“ Calycothurix produces several new species, with both purple and yellow flowers, but the characters which distinguish the species of this beautiful genus are so minute, I cannot describe them in a communication of this kind, the only species I shall particularly notice, is one which grows in form of a pyramid ; the plant grows about two feet high and about a foot wide near the ground, and tapers up to a point ; the leaves are small and heath like, the branches crowded as thick as they can grow together ”

“ A new verticordiæ, growing five or six feet high, with heart shaped leaves and drooping corymbs of yellow flowers, grows abundantly on the sand plain to the northward of the Hutt river ; another beautiful yellow species growing to twice the height of V. grandiflora, with larger flowers and longer leaves, and without the hairs which grow on the stem of one variety of that plant, and differing from both varieties, in growing to a much larger size, is found on sand plains near the Smith river. ”

“ A species of stylobasium, probably the original species of Desfontaines grows on all the limestone hills to the north of the valley of the lakes. The natural order myrtaceæ, sub-order chamelanciæ, produces many fine species over the whole of the country examined to the north and west. A pretty species of genetyllus, growing about a foot high, with short, fleshy, decussate leaves, grows plentifully on the sand plains to the east and west of the Hill river : the barren shoots are numerous, growing close together and quite upright, about a foot high ”