Tab. 7187. 

 FAR AD A YA splendi da. 



Native of Queensland. 



Nat. Ord. Verbenace^. — Tribe Vitice/E. 

 Genus Faradaya, F. Muell.; (Benth. <fc Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. ii. p. 1154.) 



Faradaya sjylendida ; frutex glaberrimus alte scaudens, foliis amplis ojjpositis 

 longe petiolatis ovatis acumiDatis basi 3-nerviis rotundatis v. cordatis, 

 loete viridibus lucidis penninerviis, ima basi inter nervos glanduliferis, 

 cymis terminalibus laxe multiiloris, pedunculis bracteolatis, bracteolis 

 minutis oppositis, calyce oblongo spathaceo valvatim 2dabiato, corollas 

 albas tubo calyce duplo longiore angaste infundibulari, lobis 4 oblongis 

 obtnsis patulis, staminibns 4 filamentis corollas limbo longioribusj*antheris 

 parvis oblongis, ovario brevi 4-lobo pubescente, stylo gracillimo apice 

 bifido. 



F. splendida, F. Muell. Fragm.vol. v. p. 212 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. v. p. 69. 



A very handsome tropical climber, dedicated by Baron 

 von Mueller to the renowned physicist, Michael Faraday, in 

 the following terms : " Genus exiimium ornavi nomine 

 illustrissimi Michaelis Faraday. D.C.L., LL.D., Chemiiu 

 in regio institute Britannias Professoris Fulleriani, philo- 

 sophi per orbem celebrati." 



When discovered it was supposed to be monotvpic, but 

 two additional species have been since made known, one 

 from the Fiji Islands, F. vitiensis (Seem. Fl. Viti, t. 44) ; 

 the other from New Guinea, is described by Baron Mueller 

 as F. temifolia. The genus is closely allied to Vitex, dif- 

 fering chiefly in the spathaceous two-lobed calyx and lobed 

 ovary. F. splendida was first collected at Rockingham 

 Bay, by Mr. Dallachy, and has since been found (in 1873) 

 much further north, in the Cape York Peninsula, by Mr. 

 "W. Hann, about thirty miles from the coast, when collect- 

 ing for the Queensland Government. Mr. Hann describes 

 the fruit as of the size, shape, and colour of a hen's e°-o- } 

 and containing a very acrid kernel. 



F. splendida was sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 from those of Brisbane in 1879 ; it now forms a climber 

 in the Palm-House, the branches of which extend for 

 August 1st, 1891, 



