370 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
diameter, and are shaped exactly like a well-made broom ; - 
the branches are very tough, without leaves, and the flowers 
blue. I shall send you one of these brooms as a specimen 5 
the natives supply all the settlers within ten miles round with — 
them, thus threatening to extirpate the plant, and many have : 
even been sent to Perth. I met with a leguminous plant, new 
to me, on the grassy hills near Mr Lucas's residence, which - 
I think better adapted for cultivation as artificial food in this | 
country than any hitherto introduced ; it is not yet in flower, - 
and from its present appearance it will continue green for seve- - 
ral months. The plant, called by the settlers the Swan River — 
Lupine, is now in full bloom in many places on the banks of © 
the river; it is three or four feet high, the leaves are downy, 
about seven inches long, pinnate, having six pair of pinnul 
with an odd one at the end, the leaflets about an inch long, 
and half an inch broad; the flowers are borne in spikes - 
about a foot long, produced from the axils of the leaves, they — 
are mutable in colour, first making their appearance ofa 
yellowish-white, and then changing to a beautiful purple 
hue; the seed-vessel and seed resemble Astragalus. (Cyelo- 
gyne canescens, Benth.) pu 
The cream-coloured Anigozanthus, found between Waylen's | 
road and Guangan, seems not distinct from the early orange 
or only a form of it, and I have met with another variety. 
the same species on the downs near the sea, about ten miles 
to the north of Freemantle. The three varieties are as fol- 
lows:— Ist. The early orange, which grows on the sand-bills, 
between the Swan River and the Darling range; this pant 
springs up singly, and is about nine inches high, with orange 
flowers, and is the earliest of the genus; it has one or two large 
. leaves near the ground, from the axils of which the flower- 
. ing branches are produced (besides the main stem). nd. 
_ The sea-coast variety, attaining about a foot high, a strong 
_ Plant bearing many flowers; there are four or five large le: 
re often yellow, or yellow variegated with orang 
'eam-coloured variety, which grows two feet h 
