536 Lxxxvi. GESNKRiACE.is. IJirea. 





antlier-cells quite divaricate, forming a single narrow-oblong cell Stigma of 

 2 short broad lobes. Capsule from f to above 1 in. long. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, JF. Hill, Ballachj. At first sight closely resemhles 



the N. Chinese B. hygromeinca, Br. {Borcoceras^ Bange), which has the same foliage^ hut 



the scape ia the Chinese plant is less divided, the corolla-tube much larger (that figured iu 



llelcss. Ic. V. t. 95, is an imperfectly developed bud), and the anthers reniform on short 

 filaments. 



Oedek- lxxxvii. BIGNONIACE^. 



"Flowers irregular. Calyx tubular or campanulate, truncate tootlied or la- 

 terally split. Corolla-tube elongated or rarely short and campanulate ; lobes 5, 

 spreading, often arranged in 2 lips, variously imbricate or rarelv induplicate- 

 valvate ui tlie bud. Statuens 2 or 4, in pairs, inserted in tbe tube, tlie fifth 

 stannnodiuni usually small, rarely wanting. Anthers 3-celled, the cells 

 opening longitudinally. Ovary usually 2-celled, with 2 distinct placentas in 

 each cell attached to the dissepiments, and either contiguous or separated by 

 a considerable interval, or, in some genera not Australian, the dissepiment 

 discontinued between the placentas," and the ovary then 1-celled j ovules 

 several, often numerous to each placenta. Style filiform, with 2 short stig- 

 inatic lobes. Fruit a capsule, often elongated, opening loculicidally or septi- 

 tragally in 2 valves, leaving the dissepiment free. Seeds transverse, usually 

 fialtdied and bordered by a membranous wing, without albumen. Embryo 

 straight or rarely curved ; cotyledons flat or fleshy ; radicle next the hilura. 

 rees shrubs or woody climbers, very rarely (in species not Australian)' 

 herbs. Leaves opposite or rarely scattered, compound or rarely simple, 

 withn,,! stipules, riowers solitary in the axils or more frequentlv panicu- 



without 

 late. 



A.f«r ^'f; /!'"°'^ ^"^''■'^'y tropical, and most abundant iu South America, with a few 

 Asiatic and Afncau species. Of the four Australian ircnera, two extend at least to tropical 



PndP.'ntr R /!i'''rh'''^''°°?^"''' ofa^'^'e^v Caledonian plant, the fourth appears to be 

 U l.,l L; V n .""^f " '"'* 1"'=*^"* "' a ■''tate of great confusion, and not the less so that 



n hp tf" ^f- ? ^' elaborated by different botanists, who entertain very different views as 

 vJv ,,n / f.^"^ture of the ovary. The limits of the genera must therefore remnia 



All th i^'' T"i-" ^ satisfactory rearrangement of the whole shall have been laid before us. 

 dpln PP, .r Jr.!™ S^""'^. ^"^lon? to De CandoUe's second subtribe Catalpea. m which the 

 fo> P m?hn •? w' ?f P'"^' '' loculicidal. the dissepiment being transverse, that is, attached (bc- 

 toie maturity) to the centres of the valves. 

 Stamens included iu the corolla-tnbe. 



Sv^rr'' "■ '^'=,VV ^'^°^^^'l- ^^'^"dy climbers 1. Tecoma. 



Stnmen^ ^P"tliaceous. spht longitudinally. Erect trees 2. Spathodea. 



fetamens cxserted, longer than the corolla. 



er^th con^'^'lV ^"^'^ i"J"Pli-te-valvate. Woody climb- 

 Co ml iThJ^'""^ \'^^'' • . . . 3. Haussmaxnia. 



1. TECOMA, Juss. 

 Calyx truncate or shortly 5-toothed. Corolla tubular, the lobes spread! n. 

 early equal, obsciircly2-Iipped or oblique. Stamens 4, in pairs, included 

 HI the tube; anther-cells divei-ino- or divaricate. Stvle with 2 short ovate 



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