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2 mm., front 4'5 mm. long, the free tips of these last narrowly triangular, 

 acuminate, about 1 mm. long. Corolla white ; tube 8-9 mm. long, at the 

 mouth about 4 mm. in diameter ; central lobes of the hind lip connate 

 beyond the middle, 2'5 by 4*5 mm. ; front lip 6 by 5 mm. Nutlets 

 suborbicular in outline, dark, polished, 1'5 mm. in diameter. 



Besides several floral points, the very small leaves serve in this case as an 

 easy mark of distinction. 



BlGNONIACE^E. 



TECOMANTHE VOLUBILIS Gibbs, p. nov. 



Sujf'rutex scandens, volubilis, glaberrimus ; ramuli teretes, cortice griseo- 

 striguloso, lenticellis prominulis obtectis. Folia parva, opposita, petiolata, impari- 

 pinnata, foliola 4-jugata, opposita, petiolata, elliptica, obtusa vel acuta, basi cuneata, 

 apicem 1-3-plo serrata, margine recurvata, coriacea, nitida, anteriora sursum rainore 

 supra venis lateralibus 2-3 impressis, subtus glanduloso-punctata. Flores majusculi, 

 axillares, breviter racemosi. Calyx campanulatus, 5-lobus, lobi ina^qualibus (posticis 

 2 majoribus), acuminatis, ciliatis. Corolla late inf undibuliformis, rosea, tubus sursum 

 dilatatus, extus apice pilosus, intus supra basin glaber, lobi cleltoideo-acuti, quin- 

 qucfidi, tomentoso-marginati, quarum duo majores. Stamina 4, didyma, inclusa ; 

 filamenta tiliformia, glabra, basi aliquantum stupposa ; antherae loculis divergentibus. 

 Stylus filiformis, glaber ; stigma bilamellatum. Ovarium cylindraceurn glabrum, 

 pseudo-biloculare, ovula pluriseriata. 



Hab. Arfak Mts., Koebre ridge, twining in shrubberies, 9000'. Fl. 

 Dec. 5603. 



A slender twining plant with pink flowers, recalling Lapageria rosea 

 Ruiz & Pav. in colour and habit. In the forest by the ? lake the plant was 

 plentiful, and the fallen corollas often conspicuous on the ground ; but on 

 Koebre Mt. it was still in flower, both on the old and the young greon wood. 

 The leaves with petioles are +5 cm. long, petioles 2*7 cm. long, sub 4-angled, 

 like the rhachis, which is contracted at the insertion of the folioles, the hitter 

 being 8 mm. long, the lower pair shortly petiolate and often smaller ; the 

 surface of the folioles when dried is transversely striate above and longi- 

 tudinally so below. Racemes +2 cm. long, with peduncle 1 cm. long, 

 bearing a pair of subulate bracts and two to three pairs of reduced leaves or 

 folioles, the upper with single flowers in their axils, on slender pedicels 1 cm. 

 long, with two opposite bracteoles 4 mm. long, borne about halfway up. 

 Calyx 2 cm. long and 8 mm. across at the base of the lobes, the longest 

 lobes 1-3 cm. and 6 mm. broad at the base ; the lobes are reflexed in flower. 

 Largest corolla + S*5 cm. long and 4 cm. broad at the base of lobes. 

 Longest stamens 4 cm. long, shorter pair 3 cm., both inserted 1 cm. from 

 the base of the tube, which widens out immediately above the point of in- 

 sertion ; anthers 5 mm. long. Style 6 cm. long, stigmatic lamella oblong, 



