PLANTS OF THE SWAN RIVER COLONY. 19 



PLANTS OF THE SWAN RIVER COLONY, NOTICED IN DR. 

 LINDLEYS APPENDIX TO BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



RlJTACEA. 



Boronia scabra, with very small red flowers 



spathulata, pretty pink flowers 



teretifolia 



viminea, flowers axillary, red 



Eriostemum nodiflorum, flowers in compact heads of a fine blue 

 Diplopeltis Dampierii, pink flowers 

 Chorilsna quercifolia, greenish white flowers 



ramosus, shrub, flowers blue 



■ tenuis, annual. 



Lasiopetaluve. 



Plants of this tribe abound in the colony, there being four genera and fourteen 



species. 



Thomasia canescens, apetalous (without petals) 



■ glutinosa,* flowers bright pink 



grundiflora,* flowers large, one inch across 



paniculata* 



pauciflora* 



stipulacea* 



* These are beautiful flowering plants, very suitable for a conservatory. 



Corethrostylis bracteata, a downy shrub, with cordate leaves, producing numerous 

 forked racemes of crimson flowers, having long hairy styles like a bottle 

 brush, and is one of the most beautiful plants of the colony. 



Sarotes ledifolia, a shrub having large flowers of a light blue colour, and iong 

 hairy styles, looking like a bottle brush. 



Leucothamnus montanus ; grows to a large bush on the mountains ; is rare ; 

 the flowers are bell-shaped, white. 



There are five or six fine species of Hibiscus. ^-That figured in our number for 

 last November is one of the handsomest. We recently saw another in bloom 

 of a deep crimson with a dark centre, which was handsome, a figure of 

 which we shall give in an early number. 



Droserace.e. 

 The springy nature of the soil in the colony is most suitable to this tribe of plants. 

 Drosera erythrorhiza 



filicaulis 



gigautea ; the flowers are white 

 heterophylla 



— macrautha, having rose-coloured flowers 



— macruphylla 



- pallida, flowers white 

 stolonifera, flowers white 



Byblis gigautea, grows half a yard high, having large purple flowers. 



PlTTOSl'OUACE^. 



Sollya heterophylla, flowers blue 



■ linearis, very bright blue flowers. This has recently been introduced by 



Captain Mangles, R.N. 

 Campyfanthera elegaos, a twining shrub ; flowers produced in clusters on cymes, 



lilac and white 



Frazerii, flowers violet coloured 



— speciosa, flowers white 



Marianthus candidus, flowers white 



pictus, flowers white, with purple stripes- 



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