Under the belief that this truly beautiful species is new, I have given it the name of Boronia Molloyi, after the lady of Capt. Molloy, late of the Rifles and now Government-Resident of the Vasse District. You may have heard Capt. Mangles speak of Mrs. Molloy, who has sent him many seeds and specimens of the productions of this country; she has long been ardently attached to Botany, and cultivates plants with great success. The Maurandia Barclayana[1] grows on her house and blooms abundantly, climbing to the very roof, and in her garden I first saw that lovely Phlox[2] which you named after my deceased brother, and which flowered there for the first time in this colony: Mrs. Molloy had previously shown me a drawing of this species, in the beautiful groups of annuals published by Mrs. Loudon.
During my late journey, which I undertook principally to obtain accurate information of the above-mentioned Dasypogon in a growing state, concerning which I had heard many contradictory accounts, I met with several Proteaceæ that had never before fallen in my way. One of them, belonging to the genus Lambertia, grows thirty feet high, with a trunk three feet in diameter. Judging from some imperfect flowers which still remained on the shrub, the blossoms appear to be greenish-yellow, and not very conspicuous or showy, and the species belongs to the one-flowered division of the genus. This character, however, is by no means invariable, for in two or three individuals of this plant, I have observed the flowers in pairs. The tree itself has the bark as rugged as an English Elm. Along with this Lambertia, and rivalling it in height and thickness, grew a Hakea, that was new to me; its bark too was of a similar character. It appears nearly allied to H. mixta (Lindl.) or, at least, to what I suppose to be an arborescent variety of that species, for the common mixta is here a bushy shrub, only about four or six feet high: but this wants the filiform foliage altogether, and
- ↑ Botanical Register, tab. 1108.
- ↑ Phlox Drummondii, discovered in Texas by the late Mr. Thomas Drummond; Bot. Mag. tab. 3441.
