11 APPENDIX. 



Botanical Register and Botanical Magazine ; some of the 

 Proteacese have also been described in Brown's Supple- 

 ment.* If to these sources of information we add a short 

 notice of the vegetation of the country by Dr. Brown,')' and 

 a similar paper by the late Mr. Charles Frazer,:]: there is 

 little further to notice concerning the published accounts of 

 the Botany of this part of the world. 



The materials from which the following sketch has been 

 drawn up are the foregoing documents, and an herbarium of 

 about 1000 species, formed by the communications of Mr. 

 James Drummond, now resident in the Colony, Captain James 

 Mangles, R.N., R. Mangles, Esq., Mr. Toward, Gardener to 

 Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, and N. B. 

 Ward, Esq. of Wellclose Square, to all whom I beg to express 

 my thanks for the assistance they have afforded me. Some 

 information regarding the climate and soil has also been 

 derived from papers in the Journal of the Geographical 

 Society, and from a memoir upon Western Australia by Dr. 

 Milligan, which was published in the Madras Journal for 

 October 1837. 



The Swan River Colony is stationed on the South-west 

 coast of New Holland, about two degrees nearer the tropic 

 than Sydney, on the opposite coast, the mouth of the river 

 being nearly in 32° S. lat., whence it runs gradually in a 

 north-easterly direction. The Colony itself is situated upon 

 both sides of the river, and extends as far south as the 

 Murray in lat. 32°. 33'. According to Dr. Milligan the en- 

 tire area of the Colony is about 50 miles by 30 ; but there is 

 no evidence to shew whether all the plants hereafter to be 

 noticed were collected within those narrow limits. 



The country is described as being usually of the open 

 forest description, consisting of undulating plains, covered 

 with a great profusion of plants ; three-fourths of the trees 

 belonging to the genus Eucalyptus. It is broken by the 



* Suppletnentum primum Prodi-omi Flor(S N. HoU. Lond. 1830, 8vo. 



f General View of the Botany of the Vicinity of Swan River ^ in Journ. 

 ofR. Geogr. Soc. I. 17. 1832. 



X Remarks on the Botany, ^c. of the Banks of the Sioan River, Isle 

 of Buache, Baie Geographe and Cape Naturaliste ; in Hooker's Botanical 

 Miscellany, I. 221. 1830. 



