90 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
sent you by the “ Shepherd ;" she sailed for London abouta 
month ago. The journal does not give so full an account as 
you would wish of the Botany of the country through which 
we passed, having been only drawn up for government, in 
return for their supplying me with rations at the different 
military posts on my way, between this place and the Sound, 
You will find, among the specimens, the Dryandra, with fo- 
liage like Banksia grandis and the other, whose leaves resem- 
ble the bipinnata ; also the species described in my letter of 
Oct. 15th, as reminding me of Erica Tetraliz, and which has 
cylindrical cones about an inch in length, and the same! 
diameter. At the bottom of the box are dried samples and 
perfect seeds of the noble Dryandra, which has flowers simi- 
lar to the Cape Honey-bush, as I mentioned to you in a forme 
communication, dated last September.* This species wants 
the woody dissepiment to the seed-yessel, which is common 
to Banksia and Dryandra, but neither agrees with Aphragm ` 
nor Diplophragma, its seed appearing to be crowned with four 
uniform delicate membranaceous wings, which are of the e 
length and breadth of the follicle. 'There is a division d 
Dryandra, coinciding with this in the structure of the | 
and which does not appear to be noticed by Mr. Brown, and 
of which I now possess seven species, or varieties. Four? 
them creep under ground, and those which bear their whole | 
stem above ground, still agree with the creeping ones D? 
many characters, that I cannot but think them sufficiently 
different from Dryandra, to form together a distinct genus 
In the bottom of the box, I send you a portion of the stem 
one of these species. "The number of seed-vessels show how 
many years old the plant is, since the time when it first beg? ` 
to flower. Each individual, after blossoming, throws 0% 
from the base of the receptacle, from one to five shoo 
measuring an inch, or rather more, in length, and partly o 
vered with such scales as clothe the creeping stems of the 
* Published in the former series of this work, the Journal of Botany, e 
July, 1841, p. 80. 
