992 LXXIX. APOCYNACE^. [Parsoii.Ha. 



2. P. velutina (velvety), R. Br. Prod. 466; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 318. 

 A tall woody climber, softly pubescent or villous, the hairs usually rusty or 

 rarely nearly glabrous. Leaves on rather long petioles, from broadly ovate 

 to ovate-oblong, truncate or cordate at the base, the primary veins distant and 

 prominent underneath, 2 to Sin. long. Cymes rather small and dense, solitary 

 or few on opposite axillary peduncles. Calyx-segments lanceolate, nearly 1 line 

 long, the tips usually spreading. Corolla scarcely 2 lines long, the tube shorter 

 than the calyx, the lobes broad, rather longer than the tube, bearded inside 

 below the middle. Hypogynous scales truncate, usually convolute. Stamens 

 inserted near the base of the corolla; filaments flattened, not twisted, hirsute 

 under the anthers ; anthers wholly exserted, the basal lobes rather short. Ovary 

 crowned by 4 small glands. Fruit hard, 3 to Gin. long, tomentose or glabrous, 

 tardily separating more or less completely into 2 follicles. —A. DC. Prod. viii. 

 401 ; Echites velutina, Spreng. Syst. i. 634. 



Hab.: Endeavour River, Banks and Solander ; Keppel Bay, E. Brown; Port Denison and 

 Edgecombe Bay, Dallachy ; Eockhampton, O'Shanesy ; Broadsound, Bowman. 

 Var. ? glabrescens. Foliage at length nearly glabrous. — Cape York, Darnel. 



3. P. nesophila (an island species), Bail. Ql. Api. Journ. i. pt. iii. A tall 

 climber, the young growth and inflorescence clothed with rust-coloured hairs. 

 Leaves oblong-cordate, 4 to Sin. long, 2 to Sin. broad, on petioles of about lin. 

 Peduncles 3^in. long, very shortly forked at the end, each branch bearing a few 

 closely crowded flowers. Calyx- segments 1 line long, recurved. Corolla-lobes 

 slightly overlapping, yellow, orifice of short tube hairy. Hypogynous scales 2- 

 lobed. Stamens inserted near the base of the corolla ; filaments not twisted, 

 hairy, flat. Anthers nearly as long as the corolla, basal lobes prominent. Fruit 

 5 or 6in. long, narrow, hard and tardily separating. 



Hab.: Thursday Island. 



Nearly allied to P. velutina, E. Br. 



4. P. laeichhardtii (after Dr. L. Leiohhardt), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 128 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 319. A rather slender twiner, glabrous or the branches and 

 inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, rounded 

 or cordate at the base, 2 to 4in. long. Flowers in rather small loose dichotomous 

 cymes, terminal or on short axillary branchlets, the pedicels short. Calyx- 

 segments about 1 line long, lanceolate, with spreading tips. Corolla-tube rather 

 broad, about 1 line long, the lobes acute, as long as the tube, densely bearded 

 inside at the base, the edges slightly overlapping in the bud. Filaments very 

 short, inserted in the base of the corolla-tube ; anthers united in a cone, of which 

 the point only protrudes from the tube. Hypogynous scales broad, emarginate. 

 Fruit unknown. — Lyonsia Leichhardtii, F. v. M, I.e. 



Hab.: Wide Bay, Leichhardt. 



5. P. ventricosa (corolla-tube inflated), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. 

 ii. 71, Fragm,. vi. 130 ; Benth Fl. Austr. iv. 319. A glabrous twiner with slender 

 branches. Leaves petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with the point often 

 long and acute, truncate or cordate at the base, almost membranous, penniveined, 

 li to 2fin. long. Cymes small, almost umbellate, on slender opposite axillary 

 peduncles much shorter than the leaves. Calyx-segments rather broad, acute, 

 about 1 line long, very spreading, without basal glands. Gorolla-tub'e inflated, 

 nearly globular, contracted at the throat, nearly 2 lines diameter ; lobes acute, 

 about as long as the tube, bearded inside at the throat, the edges narrowly over- 

 lapping in the bud. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube ; filaments 

 short, not twisted ; anthers exserted, connivent in a cone, the basal lobes short 

 broad and spreading, each anther with a longitudinal prominent rather thick 

 wing-like appendage on the back, giving the stamina! body the appearance of the 



