GENERAL VIEW OF THE BOTANY 



OF THE 



VICINITY OF SWA^ RIVER. 



By R. brown. Esq., F.R.S. 



Read Xovember 22iid, 1830. 



The vegetation of the banks of Swan River, and of in 

 the adjoining country to the southward, is at present known 

 chiefly from the report of Mr. Charles Fraser, the botanical 

 collector, who accompanied Captain Stirhng in his exauii- 

 nation of that district in 1827, and from collections of 

 specimens which were then formed. 



I have inspected, and in part examined, two of these 

 collections ; one of which 1 received from Mr. Eraser him- 

 self, through my friend Alexander jMacleay, Esq., the Secre- 

 tary of the Colony of New South Wales ; for the second I 

 am indebted to Captain Mangles. 



The number of species in both collections does not exceed 

 140 ; and some dicotyledonous herbaceous tribes, as well 

 as grasses, Cyperaceae, and Orchidese, are entirely wanting. 



Erom materials so limited in extent, but few general 

 observations can be hazarded on the vegetation of this 

 portion of the south-west coast of New HoHand. 



The principal families of plants contained in the collec- 

 tions are Froteacea ; Myrtaceoi ; Lef/u/ninosce, such es- 

 pecially as belong to Decandrous Tapilionaceo', and to the 



