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serted at the summit of the tube, usually clawed, more or less unequal. 

 [Stamens 10, free, either all perfect or some reduced to small staminodia. 

 Ovary stipitate, the stalk adtiate to one side of the calyx-tube, Avith several 

 ovules \ style usually filiform, with a capitate, broad or oblique, terminal 

 stigma. Pod linear or oblong, compressed, 2-valved. Seeds compressed ; 

 albumen usually thin ; radicle short and straight. — Trees or woody climbers. 

 Leaflets either 2 distinct from the base, or (in the majority of species not Aus- 

 tralian) united into an entire or 2-lobed leaf, with 5 to 11 digitate nerves. 

 Eaceraes terminal. 



A large geuus, distributed over the tropical regious of the New and the Old World. It 

 Ins beeu divided into several genera, which I have in other works been disposed to adopt ; 

 but it may be more convenient to follow De Candolle and others in considering them as sub- 

 genera. The following Australian species, all endemic, with one or two nearly allied Asiatic 

 ones, form a small group, with the 2 leaflets quite distinct, and in their flowers and fruit 

 agreeing with Plianera, except that the 10 stamens are all perfect. 



Calyx disk-bearing base very short, free part" canipanulate, deeply 



lobcd. Outer petals 5 to 6 Hues long. Pod 2 in. broad . . , 1, ^. Cunninyhamtt, 

 Calyx disk-bearing base turbinate, free part as long, shortly lobed. 



Petals 6 or 7 lines long. Pod not \\ in. broad 2.. B. Carro?iiu 



Calyi disk-bearing base cylindrical, free pai-t as long, divided to the 



base. Outer petals 1^ in. long. Pod 1 to U io- Ijroad . . - 3. .B. Hooken. 



1. B. Cunninghamii, Benili. A tree of 20 ft. or more, the young 

 branches slender, rarely short and spinescent, the young shoots and leaves 

 ])ubescent, at length glabrous. Leaflets quite distinct, broadly falcate-ovate, 

 veiy obtuse, f to 1^ in. long, and more than half as broad, finely 5- to 7- 

 iierved. Flowers 2 or 3 together on a very short common peduncle, the pe- 

 dicels shorter than the calyx. Calyx about 5 lines long, velvety-toraentose, 

 the disk-bearing base very short and broad, the free part broadly. campanulate, 

 thid, divided below the middle into 5 ovate equal lobes. Petals silky- 

 [omentose, ovate, the 3 outer lower ones exceeding the calyx by above 6 

 lines, the lateral ones by about 2 lines, and the uppermost inner one scarcely 

 fit all. Stamens 10, longer than the petals, the lowest the longest. Uvaiy 

 on a long stipes, with 8 to 10 ovules ; stitrma large, capitate. Pod veiy^ tlat, 

 thinly coriaceous, about 2 in. broad, 6 in. long or shorter, according to tne 

 number of seeds ripened.— i>/^^«^ra Cnnnwghamih Benth. in_ Pb Jungn. 

 1- 264; BauMnia Leichhardtii, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. ni. oO, partly. 



W. Australia. Cai'ceniug Bay and Vausittart Bay, A, Cunningham; N.;^^. J ft, 

 ^fnoe; Oakover viver, Nichol Bay,V. Gregorys Expedition; Amhem s Laud, F. Mueller, 



Tram. Vict. List iii. 49. A tree, with 



leat- 



f^ foliage and inflorescence of "s. CunHingJiamii, or with rather narrower 

 ^cts, but nndistinguishable without the flowers or fruit, both of which are 



nar- 



g base 



^°«er. Calyx slightly tomentose, about \ in. long, the disk-beann 



farrow-turbinate, the "free portion about the same length very shortlj 5- 

 fed. Petals obovate, silky outside, the lower ones ^^'^^f^%^}^ f^^-^^ 

 W 5 lines, the othe/s rather shorter. Stamens and pistil of /i. Cumu^^ 



J«'"«- Pod coriaceous, not quite \\ in. broad, the valves coriaceous, slightly 



«»ivex when ripe. ' ^ ^ 



Q'leensland. Ou the Burdekin, F. Mueller ; in the interior, Mitchell. 

 «■ S. Wales, Towards Cooper's Creek, Howitfs E.rjpedtito)t. 



