Dlplaiithera.] Lxxxvii. bignoniace^. 541 



pedicellate in each fork. Eracts linear, minute. Calyx coriaceous, about ^ 

 in. long, the lobes acute, as long as the tube. Corolla-tube shortly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx, the lobes as long as the tube, broadly rounded. Sta- 

 mens and style exceeding the corolla by an inch or more, very divergent. 

 Hypogynous disk rather thick. Capsule (only seen open with the valves de- 

 tached) 2 to 3 in. long, the valves hard and woody, smooth inside with a lon- 

 gitudinal line probably where the dissepiment was attached, the placenta- 

 beariiv^ dissepiment not broad and rather thick. Seeds apparently ripe, but 

 the embryo not perfect in those examined.— F. Muell. m Seem. Journ Bot. 

 V. 212 ; Buhoeria nobiVmimaox Tecomella Buhceri, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. U7 ; 

 Beplauchea Bulwerii, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 72. 



Queensland. Endeavour river, ' 5««-t'* and Solander ; Cape York, M^GilHvray, 

 Daemel; Rockingham Bay, Dallachj. 



F. Mueller describes the upper leaves as 2-foliclate. I have in vain sought /or these b.- 

 foliolate leaves in his own as well as in the Ilookcriau hcrharuim. lie was probably raisltd 

 by the young shoots In some of the upper axils bearing only a pair of leaves, but always witH 

 the terminal bud between them. 



Oedee lxxxviii. ACANTHACE^. 



Flowers irregular. Calyx more or less deeply divided into 5 lobes seg- 

 ments or distinct sepals, the upper one often smaller and some nnes wanting 

 or the 2 lowest united into one. Corolla with a long or short tube, the 

 limb either 2-lipped or of 5 spreading lobes, contorted or otherwise unb i- 

 cate in the bnd or expanded into a single lower lip. Stamens i^^J^'t?^^^ ^^^ 

 tube, 4 in oairs or 2 only, the upper ones then reduced o ^tam nodia o 

 entii;iv wanting. Anther^ 2-celled or 1-celled by the abortion of the o the 

 cell. Ovary s^q^erior, 2-celled, with 3 or more ovules or rarely a s"|l ^"^ 

 in each cell. Style simple, usually subulate, with an entire oi 2-lobe 

 stigma, the lobes'not dilated and the upper one often ^''^f ^^f " « ™f 

 toolh. Capsule opening loculicidally in 2 Takes, "sua ly ela cd > > - 

 curved and bearing^ the placentas along their centre Seeds u^uajb Jat, a - 

 tached to hooked processes from the dissepiment called '-^'"^^ «' ° . " /^ . 



first two tribes the^eeds .lobular and resting on /^^P-^^^P^^^^^^^^^^^^^i^Xvo 

 mere papilla, sometimes almost inconspicuous. Albumen none Enb.jo 

 xisuallv eurved.-Herbs shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves opposite, ee or 



usually curved.— Herbs snruus ui m.^^.j "--^^- - vi' vpr. nxiilirv or 



rarely toothed, or in a few species not Australian lobed ^ ° "/^/^^^^ .^ > Jl 

 terminal, in spikes racemes or clusters, more or ^^^f. "'^^^ f^\ ' '^^^P^^^^ 

 inflorescence centripetal, the secondary sometimes dichoto nou. and centu 

 fugal. Bractcoles rarely wanting and sometimes large and leal^ . 



A large Order, diffused o;er both the New and the Old ^^;«;-^> ^|;;^fly;;^^^^ ^JS 



a very few spceies occurring in more temperate region , ^^^f ^^ X' "^ 0^1,°;, ex- 

 southern henlsphere. Of the eleven A"strahan genera ten re A lat^c mo t of^ t ^^^^^ 

 tending into Africa, and several are also Amencnn The «t^t>on ot Be I J ^^ 



species of the eleventh genus {GraptophjUum) is uncertain, piobably 



Archipelago. 



Dr. T. Anderson, who has elaborated the Atncan and E. f'*'''^ J^^^^e^ published; and 

 success, but unfortunately his 'ietailedsenenccharacers have not yg^^^^^^^ p^^^. ^^^^ 



m the vcrv concise svnoptic enumeration in the .Journal oi 



