( 4004 ) 



Tecoma jasminoides. Jasmine-leaved 

 Tecoma. 



Class and Order. 



DlDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Bignoniace^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx campanulatus, quinquedentatus. Corolla hypo- 

 gyna tubo brevi, fauce campanulata, limbo quinquelobo- 

 bilabiato. Stamina corollae tubo inserta, quatuor fertilia 

 didynama, cum quinti rudimento ; antherce biloculares, lo- 

 culis divaricato-patentibus. Ovarium triloculare, ovulis ad 

 dissepimenti margines utrinque plurimis, horizontalibus, 

 anatropis. Stylus simplex ; stigma bilamellatum. Capsula 

 elliptico-oblonga, v. elongato-siliquaeformis, bilocularis, 

 bivalvis, valvis dissepimento marginibus utrinque semini- 

 fero contrariis. Semina plurima, transversa, compressa, 

 utrinque in alam membranaceam expansa. Embryonis 

 exalbuminosi orthotropi radicula centrifuga— Arbores v. 

 Frutices, interdum scandentes, in America tropica et boreali 

 calidiore, rarius in Capite Bona-Spei, et in Nova Hollandia 

 crescentes; foliis oppositis, impari-pinnatis vel interdum 

 digitatis,foiiolis serratis, incisis aut rarius integer rimis ; Jlo- 

 ribus terminalibus, paniculatis, Jlavis vel incarnatis. Endl. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Tecoma jasminoides ; foliis pinnatis foliolis bi-trijugis cum 

 impari ovato-lanceolatis glabris nitidis, panicula termi- 

 nal!, corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata, limbi plam 

 lobis subaequalibus rotundatis undulato-crenatis. 



Tecoma jasminoides. AIL Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 

 582. LindL Bot. Reg t. 2002. Don, Gard. Diet. v. 

 4. p. 225. 



A climbing shrub of humble growth, a native of Moreton 

 Bay, on the North-eastern coast of New Holland, where it 



was 



