supplementanj to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 419 



at the tip of the shoots, each including numerous flowers whose 

 perianth is of a rich purple colour. This rare and handsome 

 species is one of the discoveries of the enterprising botanic 

 voyager, Baxter, whilst on his last visit to King George's Sound, 

 in 1 829. He gave to it the specific name ; and this Mr. Brown 

 has adopted in his Supplement to the Protedcea described in his 

 Prodromus Florce Novce Hollandice. Mr. Brown had described 

 twelve species of Isopogon in his Prodromus : the researches of 

 botanic travellers of late years, and especially Mr. Baxter's dis- 

 coveries on the south-west coast of New Holland, have enabled 

 Mr. Brown to extend this number to that of twenty-three ; see 

 his Supplement to the Protedcei^ which he had described ip his 

 Prodromus. {Bot. Mag., July.) 



LXXVII. Leguminbsce^ § Papiliondcece. 



CLIA'NTHUS Solajider Glory Pea. {Kleios, glory, anthos, a flower; in reference to the noble 

 aspect of the species of this genus.) 17. 4. Sp. 3 of Xihnia are described in Don's Syst., 

 and Hhnia is shown below to be a synonyme of Clianthus. freg. 1775, 



gunfceus Solander crimson-coroUaed * I spl 3 my.jn C New Zealand 1832? Cp Bot. 



Vbnia punfcea G. Don's Gen. Syst. of Gard and Bot., ii. 4G8. 



Between, in consistence, shrubby and herbaceous. Stem about 

 as thick as a goose's quill, branched into spreading branches, 

 which are invested with an evergreen clothing of persistent green 

 leaves, that are severally pinnate, and consist of from eleven to 

 seventeen leaflets that are oblong, blunt, and have a shallow 

 notch at the tip. Every part of the plant is glabrous, except the 

 surface of the leaflets of the younger leaves and the green parts 

 of the inflorescence. It appears that it is its habit to produce 

 an abundance of flowers : these are disposed in I'acemes, which 

 hang down each from the axil of a leaf upon the lateral branches;^: 

 and each consists of several flowers (" many " is the number 

 stated in the description : eight are shown in the figure), and 

 " each flower is rather moi'e than 3 in. from the tip of the standard 

 [the uppermost petal] to the tip of the Keel " [the lowest petal]. 

 The standard is reflexed so much as to almost lie back upon the 

 calyx, is ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, atrosanguineous, with a 

 few white stripes near its base, rose-coloured on its back. The 

 wings (two side petals) shorter than the keel or standard, atro- 

 sanguineous, obtuse. The keel " so much prolonged as to look 

 like the beak of some bird," blood-colour diluted with orange, 

 pale at the base. The flowers are succeeded by brownish-black 

 legumes 2^ in. long, pediceled, acuminate, including "many" 

 seeds. C. puniceus has been spoken of as being resembled by 

 Sutherland/a frutescens, and by some erythrina. The figure 

 published is "from a specimen furnished by Mr. Levison, or 

 Leveson, Gower, from his garden at Titsey, near Godstow. C. 

 puniceus succeeds best planted in a peat bed in the open air i 

 " in such a situation it has now been t*^o years in Mr. Gpwer's 



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