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till these localities, and am satisfied that they belong to one 

 and the same species. 



In March (not May), 1818, Mr. Cunningham, who 

 accompanied Captain King in his voyages of survey of the 

 coasts of New Holland, found on one of the islands of 

 Dampier's Archipelago, a plant which he then regarded as 

 identical with that of Regent's Lake. This appears from 

 the following passage of his MS. Journal : 



" 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 River 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 Mains of the French.^'' Mr. Cunningham was not then 

 aware of the figure and description in Dampier above 

 referred to, which, however, in his communication to the 

 Horticultural Society in 1 834, he quotes for the plant of 

 the Isle Mains, then regarded by him as a distinct species 

 from his Clianthus Oxleyi of the River Lachlan. To this 

 opinion he was probably in part led by the article Donia or 

 Clianthus, in Don's System of Gardening and Botany, vol. 

 2, 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 Captain 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 Dam- 

 pier's figure and description, both of which prove the 

 flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his Clian- 

 thus Oxleyi to be. But as the flowers in this last plant [73 

 are never strictly umbellate, and as I have met with speci- 

 mens in which they are rather corymbose, I have no hesita- 

 tion 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 



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