248 THE BOTANY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
G. Leakeanum ; it grows twelve to fifteen feet high, with opposite 
leaves three inches long, by two broad, and bears clusters of large 
deep scarlet flowers in the axils of the leaves; it is abundant on Con- 
gineerup, near the east end of the mountain, growing in all sorts of 
soil, from the base to the summit. The banks of the Salt River, and 
its tributary streams, produce a fine species of Brachysema, an upright 
growing plant, producing its flowers on the shoots of the preceding 
season ; they are borne on short footstalks, five or six in the axils of 
each leaf; they are large and bright scarlet. The fine foliage of this 
plant, silvery underneath, and the great number of its flowers, in which 
it differs greatly from the other species of the genus, make it one of the 
finest plants of the order to which it belongs. 
“J found growing on Congineerup a remarkable Leguminous shrub, 
bearing instead of leaves, large glaucous phyllodia, somewhat resem- 
bling Acacia gamophylla, but having yellow papilionaceous flowers: I 
could see nothing of the old or young seed vessels. The plant is very 
rare on Congineerup, near the east end of the mountain. To Myrtacce, 
and particularly to the sub-order Chamelaucie, I have made most im- 
portant additions. A beautiful and apparently nondescript genus near 
Actinodium, but differing from it in having the outer flowers of the 
heads forming a ray like many composite plants. I gathered two 
species of the genus in my last journey to the south, both fine plants, 
but the one now found much surpasses the others; it grows on an 
upright shrub, from two to three feet high, with small imbricated, 
heath-like leaves; the heads of the flowers are borne in corymbs from 
a foot to eighteen inches in diameter, each head of flowers, including 
the ray, about two inches wide. There is a curious resemblance be- 
tween these heads of flowers and a fine double daisy (Bellis perennis) ; 
the colour varies from white to various shades of rose colour. Several 
fine species of Chamelaucium have been found, one with flowers as 
large as Verticordia insignis; the flowers are white when they first 
come out, but before they go off they change to a fine purple. There 
seems scarcely any generic difference between Verticordia and Chame- 
laucium. 
**'To the now splendid genus Genetyllis I have added four additional 
species. ‘The tulip-bearing G'enetyllis, discovered and described in my 
last journey, I gathered in flower on Mongerup; J had only seen it 
when the seeds were ripe, and although it was then beautiful, it now 
surpasses my former description. Along with it, on Mongerup, I found 
a species with heath-like leaves, a bright scarlet involucre inclosing 
dark purple flowers. On Congineerup I found two large bracted 
species of this genus; one with thyme-like, ciliated leaves, and the 
bracts which form the involucre ciliated; the other with heath-like 
leaves and bracts, without cilize ; the bracts in both are rose-coloured. 
In my first ascent to Toolbranup, I found a scarlet Fuchsia-like Grene- 
tyllis (noticed in my journal), but saw only a few specimens, which I 
lost on the mountain. It was burned over last year by the natives, 
and where the Genetyllis and other rare plants grew there is nothing 
to be seen but stones and blackened stumps. I have now, on Hume’s 
Peak, gathered a beautiful scarlet Fuchsia-like Genetyllis, which may 
