Parsonsia.] Lxxv. apocyne^. 819 



N. Australia. Victoria river, F. MueUer (in fruit only). 



Queensland, Eudcuvuiir river, Ba/i^s aud Solander ; Keppel Bay, ff. Brown ; Port 



Deaison and Edgecombe Bay, Ballachy ; Rocldiainpton, O'Shanesi/; Broad Soun^, Bow- 

 man. 



N. S, "^Vales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler. 



Var. ? glabr.escens. Foliage at length nearly glabrous. — Victoria river, F. Mueller ; 

 Soatli Goulburn Island, A, Cunningham ; Cape York, BaemeL The specimens of this 

 form are none of them perfect, and require further comparison with the New Caledoiiiuu 

 Ljfonsia scabra, A. DC. 



3. P. Leichhardtii, F. MuelL Fragm, vi. 12S- A rather slender 

 twiner, glabrous or the branches and iuflorescenee minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, 2 to 4 in. 

 ionn^. 1 lowers in rather small loose dichotomons cymes, terminal or on short 

 axillary brauchlets, the pedicels short. Calyx-segments about 1 line long, 

 lanceolate, with spreading tips. Corolla-tube rather broad, about 1 line 

 long, the lobes acute, as long as the tube, densely bearded inside at the base, 

 the edges slightly overlappim^ in the bud. Filaments very sliort, inserted in 



s base of the corolla-tube ; anthers united in a cone, of which the point 

 ^y protrudes from the tube. Hvpogvnous scales broad, emargiiuite. 

 *i'uit m\\\io\\n.—Lijon-sia LeicJJiarddi, P/Muell. I.e. 



Queensland. "Wide Bay, Leichhardt, The specimens are i^\y and small. The resti- 

 vation of the corolla-lobes is described by F. Mueller as valvate, but their edges certainly 

 overlapped in the bud. I examined. 



. 4- P. ventricosa, F, MnelL in Trans. Fhil. Lid. Vict. ii. 71, Fragm. 

 VI. 130. A glabrous twiner with slender branches. Leaves petiolate, ovate- 



lanceolate, acuminate, with the point often long and acute, truncate or cor- 

 date af \ha K«^„ „T.._ , 1 • • 1 Ti x^ oi :.. 1^,.™ 



aate at the base, almost membranous, petiiiiveiiiecl, \\ to 2\ in. long. 

 ^ymes small, almost umbellate, on slender opposite axillary peduncles much 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx-seg-ments rather broad, acute, about 1 line 

 'onp very spreading, without basal glands. Corolla-tube inflated, nearly 

 globular, contracted at the tliroat, nearly 2 lines diameter; lobes acute, about 

 as long as the tube, bearded inside at the tliroat, the edges narrowly over- 

 lappmg m the bud. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube; filaments 

 !w'/'^*^ t^^isted; anthers exserted, counivent in a cone, the basal lobes 

 snort broad and spreading, eacli anther with a longitudinal prominent rather 

 ihick wmg-like appendage on the back, giving the staminal body the appear- 

 ance of the winged gynostegia of some Asclefwdem. Hypogynous scales 

 nited m an undulate plicate cup as long as the ovary. Ovary 2-celled. 

 fniit unknown. . . ^ 



M^S °«''*^*'" -S'^'s^ane riv-cr, Moretoa Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller. 

 "■ **• ^'vales. Clarence river, Beckler ; New Englaud, C Stuart. 



other ^^\\ '""^^"^'l corolla-tube, aud jieculiar aiitlier-appeiulages distinguish this from all 

 name Tr •"'luced F. Mueller to suggest that it miuht form a distinct geniis under the 



Under tJ, , ■'f'''*"'^''"'* rentricoms. A. Gray, Free. Auier.'' Acad. v. 333, refers it to Lr/ons?a, 

 case in th b f '^"'' ^'"^ corolla-lobes are valvate, which, however, I do not find t be the 



12. LYONSIA,R. Br. 



Calyx with an ii-regidar ring of minute glands inside at the base or with 



