BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 87 
There are, at least, three new species among the Banksias ; 
two of them have smaller leaves than any described by Mr. 
Brown, and the other is allied to B. prostrata and repens, 
though with larger foliage than any known species. By Mr. 
Taylor, who takes this letter, I shall send you a flower and 
leaf of the creeping species, and a seed-vessel of the two 
smaller-leaved sorts; one of these, which is strikingly beau- 
tiful, and grows to a height of four feet, has foliage about the 
size of Erica Tetraliz, (it makes the fifth species of Banksia 
which I have seen, bearing exactly globular fruit); the other 
small-leaved Banksia has glaucous, setaceous, recurved leaves, 
and cones from two to three inches long. 
I also met with a fine Dryandra, in foliage so exactly simi- 
lar to our large Banksia (the grandis of Frazer), that I at 
first passed it over, supposing it to be only seedlings of that 
Plant. Closer examination, however, enabled me to detect 
the flowers, which are borne quite close to the ground. No- 
where, except to the north of William’s River, could I find 
this Dryandra, and there I left my specimens of it. 
Here I met with Mr. Preiss, and we have been botanizing 
together, and have found a very remarkable plant, belonging 
to Asphodeleæ, so nearly allied to Xanthorrhea, that I at first 
took it for one of that genus. The seed-vessels and seeds, 
however, which are situated in the axille of the lower leaves, 
Showed us our mistake. This plant is common in the neigh- 
bourhood of King George's Sound, about the settlement, 
and from the inconspicuous nature of the inflorescence, has 
doubtless, been overlooked as something, not in flower. The 
style, which remains on some of the green seed-vessels, 
(which I send you just as I found them), is full two inches 
ong, and triangular at the base. We know nothing of the 
Wers, as the season for them was entirely past. 
"` Send you two drawings of the remarkable figures which 
*xist in a caves in the York district ; the drawings were kindly 
* The cave to which Mr. Drummond next refers, is mentioned by Go- 
"acr his highly interesting book on Western Australia. The 
mit are certainly very inferior to those which Capt. Grey had 
