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only orchid which has no bulb. A handsome plant also found 
is the Acacia nervosa, having a spike of yellow balls and pricky 
one-nerved leaves. 1 hree of the beautiful red creepers, the 
Kennedyas, were to be found ; they all have compound trefoil 
leaves and red blossoms. K. prostrata is the commonest, having 
solitary flowers, like K. stirlingii, while K. coccinea has bright 
clusters of coral red. The only proteaceous plant in blossom 
was Hakea lissocarpha, one of those low shrubs whose very 
prickly leaves make it quite certain that it will not be left un- 
noticed. 
Edward S. Simpson. 
BOYA. — September 3, 1910. Leader, Dr. Frank Tratman. 
On September 3 the fortnightly excursion was to Boya, just 
beyond Greenmount, on the Smith’s Mill line, a particularly 
favorable place for such a purpose, as it is not much known to 
the general public. There were present as visitors Professor 
T. W. E. David, of Sydney, Dr. Danes, of Prague University, 
and Mr. Grant Watson, an entomologist attached to the Cambridge 
Ethnological Expedition. Other visitors and a good number of 
members made up an enthusiastic party. 
Botany. — The season is as yet somewhat early for the 
botanist, but some interesting specimens were found. Among 
orchids : — ■ Caladenia filamentosa. Individual orchids in their 
growth are quite separate and distinct . This specimen shows 
two individual plants joined together above the bulbs with a 
third flowerless leaf in between. In this respect it is exceptional. 
Diuris setacea, showing two well-marked bulbs in contradistinction 
to its near neighbour D. longt folia, which has none. Prassophyl- 
lum datum. — The tallest plants of this genus found measured 
three feet Droseraceae. - Members must have noticed very often 
a number of orchid leaves springing up which do not develop a 
flower for that year. I did not think that Droseras did the same 
thing, but the moist places at Boya were strewn plentifully with 
dark red eight-leaved Drosera rosettes. I do not believe they 
are scapeless plants, but flowering plants which have already 
flowered and faded down. Drosera neesii and D. pallida, both 
with their bulbs. Other fully developed plants found were 
Hakea undulata, Tribonanthes longipetala and Isopogon roseus. 
Geology. — Mr. E. S. Simpson has supplied the following 
notes : — There are two Government quarries on the sides of the 
Helena Valley within a few yards of Boya Siding. The eastern 
quarry, which is by far the larger .supplied the granite blocks 
with which the two moles at Fremantle Harbour are clothed. 
The granite in this quarry appears to be identical with that at 
