Lyomia.] LXXIX. APOOYNACE2E- 991 



thick and irregularly ribbed ; separating freely from the endocarp. Seeds 3 

 lines long, tapering towards each end and wrinkled on the sides. Coma light- 

 brown, hairs about lin. long. — Parsonsia eucalyptifolia, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 159. 



Hab.: Brigalow scrub on the Suttor and between the Dawson and Mackenisie Bivers, F. v. 

 Mueller ; Nerkool Creek and Flinders River, Bowman ; Warwick, Beckler. 



11. PARSONSIA, R. Br. 



(After James Parsons, M.D.). 



(Heligme, Blmne.) 



Calyx with an irregular ring of minute glands inside at the base or with 

 few or none. Corolla-tube cylindrical or nearly globular ; lobes spreading, 

 contorted in the bud, the edges slightly overlapping, the throat without scales. 

 Stamens inserted at or below the middle of the tube, the filaments often twisted 

 together under the anthers ; anthers oblong-lanceolate or linear, wholly or 

 partially exserted, cohering in a cone or ring round the stigma, each with 2 

 rigid basal lobes usually devoid of pollen. Hypogynous scales 5, as long as the 

 ovary, free or united in a plicate ring. Ovary 2-celled, with numerous ovules 

 in each cell. Stigma surrounded by a ring or membranous expansion at the 

 base, usually 2-lobed. Fruit elongated, nearly terete, separating more or less 

 completely into 2 follicles. Seeds with a coma or tuft of long silky hairs at the 

 hilnm. — ^Tall and woody or slender climbers. .Leaves opposite. Flowers in 

 terminal or axillary corymbose cymes. Bracts small. 



A small genus, extending over E. India, the Archipelago, the South Pacific Islands, and New 

 Zealand. The Australian species appear all to be endemic. The overlapping of the corolla- 

 lobes is sometimes slight, but is easily observed on the unexpanded bud. — Benth. 



Corolla- tube cylindrical or ovoid. Anthers without appendages on the 

 back. 

 Anthers wholly exserted from the eoroUa-tube. 

 Cymes terminal or on short axillary branches. Leaves narrow or broad, 



not cordate, glabrous or tonientose 1. P. lanceolata. 



Cymes on long axillary peduncles. Leaves broad, usually cordate. 



Plant usually rusty-pubescent 2. P. velutina. 



Anthers nearly as long as the corolla, the basal lobes prominent ... 3. P. nesopMla. 

 Anthers with the tips only protruding. Cymes terminal or on short 



axillary branches. Plant glabrous or nearly so 4. P. Leichhardtii, 



Corolla-tube nearly globular. Anthers with a prominent longitudinal 

 appendage or wing on the back . 5. P. ventricosa. 



1. P. lanceolata (leaves lanceolate), R. Br. Prod. 466; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 318. A tall woody climber, glabrous or the young branches under side of 

 the leaves and inflorescence shortly pubescent or rarely tomentose-pubescent 

 all over, often but not always glaucous and not rust-coloured. Leaves shortly 

 petiolate, elliptical-oblong or lanceolate, more rarely oval or almost orbicular, 

 obtuse mucronate or shortly acuminate, not cordate, the margins usually 

 recurved, the veins scarcely conspicuous on the upper side, pale or light-brown 

 and penni veined underneath, mostly 2 to Sin. long. Cymes usually compact, 

 terminal or on short axillary branches. Calyx-segments unequal, from under 

 1 line to above 1| line long. Corolla- tube shorter than the calyx, slightly 

 constricted at the attachment of the stamens ; lobes about 2 lines long. Fila- 

 ments spirally twisted under the anthers; anthers wholly exserted, linear, 

 without dorsal appendages. Fruit 3 to 5in. long, dividing into rather thin 

 follicles. Seeds attenuate into a short beak at the hilum, with a silky tuft of 

 I to fin. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 402 ; Echites lanceolata, Spreng. Syst. i. 634 ; 

 Parsonsia glaucescens, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 126. 



Hab.: E. coast, 2?. Brown; Araucaria Ranges, Burnett River, F. v. Mueller; Port Denison, 

 Fitzalan; Edgecoml<e and Rockingham Bays and Eockhampton, Dallaqhy and others; heads 

 of the Isaac River, Bowman; Peak Downs, F. v. Mueller. 



