Note upon a hardy Plant, called Clianthns puniceus. 523 



Breynii." (Sutherlandia frutescens R. Br. Dec.) of the same scarlet 

 colour, with a large deep purple spot in the vexillum, but much 

 bigger, coming all from the same point after the manner of an 

 umbel. " The rudiment" (adds the writer) " of the pod is very 

 woolly, and terminates in a filament near 2 inches long." 



As there cannot well be any doubt of the identity of the plant 

 Dam pier found in 1699, on one of the islands of the Archipelago, 

 now bearing his name, (of which, a small specimen, without leaves, 

 is still preserved in the Sherardian Herbarium at Oxford), and the 

 above species, observed sparingly on the same arid group by my- 

 self, in the voyage of Captain P. P. King, R. N. in 1818, 1 have 

 dedicated it to that very celebrated navigator, its discoverer. In 

 May, 1818, it was found in flower, and only with fruit in a very 

 young state. 



