Tas. 5051, 
CLIANTHUS Damptert. 
Dampier’s Clianthus. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminos#.—D1apELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx late campanulatus, subzequalis, 5-dentatus. Vewillum acu- 
minatum, reflexum, alis parallelis longius; carina scapiformis, vexillo alisque 
multo longior, omnino monopetala. Stamina manifeste perigyna, diadelpha, omnia 
fertilia. Stylus staminibus duplo longior, versus apicem hine leviter barba- 
tus, stigmate simplicissimo. Legumen pedicelfatum, coriaceum, acuminatum, 
ventricosum, polyspermum, intus lanulosum, sutura dorsali recta, ventrali con- 
vexa.  Semina reniformia, funiculis longiusculis affixa.—Suffrutices herbeeve ; 
foliis impari-pinnatis, stipulatis ; floribus speciosissimis, racemosis. Lindl. 
CuiantHus Dampieri; herbaceus prostratus sericeo-villosissimus, foliolis oppo- 
sitis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedun- 
culis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus 
acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis. Br. 
Cutantnus Dampieri. 42. Cunn. in’Hort. Soc. Trans. ser. 2.0. 1. p. 521. Br. 
in App. to Sturt’s Exped. to Central Australia, p. 71. 
Cutantuus Oxleyi. 4. Cunn. in Hort. Soc. Trans. 1.c. p. 522. 
Donta speciosa. Don, Gard. Dict. v. 2. p. 468. 
Conurea Nove-Hollandie. “ Woodw..in Dantpier’s Voy. v. 3. p. 111. t. 4. 
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From the Greenhouse of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter, 
and King’s Road, Chelsea, where its splendid blossoms were pro- 
duced in the month of March of the present year 1858. In 
point of size the flowers are quite equal to those of the now well- 
known Clianthus puniceus, but in richness of colour far superior, 
for the uniform crimson of the petals is relieved by the velvety 
purple-black disc of the standard of the petals. Clianthus Mere 
is considered to be a native of New Zealand, though a decidedly 
wild locality has perhaps never yet been recorded.* This species 
* Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Solander, who were the first to notice this 
plant, in 17 69, are said to have found it “on some part of the porn 
the Northern Island of New Zealand, or in Cook’s Strait. Mr. Sat SOT 
ham observes, that this plant does not occur in a collection form mt oot 
brother in New Zealand, and was not. seen by himself during his first visit to 
MAY Ist, 1858. 
