LATE ALLAN CUNNINGHAM, ESQ. 197 
with Captain King, was sent from Melville Island on the 
north coast, where, I was informed, it was found in low si- 
tuations in the vicinity of the settlement established there in 
1824. As there were several plants of it in the garden, where 
it periodically puts forth its small white flowers. Mr. Macleay 
presented me with four bulbs for Kew, so that the royal 
gardens will soon boast of possessing a fourth species of this 
genus, so nearly related to Pancratium. The one I discovered 
some years ago on the Brisbane River at Moreton Bay, which 
also throws up, for the most part, a single elliptically oblong 
leaf and white flowers from its root, differing from it in the 
shape of the sterile teeth of the corona.* 
* Our vessel, which was now ready for sea, had hauled out 
into the stream, preparatory to her quitting the port alto- 
gether, which the Captain hoped to do at daylight on the 
17th. I therefore waited upon the Governor and Mr. 
Macleay for the last time, and taking leave of all my friends, 
. joined the other passengers on board in the evening. The 
~ ship was now dropped down to the Heads, but as the wind 
- blew fresh from the south-east, it was deemed advisable 
again to bring to off Watson’s Bay. During the period 
we lay at anchor, just within the port, we were repeatedly on 
shore, and in one of my walks over the small but beautiful 
. Sstate near South Head, called Vaucluse, I was exceedingly 
- gratified to find a plant of Orchidee, many years ago disco- 
` vered and described by Mr. Brown, which, however, I 
never but once during fourteen years' residence had the good 
` fortune to meet with : it was that excellent botanist's Neottia 
_ australis, which like others of the genus, had the flowers of 
_ the spike spirally disposed. Among the grasses of a lawn, 
- .. * The Moreton Bay plant here alluded to, on flowering and perfecting 
| ite seed vessel, was ascertained to bea species of Eurycles, and is figured 
. Under the name of E. Cunninghamii, in the Bot. Reg. t. 1506, and Bot, 
- Mag. t. 3399, where also is described another Australian species disco- 
_ vered by Mr, Cunningham, in 1820. Calostemma luteum, Bot. Mag. 
_ 2101, Bot. Reg. t. 421, was discovered by Mr. Cunningham in 1817, while ` 
_ With Oxley's expedition on the Lachlan River, as was also Mr. Brown's 
C. purpureum, Bot. Mag. t. 2100, Bot. Reg. t. 422. 
