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 its
principal distinction is in its having racemes instead of umbels; at the
same time he confidently refers to Dampier's figure and description, both
of which prove the flowers to be umbellate, as he describes those of his
Clianthus Oxleyi to be. But as the flowers in this last plant are never
strictly umbellate, and as I have met with specimens in which they are
rather corymbose, I have no hesitation in referring Dampier's specimen,
which many years ago I examined at Oxford, as well as Cunningham's, to
Clianthus Dampieri.
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