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Since the preceding observations ritten, I have seen in Sir William Hooker's Herbarium, two specimens of a Clianthus, 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 Daree both in the form of leaves and in their subu, and the Gawler Range From 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 froenus, to which, if such should be the case, the generic nareatest ornaions of the interior of Australia, as well as of the sterile islands of the North west coast

CLIDANTHERA

CHAR GEN--Calyx 5-fidus Petala longitudine subaequalia Stamina diadelpha: antheroe uniformes; loculis apice confluentibus, valvula contraria ab apice ad basin separanti dehiscentes! Ovariuumen ovatum, lenticulari-colandulosa; raulatis Folia culandulosis Stipulae parvoe, basi petioli adnatoe Flores spicati, parvi, albicantes

OBS Subgenus forsan Psoraleae, cui habitu silandulosis; diversum dehiscentia insolita antherarum!

6 CLIDANTHERA psoralioides

LOC Suffrutex bipedalis in paludosis D Sturt

DESC Herba, vel suffrutex, erecta, bipedalis, glabriuscula Raa; foliola opposita, lanceolata, subtus glandulis crebris parvis inibus scabris Spicae densae, landulis dense conspersus Corolla: Vexillua subconduplicata nec explanata, basi siue abbreviato Aloe vexillo paulo breviores, carinais, auriculo baseos brevi Carinoe petala alis conformes

Stamina diadelpha, simplex et novemfidum; antherae subrotundae v

reniformes, valvula ventrali anthera diumen basi calyce subemarcido cinctuumento duplici

Embryo viridis; cotyledones obovatae, accumbentes

OBS This plant, which in some respects resembles certain species of Glycyrrhiza, appears to be not unfrequent in the southern interior It was found in one of the early expeditions of Sir Thomas Mitchell, and Mrs (Capt) Grey, observed it on the flats of the Murray

7 SWAINSONA (grandiflora) suffruticosa pubescens, foliis 8-10-jugis inexpansis incano-tolabratis: rachi subincana, racemo multifloro folium superante, bracteolis lanceato-linearibus acutis aequantibus tubuitudine fere tubi, vexillo bicalloso

LOC ”Co” D

Sturt

OBS This plant is, perhaps, not specifically distinct froist 1846, tab 66, of which the figure is a good representation of S grandiflora in every respect, except in the form and proportions of the teeth of the calyx and lateral bracteae In these points it exactly agrees with complete specimens, for which I am indebted to Mrs Grey, from the banks of the Murray, and Mr Eyre's station (Moorundi), about 98 miles from Adelaide, where it was first found in Nove characters, if constant, will sufficiently distinguish it frorandiflora

SWAINSONA (Greyana) suffruticosa pubescens, foliis 5-9-jugis inexpansis incano-tolabratis: rachi subincana, raceioribus, bracteis lateralibus lanceato-linearibus brevioribus tubo calycis albo-lanati quinque-dentati: dentibus obtusiusculis tubo dimidio brevioribus, vexillo bicalloso

In the second edition of Hortus Kewensis, (vol 4 p 326), I excluded froeneric character of Swainsona the calli of the vexillu observed two Australian species where they anting, but which in every other respect appeared to enus; for the same reason I continue to introduce the calli, where they exist, into the specific characters, as was done in Hortus Kewensis, 1 c In the generic character of Swainsona, given in De Candolle's Prodromus, (vol 2 p

271), the calli of vexilluarded as an oversight, which perhaps has been corrected by the author himself, and which, so far as I know, has never been adopted in any eneric character of Swainsona is given

8 SWAINSONA? (laxa) glabra, caule rao-ovalibus obtusis, racelabro quinquedentato brevioribus, bracteolis subulatis, vexillo ecalloso

LOC Statio nulla indicata, in Herb D Sturt

OBS There is so with the other species of the genus; and as the fruit is unknown, and the flowers yellow, I refer it with a doubt to Swainsona

PENTADYNAMIS

CHAR GEN--Calyx 5-fidus subaequalis Vexilluueitudine alarum Stamina diadelpha; antheris 5 majoribus linearibus, reliquis ovatis Ovarium polysperumen compressum

Herba (Suffrutex sec D Sturt), bipedalis sericeo-incana; caule angulato erecto Folia ternata; foliolis sessilibus, linearibus, obtusis Flores racemosi, flavi

9 PENTADYNAMIS incana