HONEY FLOWER OF NEW 
SOUTH WALES. 
Such is the wonderful profusion of curious 
and beautiful plants in the fertile regions of 
"New South Wales, that the spot first explored 
was immediately denominated Botany Bay; 
a name which, by the vulgar, is still fre- 
quently, but most absurdly, used as the ap- 
pellation of the whole of that very extensive 
country. 
Of these botanical produdions, and other 
rare obje6ls of natural history, by the friend- 
ship of a gentlemen in an official department, 
who was for many years resident, we possess 
a very valuable colle6lion of original draw- 
ings, executed with admirable accuracy and 
taste. 
From the subje6l which we have at present 
sele£lcd, under the name of the Honey Flower 
of New South Wales, and which may be con- 
sidered as a melliferous shrub, the natives are 
accustomed 
