ON FARAD AVA, A NEW AUSTRALIAN GKNUS. 257 
ous Faraday, he names Faradcnja^ and of which only one species (F. splen- 
<f/f/rt), discovered byDallachy in woods at Eockingham Bay, was known 
to him. Dr. Mueller referred the genus to Blgnoniace/s^ and, on send- 
ing his printed description, accompanied it by a sjiecimen of the plant, 
he w^as pleased to ask my opinion with regard to the stability of the 
genus. An examination convinced me that Taradaya was identical 
with a gemis whicli for some time had engaged my attention, and 
about which I wrote^ by the last mail, to Professor Asa Gray, as one 
of the persons interested in it. The genus I hold to be a sound one, 
but Dr. Mueller, usually so correct, was, in this instance, certainly 
wrong, in referring it to Bignoniacem^ with which the plant has nothing 
to do, it being a genuine member of the Natural Onicr Verbenacete, 
closely related to Chrodendron and Oxera. Let me state the history 
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of the genus. In 1862, I described in the tenth volume of the *Bou- 
plandia,' p. 24-9, a Clerodendrov, from the Tongan or Triendly Islands, 
under the name of C. Amicornm, Shortly afterwards, Asa Gray, tra- 
velling over the same ground, also came across this species, and had 
already given it exactly the same name when the ' Bonplandia ' reached 
him. On redesciibing it in the Proceedings of the American Aca- 
demy, vol. vi. p. 50, lie added another species, C, ovalifoUmn, from the 
Yiti Islands, and pointed out that both agreed in their 4-lobed, almost 
regular calyx and coroUa, and 4 stamens, at the same time proposing 
the sectional name Tetralhyranthis for these two Clerodejidrons. At 
the beginning of this year an allied third species, collected by Mr. J. 
Storck in Viti^ reached me, which also had a 4-lobed corolla and 4 
stamens, but the calyx was almost invariably 2-lobed, the lower lobe 
frequently splitting into 2. This led to renewed examination. The 
calyx I found to be closed before anthesis and splitting or rather 
tearing irregularly into 4, 3, or 2 lobes, when the corolla is forcibly 
pushed through a very nan'ow aperture at the extreme end, indicated 
by four very minute points, one would hardly call them teeth, though 
they are in reality the teeth of the limb of the calyx. The splitting of 
the calyx is analogous to what we find in the genus Tecoma (as now 
circumscribed) and several genera of Eubignoniece ; we have nothing 
like it in the genuine CUrodendrons ; and, I think, there can be no 
doubt that this set of plants must constitute a separate genus. I 
meant to have taken this view of tlie case in dealing with them in my 
'Flora of Yiti/ and to have adopted A. Gray's sectional name for the. 
