side. Stamens 



540 LXXXVIJ. BIGNONIACE.^. \_IIaussmanHia. 



The genus, as far as at present known, is limited to the single Australian species, aud is 

 very remarkable for the £estivatiou of the corolla. I do not see the affinity with the genus 

 (or section of Tecoma) Ca7nj)sis^ suggested by P. Mueller. 



1. H. jucunda, F, MuelL Fragm. iv, 148. A tall glabrous woody 

 climber. Leaflets 3, digitate and articulate at the end of a petiole of 1 to 3 

 in., each leaflet oval or elli])tical3 shortly acuminate, entire, membranous, 

 penniveined, narrowed into a short petiolule, 2 to 4 in. long, and occasionally 

 the central leaflet confluent with one of the lateral ones, but no simple leaves 

 in the specimen seen. Flowers "purple," in short racemes in the axils of 

 the terminal pair of leaflets. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines long. Calyx 2 to 3 lines 

 long. CoroUa^ube about 1 in. long; lobes ovate, not 1 line 'long, hairy in- 

 hairy at their insertion below the middle of the tube, shortly 

 exceeding the corolla-lobes. Hypogynous disk above 1 line long. — Campsis 

 Ilaussmannii, P. Aluell. 1. c. 



Queensland. Seaview Range, Eockingham Bay, BaUachy. 



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4. DIPLANTHERA, E. Br. 



(Bulwcria, F. MaelL) 



Calyx campanulate, with 5 equal lobes, valvate and coniiivent in the bud, 

 and often cohering in 2 lips or in pairs after tiie calvx is open. Corolla with 

 a broad campanulate tube and 5 broad nearly equal lobes, imbricate in the 

 bud. Stamens 4, without the fifth staminodium, exserted, involute in the 

 bud ; anthers with 2 linear distinct cells, parallel in the bud, at length diva- 

 ricate.^ Ovary 2-celled ; ovules very numerous, crowded in several rows en 

 2 distinct but approximate placentas in each cell. Style long, with 2 oval, 

 flat, stigraatic lobes. Capsule oblong-fusiform, opening loculicldally in 3 

 woody valves leaving the placenta free. Seeds very flat, with a broad trans- 

 parent wmg.— Tree. Leaves simple, whorled or opposite. Flowers yellow, 

 lu terminal panicles. 



The genus is limited to the single Australian species, unless it should include, as suggested 

 oy ^eemann, the ^ew Caledonian Beplanchea, which is, no doubt, closely allied in foliage 

 and mfloreseence. _ Our specimens of the latter have not the flowers in a sufficiently perfect 

 stale tor examination hut Bureau describes the fifth sterile stamen or staminodium as pre- 

 sent, ana the two placentas of each cell of the ovary as distant from each other, leaving a 



K''.f''''?u . '"" *^''™ ' ^^^ ^^'^ '■'■'"' teing unknown, it remains yet to be determined 

 wlie her the two would he most appropriately considered as congeners or not. The fruit of 

 Biplanlhera closely resembles that of the Australian Tecomas. 



1 f?' P' ^^^^^•P'^y^^' ^- ^'•- Prod. 449. A moderate-sized or sometimes 



In r ff' T " ^^'^ '™°^^ ''"'I sP«»gy ^='1-^ J tl'e thick branchlets, under 

 sule ot the leaves, and inflorescence covered with a thick soft tomentura, often 

 assuming a golden or bronzed hue, and consisting of single or clustered but 

 vLo .f^ ;tf "t« ^^-n-^- Leaves crowded at tlie%nds of the branches, ia 



nv i^P If ""' -^ T. ^T;'' °^ ^■"""- slioots opposite, on short petioles, 

 ovate obtuse, entire. 1 to 2 ft. long or those in Jdiately under the panicle 

 _b to b m., tlie upper surface glabrous or slightly scabrous. Flowers yeUow, 

 in a dense terminal panicle, nearly sessile above the last leaves, the priainry 

 branches whorled, each one dichotomously branched, with a flower shortly 



