52 Some hitherto unknown Australian Plants. 



somewhat smaller, lanceolate-subulate, all deciduous. Calyx 

 green, not membranous, almost funnel-shaped, scantily 

 downy, valvate in aestivation, equally 5-cleft ; its lobes lance- 

 olate-oblong, three-nerved, 3-4 lines long; tube oblong- 

 cylindrical, very indistinctly ribbed, about half an inch long. 

 Petals imbricate in aestivation, nearly of equal form, 9-10 

 lines long, pale red or nearly white, bi-lobed at the base of 

 the lamina, inside almost glabrous, their claw \ inch long. 

 Filaments compressed filiform, almost of equal size, about 1| 

 inch long, glabrous, towards the base pale, towards the apex 

 dark red. Anthers attached in the middle of their back, 2 

 lines long, hastate-oblong, yellow with red margin. Pollen 

 golden yellow. Style compressed filiform, red, about half an 

 inch long, smooth. Stigma peltate, smooth, green. Stalk 

 of the ovary downy, |-| inch long. Pod oblique-oblong, 

 compressed, 2-4 inches long, about one inch broad, 3-6- 

 seeded. Seeds shining-brown, smooth, oblique, kidney- 

 shaped or roundish-ovate, compressed, varying in length 

 between 4 to 7 lines. 



I have in grateful veneration attached to this noble plant 

 the illustrious name of the Nestor of botanists, who has given 

 in our science one of the very few examples of unremitting, 

 ever disinterested labours continued to the most venerable 

 age. 



It is yet unknown which species of Bauhinia extends to 

 extra- tropical latitudes on Cooper's River, where one member 

 of this genus was observed both by Captain Sturt and Mr, 

 Gregory. 



Bossiaa phylloclada. 



Glabrous, leafless; branches broad- winged ; branchlets 

 compressed, leaf-like, long-lanceolate, blunt, with alter- 

 nate remote large teeth, with a thick midrib and spread- 

 ing nerves ; pedicels arising from the apex of the nerves, 

 solitary, naked towards the summit, provided at the 

 middle with two opposite bracteoles which are widely 

 remote from the basal bracts j keel and standard twice 

 as long as the wings ; the former as well as the calyx 

 woolly fringed; pods stalked, oblique-oblong. 

 On the edges of the sandstone tableland, and on stony 

 declivities, and barren bushy undulations of Arnhem's Land. 

 A good-sized shrub, with many spreading branches ; calyx 

 3 lines long ; its upper lip large, with blunt lobes, the lower 

 one with narrow lanceolate teeth; corolla yellow, petals of 



