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GENUS. Tecoma. Catyx 5-dentatus. Cororia subcampanulata, ore re 
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pari-pinnata vel digitata. Frores paniculati. R. Brown. Prodromus Flore 
Nove Hollandiz. Vol. 1, p. 471. ; 
SPECIES. Tecoma ausrratis. Fouts pinnatis glabris: er 5 ee 
icis, ate integris. Capcise oblongis. Cave volubili. R. Bro. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, TEcoma. Catyx 5-toothed. CoroL- 
La subcampanulate, mouth 5-lobed, unequal. Stamens 4, didyna- 
ious, the filament of the fifth sterile, shorter than the rest. The dis- 
sepiment of the capsule contrary to the valves. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, TECOMA AUSTRALIS. Root fibrous. 
Srem about the thickness of the finger, climbing, cylindrical, knotty, 
branched ; branches axillary, opposite, of a brown colour. Leaves pro- 
ceeding from the nodi of the stem and the branches opposite, petiola- 
ted, unequally pinnated, smooth, shining, of a deep green above, paler 
below. Lear.ers two or four on each side of the rachis, their petioles. 
swollen and articulated at their base. F Lowers in axillary and termi- 
nal compound racemes drooping. PEDUNCLES opposite, articulated, 
bracteated, genera'ly divided and many-flowered. Bracrts three or four, 
arranged circularly around the base of the peduncles and pedicels, 
straight lanceolate, acute, very short, falling very quickly. Caxyx 
very short, campanulate, smooth, 5-lobed, the lobes oval, obtuse, with. 
an obscure point. COROLLA monopetalous, hypogynous, tubular, irre- 
gular. Tvuse swollen, slightly curved, smooth without, hairy within, 
four times as long as the calyx. Lim open, two-lipped, upper lip two- 
lobed, inferior, longer, three-lobed, lobes curved at the margin. STa- 
MENS included in the tube; four fertile, the fifth abortive, very short. 
Ovary oval, smooth, green. Fruit a capsule, elliptico-oblong. 
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