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rubra, a very interesting plant of Epacridece, Pimelea 

 angustifolia, yf'wh Pleurandra purjniracea. Upon the ex- 

 posed, gravelly ridges, I gathered specimens of Leptorneria 

 aphylla and L. squamulosa, Leucopogon gracilis, L. fama- 

 riscinus and L, propinquus, Daviesia physodes, Tetratheca 

 glandulosa. Lab., JBoronia cuneata, a slender plant allied to 

 -B. pilonema, Lab., Synaphea polymorpha, a curious genus 

 of Proteacece, and an umbelliferous shrubby plant, very 

 frequent beneath the shade of trees, perhaps of the proposed 

 genus Leucolcena of Mr Brown {XantJiosia, Rudge). Some 

 delicate Stylidece were discovered among gramineous plants, 

 where also I detected Conostylis setigera in flower. Pater- 

 sonia lanata sparingly bore its flowers; but their fiigacity 

 would not allow me the opportunity of conveying expanded 

 flowers on board for examination. Some species of Ilcemo- 

 dorum were shooiinfj forth their lurid brown flowerinsr stems; 

 but none were remarked bearing flowers fully developed. 

 The summit of the ridge was wholly uninteresting, being 

 chiefly stunted Eucalypti, Banlcsia grandis advancing to 

 flower, and the arborescent Xantliorrlicea of the shores. 

 Agreeing in habit, and producing a stem similar to this last- 

 mentioned species, exists a plant* on these hills, whose fruc- 

 tification has never been detected in a perfect condition for 

 examination. Of the many specimens I passed this morning, 

 all bore the very decayed last year's scapes, or bracteated 

 spikes, with no appearance of a disposition to flower again ; 

 and indeed even in a worse condition than remarked in Janu- 

 ary, 1818, when it was my opinion that the plant has expanded 

 flowers in April or May, and ripe fruit the following Septem- 

 ber. Any vessel, therefore, touching on these shores in the 

 winter season, might assuredly find this most remarkable and 

 unknown plant in an interesting and very important state of 

 flower or fruit. Having traced the narrow ridge of the high- 



* Kingia nustralis, R. Br, For description and figure, vide King-'s 

 Survey of the Coast of Australia, Vol. II. App. B. Botany, p. 534 ; also 

 Flinders' Voyage to Terra Australis, Vol. II. App„ p. 376. 



