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2 mm., front 4°5 mm. long, the free tips of these last narrowly triangular, 
acuminate, about 1 mm. long. Corolla white ; tube 8-9 mm. long, at the 
_mouth about 4 mm. in diameter; central lobes of the hind lip connate 
beyond the middle, 2°5 by 4:5 mm.; front lip 6 by 5 mm. Nutlets 
suborbicular in outline, dark, polished, 1:5 mm. in diameter. | 
Besides several floral points, the very small leaves serve in this case as an 
easy mark of distinction. 
BIGNONIACES. 
TECOMANTHE VOLUBILIS Gibbs, sp. nov. 
Suffrutex scandens, volubilis, glaberrimus; ramuli teretes, cortice griseo- 
striguloso, lenticellis prominulis obtectis. Folia parva, opposita, petiolata, impari- 
pinnata, foliola 4-jugata, opposita, petiolata, elliptica, obtusa vel acuta, basi cuneata, 
apicem 1-3-plo serrata, margine recurvata, coriacea, nitida, anteriora sursum minore 
supra venis lateralibus 2-3 impressis, subtus glanduloso-punctata. Flores majusculi, 
axillares, breviter racemosi. Calya campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobi ineequalibus (posticis 
2 majoribus), acuminatis, ciliatis. Corolla late infundibuliformis, rosea, tubus sursum 
dilatatus, extus apice pilosus, intus supra basin glaber, lobi deltoideo-acuti, quin- 
quefidi, tomentoso-marginati, quarum duo majores. Stamina 4, didyma, inelusa ; 
filamenta filiformia, glabra, basi aliquantum stupposa; anther loculis divergentibus. 
Stylus filiformis, glaber; stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium cylindraceum glabrum, 
pseudo-biloculare, ovula pluriseriata. 
Hab, Arfak Mts., Koebré ridge, twining in shrubberies, 9000’. FI. 
Dec. 5603. 
'A slender twining plant with pink flowers, recalling Lapageria rosea 
Ruiz & Pav. in colour and habit. In the forest hy the ? lake the plant was 
plentiful, and the fallen corollas often conspicuous on the ground ; but on 
Koebré Mt. it was still in flower, both on the old and the young green wood. 
The leaves with petioles are +5 cm. long, petioles 2°7 em. long, sub 4-angled, 
like the rhachis, which is contracted at the insertion of the folioles, the latter 
being 8 mm. long, the lower pair shortly petiolate and often smaller ; the 
surface of the folioles when dried is transversely striate above and longi- 
tudinally so below. Racemes +2 em. long, with peduncle 1 em. long, 
bearing a pair of subulate bracts and two to three pairs of reduced leaves or 
folioles, the upper with single flowers in their axils, on slender pedicels 1 em. 
long, with two opposite bracteoles 4 mm. long, borne about halfway up. 
Calyx +2 cm. long and 8 mm. across at the base of the lobes, the longest 
lobes 1:3 em. and 6 mm. broad at the base ; the lobes are reflexed in flower. 
Largest corolla +§°5 em. long and 4 em. broad at the base of lobes, 
Longest stamens 4 cm. long, shorter pair 3.cm., both inserted 1 cm. from 
the base of the tube, which widens out immediately above the point of in- 
sertion; anthers 5 mm. long. Style +6 em. long, stigmatic lamella oblong, 
