Captain James Mangles, and to Mr. Toward, gardener to 

 H.R. H. the Duchess of Gloucester. It was also met with 

 by Major Sir T. L. Mitchell, during his important expedition 

 to the Rivers Darling and Murray in the year 1836, and 

 was named by me in the note to his account of the proceed- 

 ings of his party. 



It is a half-hardy annual, flowering abundantly in the 

 open border during the summer, and although not appearing 

 very pretty in a plate, is sufficientl}' striking to deserve 

 cultivation, for the surface of its flowers is glossy like those 

 of the cockscomb. 



Fig. 1. is a magnified view of a single flower ; fig. 2. re- 

 presents the cup, stamens and ovary, whose style is clothed 

 with straggling hairs, one of which is seen magnified at 

 fig. 4. ; and fig. 3. exhibits a section of an ovary, with the 

 ovule and the funiculus, from whose end it hangs suspended. 



At Swan River are two other species, whose beauty would 

 make them most desirable plants to introduce ; as neither 

 of them are described, I beg to name the one after my ex- 

 cellent friend Captain James Mangles, R.N. to whom I am 

 indebted for a fine collection of dried New Holland plants, 

 and the other after His Excellency Sir James Stirling, who 

 has done so much for the introduction of new plants to 

 England during his government of the Swan River colony. 



Tr. Manglesii ,• caulibus simplicibus ascendentibus sulcatis foliisque spathulatis 

 acutis undulatis glabrisj capitulis maximis ovatis, bracteis lineari-lanceolatis 

 acuminatis, sepalis aplce erosis et serrulatis calvls basl pilis densissimis lana- 



tis, cyatho staminum integerrimo brevissimo, stylo glabro. Heads three 



inches across. Flowers pink at the tips, silvery at the base. 



Tr. Stirlingii ; caulibus flexuosis ramosis puberulis, foliis lineari-oblongls acutis- 

 simis sessilibus, capitulis sphaericis subsolitariis. bracteis subrotundis cuspi- 

 datis, sepalis truncatis ad apicem usque villosis intus basi lanatis, cyatho 



staminum brevissimo integerrimo. Heads rather less than an inch and a 



half across, silvery, just tinged with pink. 



