320 PLANTS OF CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 



breviores, basi seaiicordata. Carina longitndine vexilli, 

 71] acuminata, basi gibbosa, ibique aperta marginibus 

 tomentosis. Stamina 10 diadelpha, simplex et novemfidum. 

 Anthera3 quinque majores lineares, juxta basin affixse ; 

 quinque reliquse ovatse, linearibns triple breviores, incum- 

 bentes. Ovarium lineare, multi-ovulatum. Stylus extra 

 medium et pra^sertim latere interiore barbatum. Stigma 

 obtusum. Legumen desideratur. 



Obs. a species very nearly related to C. Sturtii, having 

 flowers of nearly equal size, and of the same colour and 

 proportion of parts, found in 1818, by Mr. Cunningham, 

 on the north-west coast of Australia, and since in Captains 

 Wickham and Stokes' Voyage of the Beagle ; may be dis- 

 tinguished by the following character; — Crotalaria {Cun- 

 ninghamii) tomentcsa, foliis simplicibus ovali-obovatis 

 utrinque sericeo-tomeutosis, petiolis apice curvatis, pedun- 

 culis axillaribus unifloris. 



5. Clianthus [Dampieri) herbaceus prostratas sericeo- 

 villosissimus, foliolis oppositis (rarissime alternis) oblongis 

 passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedunculis erectis scapi- 

 formihus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinu- 

 bus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis. 



Clianthus Oxleyi A. Cunningham in llort. Soc. Transac. 

 II series, vol. l,p. 522. 



Donia speciosa Bon, Gen. Si/st. vol. 2, p. 468. 



Clianthus Dampieri Cunningham, loc. cit. 



Colutea Novae Hollandise, &c., Woodward in Damjners 

 Voy. vol 3,j^;. Ill, tab. 4,/. 2. 



Loc. '' In ascendmg the Barrier Range near the Darling, 

 about 500 feet above the river." D. Sturt. 



Obs. In July, 1817, Mr. Allan Cimningham, who ac- 

 companied Mr. Oxley in his first expedition into the West- 

 ern Interior of New South Wales, found his Clianthus 

 Oxleyi on the eastern shore of Regent's Lake, on the River 

 Lachlan. The same plant was observed on the GawlerRange, 

 72] not far from the head of Spencer's Gulf, by Mr. Eyre 

 in 1839, and more recently by Captain Sturt, on his Barrier 

 Range near the Darling. I have examined specimens from 



