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principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the
same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both
of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his
Clianthus Oxleyi to be. But as the flowers in this last plant are never
strictly umbellate, and as I have met with specimens in which they are
rather corymbose, I have no hesitation in referring Dampier's specimen,
which many years ago I examined at Oxford, as well as Cunningham's, to
Clianthus Dampieri. This specimen, however, cannot now be found in his
Herbarium, as Mr. Heward, to whom he bequeathed his collections, informs
me: nor can I trace Mr. Lambert's plant, his Herbarium having been
dispersed.

Since the preceding observations were written, I have seen in Sir William
Hooker's Herbarium, two specimens of a Clianthus, found by Mr. Bynoe, on
the North-west coast of Australia, in the voyage of the Beagle. These
specimens, I have no doubt, are identical with Dampier's plant, and they
agree both in the form of leaves and in their subumbellate inflorescence
with the plant of the Lachlan, Darling, and the Gawler Range. From the
form of the half-ripe pods of one of these specimens, I am inclined to
believe that this plant, at present referred to Clianthus will, when its
ripe pods are known, prove to be sufficiently different from the original
New Zealand species to form a distinct genus, to which, if such should be
the case, the generic name Eremocharis may be given, as it is one of the
greatest ornaments of the desert regions of the interior of Australia, as
well as of the sterile islands of the North west coast.

CLIDANTHERA.

CHAR. GEN.--Calyx 5-fidus. Petala longitudine subaequalia. Stamina
diadelpha: antheroe uniformes; loculis apice confluentibus, valvula
contraria ab apice ad basin separanti dehiscentes! Ovarium monospermum.
Stylus subulatus. Stigma obtusum. Legumen ovatum, lenticulari-compressum,
echinatum.

Herba, v. Suffrutex, glabra, glandulosa; ramulis angulatis. Folia cum
impari pinnata; foliolis oppositis, subtus glandulosis. Stipulae parvoe,
basi petioli adnatoe. Flores spicati, parvi, albicantes.

OBS. Subgenus forsan Psoraleae, cui habitu simile, foliis calycibusque
pariter glandulosis; diversum dehiscentia insolita antherarum!

6. CLIDANTHERA psoralioides.

LOC. Suffrutex bipedalis in paludosis. D. Sturt.

DESC. Herba, vel suffrutex, erecta, bipedalis, glabriuscula. Ramuli