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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 Wilham Hooker's Herbarium two specimens of 

 a Chanthus, found by Mr. Bynoe, on the north-west coast 

 of Australia, in the voyage of the Beagle. These specimens, 

 I have no doubt, are identical with Dampier's plant, and 

 they agree both in the form of leaves and in their subum- 

 bellate inflorescence with the plant of the Lachlan, Darling, 

 and the Gawler Range. Trom the form of the half-ripe 

 pods of one of these specimens, I am inclined to believe 

 that this plant, at present referred to Chanthus, will, when 

 its ripe pods are known, prove to be sufficiently different 

 from the original New Zealand species to form a distinct 

 genus, to which, if such should be the case, the generic name 

 Ereraocharis may be given, as it is one of the greatest 

 ornaments of the desert regions of the interior of Australia, 

 as well as of the sterile islands of the North-west coast. 



CLIDANTHERA. 



Char. Gen. — Calyx 5-fidus. Petala longitudine sub- 

 sequalia. Sfamiria diadelpha : antherce uniformes ; loculis 

 apice confluentibus, valvula contraria ab apice ad basin 

 separanti dehiscentes ! Ovarium monospermiuu. Sfi/lus 

 subulatus. Stigma obtusum. Le(jumen ovatum, lenticu- 

 lari-compressum, echinatum . 



74] Herba, v. Suffrutex, glabra^ fjlandulosa ; ramidis an- 

 yulatis. Eolia cum impari jnnnaia ; foUolis oj^positis, subtus 

 glandulosis. Stipulse parvce, basi pietioli adnaice. Floras 

 sjncaii, parvi, albicanfes. 



Obs. Subgenus forsan Psoralese, cui habit u simile, foliis 

 calycibusque pariter glandulosis ; diversum dehiscentia 

 insolita antherarum 1 



6. Clidanthera psoralioides. 



Loc. Suffrutex bipedahs in paludosis. D. Sturt. 



