170 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
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-Resi- 
dent 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 Barclayanu* 
grows on her house and blooms abundantly, climbing to the 
very roof, and in her garden I first saw that lovely Phlowt 
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 Dasy- 
pogon in a growing state, concerning which I had heard many 
contradictory accounts, I met with several Proteacee 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 ™ 
two or three individuals of this plant, I have observed the 
flowers in pairs. The tree itself has the bark as rugged oe 
as an English Elm. Along with this Lambertia, and rivalling — 
it in height and thickness, grew a Hakea, that was new t0 
me; its bark too was of a similar character. It appears 
nearly allied to H. mista (Lindl.) or, at least, to what I 
suppose to be an arborescent variety of that species, for the. 
common mista is here a bushy shrub, only about four or 5X 
feet high : but this wants the filiform foliage altogether, and 
* Botanical Register, tab. 1108. 
t Phlox Drummondii, discovered in Texas by the late Mr. Thoma 
Drummond ; Bot. Mag, tab, 3441. z 
