2 near Mr Andrew's of Villa Grant; and a fine lilac-flow r 
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forest-trees, grows plentifully between Freemantle and the 
foot of the Darling range of hills; when in blossom it appears at 
a distance like a fire in the woods. On approaching it, the 
noise from thenumerous Coleopterous, Dipterous and Hymenop- 
terous insects which feed upon the flowers, resembles the sound 
of several bee-hives. A large white butterfly, with red spots on 
the wings, is seen in great numbers hovering over the tree, 
this species, I think, belongs to the P. Brassicz family, the 
larve of it feed in numbers together on the Eucalyptus and 
Melaleuca; there are other species of Papilio also about the 
tree, and the honey-sucking and insect-eating birds are all 
on the alert. The trunk of the Nuytsia is from two to four 
feet in diameter; its leaves are like those of Taxus elongata, ! 
and the seeds resemble Rhubarb; they vegetate with several 
cotyledons like the pine. One of the commonest trees about 
Perth recalls to the mind of the settlers an English Holly, 
its small clusters of flowers, followed usually by à single. 
seed-vessel, have a similarity to Hakea, but the form of the 
seed proves it to be a Banksia, at least it comes nearer Mr : 
Brown's B. ilicifolia than any other described species. Mr 
Brown's ilicifolia, if I mistake not, is a small upright-grow- - 
ing species plentiful about Albany and King Georges 
Sound. The plant found here is from eighteen inches to - 
two feet in diameter, the flowers are yellow when they first 
come out and change to a deep red, the species is almost 
always in lower. Mr Brown describes his plant as bringing 
about five seeds to maturity; ours generally ripens but onê, - 
and I have never seen more than three. Some fine Legumi- 
nous plants grow about Perth; our common climber is | 
lovely blue Kennedya, admired by every body; a beautitu 
Hovea, its narrow leaves terminating in sharp thorns, 
from ten to fifteen feet high, by the stream of water 
enter the peninsula, the shape of its seed-vessel | 
that of Astragalus: I have met with three specie 
iles to the east of the Pine Apple Inn, on the 
f the Swan River, a beautiful yellow flows 
