3i8 Lxxv. APOCYNE.E. [Pavsoma, 



Anthers wholly exserted from the corolla-tube. 

 'Cymes terminal or on short axillary branches. Leaves uarrow 



or broad, not cordate, glabrous or tomentose 1. P. lanceohia. 



Cymes on long axillary peduncles. Leaves broad, usually cor- 

 date. Plant usually "rusty pubescent 2, P. vehtlina. 



Anthers with the tips only protruding. Cymes terminal or on 



short axillary branches. Plant glabrous or nearly so , ... 3. P. LeichhardUi- 

 Corolla-tube nearly globular. Anthers with a prominent longitudinal 



appendage or wing on the back . • 4. P. veiitricosa, 



1. P. lanceolata, E. Br. Prod. 466. A tall woody climber, glabrous 

 or the young brauclies under side of tlie leaves and inflorescence shortly 

 pubescent or rarely tomentose-pubebcent all over, often but not always 

 glaucous and not rust-coloured. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptical-oblong or 

 lanceolate, more rarely oval or almost orbicular, obtuse mucronate or shortly 

 acuminate, not cordate, the margins usually recurved, the veins scarcely con- 

 spicuous on the u|)per side, pale or ligbt brown and penniveined underneath, 

 mostly 2 to 3 in. long. Cymes usually compact, terminal or on short axillary 

 branches. Calyx-segments unequal, 'from under 1 line to above U Imes 

 long. Corolla-tube shorter than the calyx, sliglitly constricted at tlie attach- 

 ment of tlie stamens ; lobes about 2 lines long. Filaments spirally twisted 

 Tinder the antbers; antbers w^holly exserted, linear, without dorsal appen- 

 dages. Pruit 3 to 5 in. long, dividing into ratber thin follicles. Seeds 

 attenuate into a sbort beak at tbe bilum, with a silky tuft of i to | m.^ 

 A. DC. Prod. viii. 402 ; EcJMes lanceolata, Spreug. Syst. i. 634 ; Parsonm 

 glauce&cens^ P. MuelL PraQ-m. vi. 126. 



Qneensland. E. iio^%U R. Brown ; Araucaria Eanges, Burnett river, F. ^^"f",' 

 VoTi^m\%oxy,Fitzcdan; Edgecombe and Rockingham Bays, and Rockhampton, i>d'WJ 

 aiiJothers ; heads of the Isaac river, Bowman; Peak Duwus, F. Mueller. , 



N. S. Wales. Hunter's River and Liverpool Plans, A.CmmngJiam; New Ungianu, 

 C. htuart ; between the Lachlan and Darling, Neihon. 



PmoZ/«, K. Br. Prod. 466; A. DC. Prod. viii. 401; Eclutes mollis, Spreng- S.v^t- '• 

 b^-l, from Keppel Bay, is a softly toinentose-puhescent form of the same species, ai™"" / 

 or even more tomentose specimens are also included among those above quoted, b"' Jire t 

 dently much more rare than the glabrous ones. F. Mueller gathered a very smalI-tlo«er 

 glabrous form on the Brisbaue river. 



2. P. velntina, U. Br. Prod. 466. A tall woody climber, softly pu^e^ 

 cent or villous, the liairs usually rusty or rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves o 

 rather long petioles, from broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, truncate or corua^ 

 at the base, the primary veins distant and prominent underneath, 2 to t. ; 

 long. Cymes rather small and dense, solitary or few on opposite aXiU' J 

 peduncles. Calyx- segments lanceolate, nearly 1 line loug, the tips usuai) 

 spreadmg Corolla scarcely 2 lines long, the tube shorter than the caL^ J . 

 ^e lubes broad, rather longer than the tube, bearded inside below the nndOi • 

 Hypogynous scales truncate, usually convolute. Stamens inserted near 

 base of the corolla ; filaments flattened, not twisted, hirsute u^'^*^^ " 

 anthers ; anthers wholly exserted, the basal lobes rather short. tJu 

 crowned by 4 small glands. Fruit hard, 3 to 6 in. long, tomentose or . 

 brous, tarddy separating more or less completely into 2 foUicles.— A- 

 Prod. viu. 401 ; Echites vdutim, Spreng. Svst. i. 634. 



