180 THE BOTANY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
hills of Moresby's range. I found a fine red-flowered species, with 
leaves resembling H. loranthifolia in shape, but they are larger and 
the veins different; it grows abundantly on the east side of Mount 
Lesueur, near the top. The flat summit of Mount Lesueur produces 
sparingly another remarkable new Hakea ; the leaves are glabrous, with 
very entire edges, broadly spathulate; the seed-vessels are about two 
inches long, by one and a half inch in breadth, and only about one and 
a half inch in thickness ; the flowers I have not seen. The ironstone hills 
to the west of Dundaragan, and as far to the north as Gardener's range 
extends, produce a fine red-flowered Lambertia, nearly answering to Mr. 
Brown's description of LZ. formosa, but without the recurved margins to 
the leaves, described by Mr. Brown; this species bears its flowers in 
clusters of seven; when not in flower it is so like L. multiflora, Y cannot | 
tell one from the other by their leaves. The sand-plains to the west of 
Dundaragan, and those to the east and west of the Hill river, produce a 
curious Banksia ; it grows in broad patches with stems creeping under 
ground, and leaves from a foot to a foot and a half in length, and about 
three-quarters of an inch in breadth, pinnatifid; the lobes are beauti- 
fully nerved; the stems grow about two feet high and terminate in 
flowers ; the flowers are the size and form of B. dryandroides, but the 
follicles are larger than they are in any described species; most of the 
branches die after perfecting their seeds, and their place is supplied by 
fresh shoots from the stems under ground ; only some of the stronger 
branches throw out shoots, which again terminate in flowers, when 
they also perish and others take their places; this species is one of 
importance to the natives, who congregate in numbers to feed upon 
the honey of its flowers, which they call * mangite,"—a name they 
give to the flowers of B. grandis and various other species. - 
In travelling to the north, the next new Banksia which makes its 
appearance near the road is a remarkable species with globe-shaped 
flowers of a metallic-green colour; the leaves are pinnate, and resemble 
. in length and breadth those of B. Prionotes ; the remains of the flowers 
fall off, leaving the follicles exposed; they are verrucose, the warts 
formed of a white wax-like substance. This species was first shown to 
me by Mr. Henry Gregory, but I afterwards met with it in many places 
 inthe Valley of the Lakes; it grows to be a small tree with a trunk a 
foot or eighteen inches in diameter. Another new Banksia grows to 
the north of the Tea-tree Swamp, which is about seventeen miles to the 
