350 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
suppose to be the stigma, it afterwards expands so as to re- 
semble one of the divisions of the perianth. -The low sand- - 
hills, a little to the south of the Guildford lakes, produce a - 
charming plant, resembling an Anigozanthus, but having a. 
regular corolla; the colour of the flower is a deep orange, - 
inclining to red. As we approach the base of the hills, the 
species I call the celestial blue Leschenaultia, a most delight- 
ful plant, makes its appearance; while the crimson Hakea, 
another elegant native production, in some places gives à - 
ruddy colour to the very hills when it is in blossom. In 
an open spot, within about a mile of the foot of Wallup, 
a beautiful Dryandra, with large glaucous and curiously- 
spiral leaves, grows, its flowers and seed-vessels are produced | 
close to the ground, the latter partly buried under it, as they 
are in D. bipinnata of Frazer. On the same spot as affords | 
the spiral-leaved Dryandra, grows a glaucous-leaved round- 
headed Banksia; this species ċreeps at the root for several 
yards, its flowers are yellow, some of them inclining to brown. 
I send you specimens of these round-headed sorts, I do not- 
know if they are both described by Mr Brown. Nearest " 
hills, we meet with a plant which is very striking from the 
white plumose nature of its footstalks, for the flowers are ofa 
black colour, and so’small as to be scarcely perceptible; the j 
seeds resemble Conospermum, but it seems to form a natural 
genus sufficiently characterized by its white feathery foot- 
stalks and small black inflorescence. 1 have gathered aye 
six species, distinguished by the form of their leaves. A 
beautiful star-flowered hexandrous, sometimes octandro! 
plant, is very common about the foot of the hills, the seed 1 
. cone-shaped, crowned with the star-like corolla as in Callitri. 
_ OF that pretty genus, nine or ten species occur between the ; 
. Swan River and the top of the hills, (first range.) fs 
 Stylidium I have gathered thirty different kinds in 
me extent, and of terrestrial Orchidee thirty species 
n, I think, remarks that there are few yellow 
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