now under consideration is a native of New Holland, and was 
discovered so long ago as 1699, by Dampier (and published and 
figured by Woodward, in Dampier’s Voyage, above quoted), in 
the dry sandy islands of Dampier’s Archipelago, North-west Aus- 
tralia, latitude 29° 19’ to 20° 30’, longitude 116° to 117° east. 
Allan Cunningham gathered it in the same locality in 1818. 
Specimens from near that group of islands, namely on the 
“north-west coast of Australia,” are in my herbarium, gathered 
by Mr. Bynoe in the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Again, Mr. 
Allan Cunningham met with the same plant in the western 
_ interior of New South Wales, on the eastern shore of Regent's 
Lake on the river Lachlan. The same plant was observed on 
the Gawler Range, not far from the head of Spencer’s Gulf, in 
1839, by Mr. Eyre, and more recently by Captain Sturt, on his 
“Barriere Range, near the Darling, about 500 feet above the 
river.” Mr. Brown has examined specimens from all these 
localities, and is satisfied that they belong to one and the same 
species. 
Mr. Brown, judging from the unripe pods in my herbarium, 
was of opinion that this would, when the perfect pods were 
known to us, prove to be sufficiently distinct from the original 
New Zealand species to form a distinct genus, but the pods and 
the seeds seem to exhibit no difference as far as can be judged 
from the immature state, save in the absence of the woolly sub- 
stance in the former. ‘The seeds are rather numerous, and are 
each on a long podosperm. 
On the first exhibition of this charming plant at the Horti- 
cultural Society, a silver medal was most justly awarded to 
Messrs. Veitch and Son. . 
Drscr. A procumbent or ascending, herbaceous plant, glau- 
cous, and hoary all over with long, whitish, silky hair. Stems 
slightly angular and tinged with red. Leaves alternate, pinnated, 
petiolated, oblong, with about sixteen rather closely placed sub- 
opposite, oblong or elliptical, frequently acute, sessile leaflets ; 
petiole one to three inches long, with a pair of large, herbaceous, 
bifid stipules at the base. Peduncle terminal, sometimes a spat 
long, bearing a racemose wmbel of four to six, very large, droop- 
ing flowers. Pedicels bibracteolate. Calya hairy, with the tube 
the Northern Island in 1826. It is probably a rare plant, and its peculiar 
localities are to the southward of the Bay of Islands, where Allan Cunningham 
subsequently gathered it; it also occurs on the shores of the River Thames, 
at Mereury Bay, where Cook afforded the naturalists who accompanied that voy- 
age the opportunity of landing, in 1769, and near which, namely at Tauranga, in 
the Bay of Plenty, are the Missionaries’ Home Stations, whence the first seeds 
were sent to Europe, and raised by W. Leveson Gower, Esq., of Titsey Place, 
Godstone. Dr. Hooker, in his ‘ Flora Nove Zelandizx,’ gives the locality of Banks 
and Solander, and says, ‘‘ more generally cultivated.” 
