Tecomaj] LXXXTIl, BIGNONIACE.f:, 



537 



stiamatic lol)es. Ovules numeroas, in several rows on eacli placenta. Capsule 

 (oblonjT in the Australian species) opening locuHcidally in 2 very coucave 

 valves, the dissepiment transverse with relation to the valves, and not late- 

 rally dilated. Seeds overlaying each other in several rows, flat, broadly 

 winged.— Tall woody climbers. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers in ter- 

 minal panicles. Bracts minnte ; bracteoles none. 



The genus is at present in a state of too much uncertainty to fix its geographical limits. 

 The two Australian species are enaemic, and with some hotanists alone constitute the genus 

 Pandorm. The two typical Tecom<E are West Indian and South Africa, and many other 

 more or less allied spcc'ies from tropical and northern America, from Japan, K India, and 

 S. Africa had been included in it Ly De CandoUe and others, hut have heen recently agam 

 separated from it. 

 Panicles loose. Corolla-tube under 1 in. long, the lobes less than 



half as long 1' T. anstralis. 



Panicles compact, corymbose. Corolla-tube above 1 m., the lobes more ^ 



than half as lolii:. . ; . . ; 2, T.jasmiuOLdes, 



1. T. austraUs, R. Br. Prod. 471. A tall woody glabrous climber, 

 with more or less tuiiiinij branches. Leaflets usually 5 to 9, ovate-oblong 

 oviite-Innceolale or almost linear, entire or liere and there coarsely creuate, 

 from under 1 in. to nearly 3 in. long, but exceedingly variable, all small or 

 all laro'e sometimes, especially on barren shoots, all coarsely toothed, and then 

 occasionally all verv small and much more numerous. Flowers of a yellowish- 

 while tino-ed inside with purple or red, in loose temunal panicles, leaf\^ at 

 the base tlie primary and often the secondary branches opposite, the ultimate 

 inflorescence cvmose or racemose. Calyx smooth, 1 to 1^ lines long. Co- 

 rolla-tube fron"i about J to f in. long, slightly curved and dilated upwards; 

 lobes broad, not one-third as long as the tube, the 2 upper rather smaller 

 with purple or red spots or streaks at their base, the throat bearded inside 

 under the lower lip. Capsule U to 3 in. long, usually acute at both ends, 

 the valves Lard and verv concave. Seeds very flat, obovate, surroumled by a 

 broad wing.-DC. Prod. ix. 325 ; Maund, Botamst, t. 8 ; Biffuoma Fa^'dorea, 

 Vent. Janl. Malm. t. 43; Audr. Bot. Eep. t. 86; Bot. Mag t. 86.; ^. 



Zn^:n>a:i^^^ ^:che, Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. 1847, 12 (according 

 to the character given and Seemann's verification). 



N. Australia. 



" Macdonuel Ranges in the intcrioi-, IVDouaU Stuart. 



,n.r.n= inn^lliip. «.ut bv mauv collcctors, from Cape Yorlc, D^6';^^^/, to Moretou toy 



numerous localities, sent by many c 



numerous ocaiities, seuL u^ uia.o ^v,!.^..-.-., -^y- . ^ , Ai^.^H.^n "Hr^wnQ Mifrhfll 

 d. Cunnh>gJ,a»>, F. Mueller, and others ; in the .nterior to he ^^^"^"^"^°;";^'f 'f.f „ 

 N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains frequent, ■^- ^ ''7' „^'^.*^^' «! 



265, and n,anv others; no.thvvard to Clarence ^^T ^^^'"'f V T/J'l^th; inte or o 

 southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, and Twofold Bay, F ^«f ^J^.j" j^^'^j! 

 St. George's and Peel's Ranges, A. Cuaniughcm ; LacLlau and Dai-hng rivers, L. Morton , 



'g- 



Lord Howe's Island, frcqueut, Mllne. 

 Victoria. Sealer's Cove, Daudenon 



T. lasmin 



^ and Buffalo Kauges, F. Mueller 



A tall c^Iabrous woody 



di^ioVr,::?^"" ." h,x;;;i:.nrn,e;;,.:.,,s of r. ..m,. m .!«. ..ud, 



