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collections, informs me; nor can I trace Mr. Lambert's 

 plant, his Herbarium having been dispersed. 



Since the preceding observations vfere viritten, I have 

 seen in Sir WiUiam 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. Prom the form of the half-ripe 

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

 that this plant, at present referred to Clianthus, 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 

 Eremocharis 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. 



Chab. Gen. — Calyx B-fidus. JPetala longitudine -sub- 

 sequalia. Stamina diadelpha : antlierce uniformes ; loculis 

 apice confluentibus, valvula contraria ab apice ad basin 

 separanti dehiscentes ! Ovarium monospermum. Stylus 

 subulatus. Stigma obtusum. Leyumen ovatum, lenticu- 

 lari-compressum, echinatum. 



v« Herba, v. Suffrutex, glabra, glandulosa; ramulis an- 

 gulatis. Folia cum impari pinnata ; foliolis oppositis, subtus 

 glandulosis. Stipulse parvoe, basi petioli adnatce. Flores 

 spicati, parvi, albicantes- 



Obs. Subgenus forsan Psoralese, cui habitu simile, foliis 

 calycibusque pariter glandulosis ; diversum dehiscentia 

 insolita antherarum ! 



6. QiiADrnTni^Kk psoralioides. 



Log. Suffrutex bipedahs in paludosis. D. Sturt. 



