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covered with a brown velvet ; teeth of the bell shaped 

 calyx almost deltoid, as long as the tube ; petals ovate 

 and ovate-oblong, velvet-silky, not spreading, with short 

 claws ; filaments free, all fertile ; pods oblong, flat, few- 

 seeded, their stalk not adnate to the calyx. 

 Not rare in Arnhem's Land and around the Gulf of Car- 

 pentaria. 



A small or middle-sized tree. This species, which I have 

 named in memory of Dr. Leichhardt, who, like Allan Cun- 

 ningham, referred to it repeatedly in his journal, resembles 

 very much the Bauhinia Carroni, but differs, besides in the 

 above notes, by the following characters : — 



The leaves are downy whilst young, somewhat larger, the 

 pedicels longer, the pods broader, and the seeds larger. 

 Bauhinia Carroni commences with the Brigalow Scrub to 

 occur where Bauhinia Leichhardtii ceases to exist. Whether 

 the differences pointed out between the two species are, as it 

 seems unlikely, caused by the diversity of the climate in the 

 respective tracts which they occupy, remains yet to be ascer- 

 tained. 



Bauhinia Hookeri. 



(Sect. Lysistemon.) 



Leaflets broad-ovate, glabrous, as long as the petiole, free 

 to the base ; peduncles, pedicels, and calyces somewhat 

 downy ; corymbs few-flowered, on very short peduncles; 

 calyx funnel-shaped, its oblong lobes scarcely shorter 

 than the tube; petals orbicular, spreading, outside 

 slightly silky, nearly three times longer than the calyx- 

 lobes; filaments free, all fertile, and exceeding the 

 petals ; anthers hastate-oblong ; pods oblong, flat, few- 

 seeded ; their stalks not adnate to the calyx. 

 In the Brigalow scrubs from Newcastle Bange to the 

 Burnett Biver ; also sometimes on trachytic rocks, between 

 basalt boulders, and in the dry gravelly beds of rivers. 

 A tree of small size, sometimes a shrub. 

 Branchlets terete, smooth, glabrous, gray. Leaflets |-1" 

 long, opaque, 5-7-nerved, veined. Stipella, lanceolate- 

 subulate, spadiceous, about 1 line long. Corymbs terminal, 

 solitary or twine, on short peduncles, few-flowered, of agree- 

 able scent. Pedicels solitary, 3-4 lines long, downy. Basilar 

 bracteole ovate-lanceolate, about 1 line long ; the two lateral 

 ones inserted a little above the base of the pedicel, opposite, 



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