erectis scapiformibus, floribus subumbellatis,
calycibus 5-fidis sinubus acutis, ovariis (leguminibusque immaturis)
sericeis.

Clianthus Oxleyi A. Cunningham in Hort. Soc. Transac. II. series, vol. 1.
p. 522.

Donia speciosa Don, Gen. Syst. vol. 2. p. 468.

Clianthus Dampieri Cunningham, loc. cit.

Colutea Novae Hollandiae, &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 Cunningham, 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 Gawler Range, 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 all 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
degrees 13 minutes S. and long. 146 degrees 40 minutes E. It is not
common, I could see only three plants, of which one was in flower. This
island is the Isle Malus 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 1834, he
quotes for the plant of the Isle Malus, 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 i