breviores, basi seaiicordata. Carina longitndine vexilli, 71] acuminata, basi gibbosa, ibique aperta marginibus tomentosis. Stamina 10 diadelpha, simplex et novemfidum. Antheræ quinque majores lineares, juxta basin affixæ; quinque reliquse ovatse, linearibns triple breviores, incum- bentes. Ovarium lineare, multi-ovulatum. Stylus extra medium et præsertim latere interiore barbatum. Stigma obtusum. Legumen desideratur.
Obs. a species very nearly related to C. Sturtii, having flowers of nearly equal size, and of the same colour and proportion of parts, found in 1818, by Mr. Cunningham, on the north-west coast of Australia, and since in Captains Wickham and Stokes' Voyage of the Beagle ; may be dis- tinguished by the following character; — Crotalaria (Cunninghamii) tomentcsa, foliis simplicibus ovali-obovatis utrinque sericeo-tomeutosis, petiolis apice curvatis, pedunculis axillaribus unifloris.
5. Clianthus (Dampieri) herbaceus prostratas sericeo-villosissimus, foliolis oppositis (rarissime alternis) oblongis passim lineari-oblongis obovatisve, pedunculis erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis, calycibus 5-fidis sinubus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis) sericeis.
Clianthus Oxleyi A. Cunningham in Hort. Soc. Transac. II series, vol. l, p. 522.
Donia speciosa Don, Gen. Syst. vol. 2, p. 468.
Clianthus Dampieri Cunningham, loc. cit.
Colutea Novae Hollandise, &c., Woodward in Dampier's Voy. vol. 3, p. 111, tab. 4, f. 2.
Loc. In ascending the Barrier Range near the Darling, about 500 feet above the river." D. Sturt.
Obs. In July, 1817, Mr. Allan Cimningham, who accompanied Mr. Oxley in his first expedition into the Western Interior of New South Wales, found his Clianthus Oxleyi on the eastern shore of Regent's Lake, on the River Lachlan. The same plant was observed on the GawlerRange, 72] not far from the head of Spencer's Gulf, by Mr. Eyre in 1839, and more recently by Captain Sturt, on his Barrier Range near the Darling. I have examined specimens from
