990 LXXIX. AtOC'^NACfi^. iLyonsia. 



about 1 line long ; lobes about as long as the tube, with a ring of reflexed hairs 

 inside at the base. Anthers nearly as long as the lobes, united in a cone, with 

 short spreading basal lobes. Hypogynous scales truncate. Ovary glabrous. 

 Fruit unknown. — Parsonsia Langiana, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 128. 

 Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



5. Ii. largiflorens (flowers large), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Amtr. 

 iv. 822. A tall woody climber, the young shoots and inflorescence minutely 

 rufous-pubescent, the adult leaves nearly glabrous. Leaves petiolate, broadly 

 ovate, acuminate, truncate or cordate at the base, thinly coriaceous, 3 to 5in. 

 long. Flowers in compact cymes on the branches of loose cymes or umbels, 

 on axillary peduncles, the whole inflorescence sometimes longer than the leaves. 

 Pedicels mostly longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments pubescent, narrow, 

 acuminate, about 1 line long. Corolla pubescent, about 2f lines long, the lobes 

 lanceolate, not twice as long as the tube, bearded inside at the base^ Anthers 

 wholly exserted. Hypogynous scales slightly united at the base. Ovary 

 glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Hab.: Tow =irds the Tweed Eiver, C.Moore; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Barron and other 

 northern localities. 



6. Ii. latifolia (broad-leaved), Benth. Fl. Amtr. iv. 328. A tall 

 climber, glabrous except the minutely pubescent inflorescence. Leaves on long 

 petioles, broadly ovate, acumifiate, truncate or cordate at the base, membranous, 

 2^ to B^in. long. Flowers numerous, in dense terminal pedunculate cymes, 

 often several inches broad. Calyx -segments short. Corolla-tube exceedingly 

 short ; lobes narrow-linear, densely bearded at the base, about 2 lines long. 

 Stamens, hypogynous scales and ovary of L. eucalypti folia. Fruit unknown. 



Hab.: Wiie Baj, Bidwill; Rockingham Bay, DaHac/ij; ; Brisbane River. 



The flowers are those of L. eucalyptifolia or rather smaller, but the inflorescence appears to 

 be constantly terminal, and the leaves very different in shape and consistence. — Benth. 



7. 1m. oblongifolia (leaves oblong), Benth. Fl, Amtr. iv. 328. This is 

 considered by F. v. Mueller as a variety of L. eucalyptifolia, of which it has 

 the numerous flowers in broad cymes, with the same very short corolla-tube 

 and long linear lobes, but the inflorescences are generally terminal as well as 

 axillary, and the leaves are very differently shaped, being broadly oblong, very 

 obtuse, 8 to 4in. long and 1 to IJin. broad, on long petioles, and much thicker 

 and more coriaceous than in L. latifolia. Fruits (unripe) hard, rather thick, 

 and 2 to 3in. long, probably twice that size when full grown. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, O'Shanesy; Scrubby Creek, Bowman. 



8. Ii. eucalyptifolia (Eucalyptus-leaved), F. v. M.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 

 823. " Wedeely," St. George, Wedd. A tall woody climber, minutely pubescent 

 or glabrous. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, often 

 rather thick, the veins scarcely prominent or impressed above, the under surface 

 pale, with rather distant prominent primary veins, 4 to Sin. long or even more. 

 Cymes axillary, but only in one axil of the pair of leaves, often several inches 

 broad but shorter than the leaves, the flowers numerous. Calyx- segments 

 lanceolate, acute, above 1 line long, but often cohering or united to more than 

 half their length, the tips spreading. Corolla-tube exceedingly short ; lobes 

 linear, 2^ to 3 lines long, shortly bearded inside at the base, revolute when open. 

 Filaments slender, pubescent and slightly twisted under the anthers ; anthers 

 mucronate-acute, forming a cylinder nearly as long as the corolla, the basal 

 lobes very short. Hypogynous scales narrow. Ovary glabrous. Fruit 2^in. 

 long, 5Jines broad above the base, tapering to a blunt point; epicarp hard, 



