LATE ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, ESQ. 271 



me. On the afternoon of the 24th, I landed with Captain 

 King on the beach, where our tents had been pitched four 

 years since, and was much surprised at the change of the 

 vegetable kingdom on that shore : we could discover no trace 

 of the garden which I had formerly with much labour made; 

 the breadth of the beach had considerably diminished, by a 

 great accumulation of decayed sea-weed and other vegetable 

 matter; and the stumps of large trees (two feet diameter), cut 

 down in 1818, were wholly concealed from our view by the 

 luxuriant stems that had again grown out of them, ex- 

 hibiting with every shrub around, the most luxuriant growth 

 of vegetation conceivable. On the side of the wooded 

 hill above the beach, I remarked almost every plant to be 

 in a much more backward state than observed in January, 

 1818, the season on the whole being more favourable for 

 flowering specimens than for ripened seeds. BanTcsia 

 grandis and B. coccinea, the pride of the Sound, were 

 extremely fine in flower, as were also several Leptosper- 

 mai ; and among the variety around, I gathered the follow- 

 ing as a commencement: — Calytrix truncata, a shrub with 

 white flowers, wanting the setae that terminate the divisions of 

 the calyx in this genus ; Lysinema ciliatum Comesperma, 

 fiavescens, allied to C. conferta, Lab., Hakea ceratophylla, 

 H. florida, Opercularia vaginata, Johnsonia liipulina, a 

 curious plant of Asphodelece, Gastrolohium lanceolatum, 

 Melaleuca thymoides, Lab., Petrophila rigida, Conostylis 

 acideata, Acacia decipiens. A, nigricans. Nothing could 

 possibly exceed the beauty of Pimelea decussata on rocks 

 nearly washed by the sea, where Sccevola nitida was also 

 frequent. Dasypogon hromeliifoUus had perfected its young 

 fruit: its seeds, however, were in no specimens examined 

 ripe ; as was the case with Anigozanthus, and those specime ns 

 of Patersonia I found on these shores. 



" Dec. 25th. — Upon the lower slopes I gathered fruit of 

 BanTcsia attenuata in excellent condition, as aXsoo^ B. grandis, 

 with Dryandra formosa and D. tenuifolia. In an elevated 

 rushy bog, I detected the following plants in flower: — Cosmelia 



