations of the roots of such plants are about 
the same size as those of the Florentine Iris, and when in the 
state above specified, contain much starch; the natives call 
them Cattitch. Along with the Anigozanthus, you will find a 
few seeds of the beautiful Boronia, detected by Mrs. Molloy, 
and which I have named B. Molloye.”’* 
April 26th, 1843. 
* I feel auxious respecting the safety of two boxes which 
were despatched to you in January last. They contain about 
five hundred species of plants, not sent to you before, among 
them three or four new genera of Proteacee and two most 
beautiful species of Anigozanthus ; the yellow-flowered one I 
consider to be the very loveliest plant which this country can 
boast. "There are also several letters and journals of mine In 
the box. 
I have lately obtained another species of Dryandra, or per- 
haps Hemiclidia, for it answers to the character of that 
genus in possessing a seed-vessel, densely covered with long 
ferruginous hairs, its substance thin and opening at the top - 
and sides; the seeds are wingless; but it differs by bringing 
sometimes two seeds to maturity, and in other charac- 
ters. : 
The plant has the true habit of Dryandra; it is a low, 
much-branched shrub, and the flowers, which I have only 
seen in a withered state, are produced on the old stems; the 
style appears very long in proportion to the size of the inflo- 
rescence, andis villous, with long hairs at the lower part. 
The discovery of this shrub is due to my youngest son, who 
gathered it in the Moore River district. : 
In my former letters I mentioned to you Mrs. Molloy 3$? — 
most ardent botanist, who had detected many of the 3 
productions of this country, and both cultivated them herself 5 
in her garden in Vase district, and sent seeds to Captain 
* See vol. ii, p. 169 and 171. 
