592 NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 



BlGNONIACE^. 



Tecoma Baileyana, sp.nov. 

 (PI. LI. — left division.) 



A tall woody climber, glabrous. Leaves pinnate with 7 to 9 

 leaflets, sometimes exceeding 2 feet, opposite or in whorls of 3 or 

 4, petiole 3 inches long. 



Leaflets oblique, usually 7 but sometimes 9, large, about 5 inches 

 long and over 2 inches broad, ovate acuminate, rounded at the base 

 or shortly tapering into an exceedingly short petiole, pale coloured 

 underneath, reticulations very prominent below but less marked 

 above, margins slightly recurved, articulate on the rhachis. 



Flowers in axillary racemes or interrupted spikes from 3 to 15 

 inches long of a cream colour, but touched inside on the lobes and 

 throat with a delicate shade of pink. Calyx glabrous, 5-toothed, 

 of a purplish-brown colour. Corolla-tube incurved, 6 lines long, 

 not dilated upwards, but perfectly cylindrical, covered inside and 

 out with minute glandular hairs or processes very numerous on 

 the lobes; the lobes almost equal, acuminate-obtuse Stamens 4, 

 in pairs included in the tube. Pistil longer than the stamens, 

 style with 2 short ovate stigmatic lobes. 



Capsule unknown. 



Htth.—Mullnmbimhy Creek, Tweed River, N.S.W. (W.B.) 



Analysis showing the differenceB of this plant from cognate 

 species : — - 



Flowers in a long raceme or spike, 

 corolla incurved, not dilated up- 

 wards, 1 line in diameter. Leaf- 

 lets about 5 inches . Tecoma Baileyana. 



Flowers in a loose panicle, corolla 

 slightly incurved and dilated up- 

 wards, 3 lines in diameter, leaflets 

 variable, not exceeding 3 inches . 2\ anstralis. 



