374 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Flowers sub-sessile. 
Spur longer than the lower lip. 
Flowers somewhat remote, sub-racemose U. nivea. 
Flowers congested, spicate on the apex 
of the seape (the flowers of both 
these are nigrescent in drying, but 
do not appear to differ in colour, 
hence I suspect an error in the 
name cerulea . U. ccerulea.* 
Spur shorter or about the bod: of the lip 
ip large, revolute on the margin, 
covering and nearly concealing the 
spur) s : x ; U. racemosa. 
Flowers longish, pedicelled, seed scrobiculate U: bifida. 
Swan River Botany. 
{It is long since we have given any account of Mr. James Drum- 
mond’s excursions in Western Australia. We shall here, and in our 
future numbers, give occasional extracts from his many letters now 
before us, written during the year 1844, and since, from the Swan 
River Colony.—Eb.] 
Hawthornden Farm, Swan River, Feb. 21st, 1844. 
I have just returned, after a three months’ expedition, in which I have 
examined part of the country about the Beaufort and Gordon rivers, 
and the district south and east of King George’s Sound, as far as the 
Prorongarup range of hills and Mount Mary peak. On my return, I 
received your letter by the Ganges ; and I beg to offer my best thanks 
for your remarks upon my collections of dried plants. I am sensible 
that they are not so well preserved as I could wish; but the fact is, 
that I had been a cultivator for many years ere I gave any attention to 
the process of preparing specimens for an Herbarium ; and, had it not 
been for the encouragement you obligingly held out, I should never 
have made the attempt. Now that I have brought myself to live in 
the Bush as comfortably as in a house, it would be a pity to relinquish 
* U.cerulea and filicaulis appear to be varieties only of the same species (the 
former young, with the first flowers iub open, the latter old, with the short qu 
elongated into a fructiferous raceme). My specimens show, I think, the transition 
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