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dampier's cliaxth 
own 
Narrative of 
c< 
Allan Cunningham, who accompanied Mr. Oxlev in liis first 
• . - 
found 
western 
Regent 
The same plant was observed on the Gawler Bange, not far 
from the head of Spencer's Gulf, by Mr. Eyre in 1839, and more recently by Capt. Start, on his 
I have examined specimens from all these localities, and am 
amer 
satisfied that they belong to one and the same species. 
"In March (not May) 1818, Mr. Cunnin 
found on one of the islands of Dampier's Archipela 
o 
passages of his MS. Journal : 
with that of Re? 
This appears from the following 
" ' I was not a little surprised to find Kennedya speciosa, (his original name for Clianthus Oxleyi) 
a plant discovered in July, 1817, on sterile bleak open flats, near Regent's Lake, on the Biver 
Lachlan, in lat. 33° 13' S., and long. 146° 40' E. It is not common ; I could see only three plants, 
of which one was in flower. This island is the Isle Malus of the French/ Mr. Cunnin 
not then aware of the figure and description in Dampier above referred to, winch, however, in Ins 
communication to the Horticultural Society in 1 834, he quotes for the plant of the Isle Malus, then 
regarded by him as a distinct species from Clianthus Oxleyi of the River Lachlan. To tins opinion 
he was probably in part led by the article « Donia, or Clianthus/ in Don's System of Gardening and 
Botany, vol. II. p. 468., in which a third species of the genus is introduced, founded on a specimen 
in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, said to have been discovered at Curlew River, by Capt. King. This 
species named Clianthus Dampieri, by Cunningham, he characterises as having leaves of a slightly 
different form, but its 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 sn^W™ IU.^j*u — ^«-*i^i - - . -j 
form 
Lachlan, Darling, and the Gawler Ran^e 
ipeciraen 
have no doubt, are identical with Dam 
in their subumbellate inflorescence, with 
From the form of the half-ripe pods 
known, prove to be suffi 
to form a 
iH! 1TT1 ; Wl " ch ' if SUch should be the case > the generic name Eremocharis may be giveu, ~ 
ons of the interior of Australia, as well as of the 
orname 
erile islands of the north-west coast." 
Iti 
th 
is possible thai this may be intended to cover some further meaning than can be assigned 
e word, as they would be interpreted by ordinary readers. 
We 
b " re'find in 
