[Plate 10.] 
DAMPIER'S CLIANTIL 
(CLIANTIIUS DAMPIERL) 
A Greenhouse perennial trailer, from New Holland, belonging to the Order of Leguminous Plants. 
gtpcrifit Character. 
DAMPIER'S CUATSTU.— Herbaceous, shaggy, decumbent. [ CLIANTHUS DAMPIFXI.—llerbaceus, villosus, decum- 
eaiiets opposite, very seldom alternate, obovate-oblong. bens ; foliis oppositis rarissime alternis obovato oblongis, 
tipules cut or toothed. Peduncles bearing a kind of stipulis laciniatis v. dentatis, pedunculis apice subum- 
umbel at the point, shorter than the leaves. Calyx bellatis foliis brevioribus, calycibus 5-fidis laciniis acumi- 
" ' w ' tu acuminate segments, and acute re-entering natis sinubus acutis, ovariis villosis. 
angles. Ovary shaggy. 
Brown 
Chanthus Dampieri, Cunningham in Hort. Soc, Trans. II. series i. 522. R. ^r„«™, «. »»». . «»rr»~w K *~™, , -» ~ 
Uianthus Oxleyi, Cunningham; alias Donia speciosa, Don (according to Brown); alias Kennedya speciosa, 
of Cunningham. 
jms beautiful plant has been raised from New Holland seeds, by Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, under the 
name of Kennedya speciosa; and received the large silver medal of the Horticultural Society 
when exhibited in Regent Street, in April last j an honour never conferred upon any new plants, except 
such as are of surpassing value as objects of culti ration . 
It formed a stout decumbent herbaceous perennial, of a pallid aspect, covered witli long hairs. 
-The pinnated leaves were in about five pairs, with an odd one ; the leaflets being oblong, or slightly 
obovate, opposite in most cases, and furnished with a pair of coarsely toothed or slashed stipules, 
rom the axils of these leaves, and shorter than they, arise angular peduncles, having on the end 
tour or five quasi-umbellate flowers of the most brilliant colour. Their calyx is tubular, shaggy, with five 
acuminate lobes, and acute re-enterimr ancles. The standard is ovate, oblong, acuminate, bright 
scarlet, with a deep purple stain at the base, which is convex and sliining; the keel is acuminate, 
scarlet, and very like that of the Crimson Clianth {Cfomtk** pmkeut) t as arc the wings, which ar 
also scarlet. The ovary and stamens appear not to be different from the organs belonging to the las<- 
mentioned 
species. 
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