do I owe the acquaintance of the gentleman after whom the 
present plant is named, together with the possession of a va- 
luable collection of New Holland plants, and the use of many 
excellent drawings made in that country. It has not, however, 
been my agreeable task to dedicate the genus to him, that ha- 
ving been already done in the work above quoted by Mr Al- 
lan Cunningham. " The name," he says, " now proposed, 
is intended to commemorate that of Bauron Field, Esq. late 
Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, who has, 
in his judicial capacity, much aided the advancement of the co- 
lony to its present flourishing state, and whose important re- 
searches there, in various branches of physical science, will ma- 
terially tend to confer that interest upon our distant settlement 
which it so richly deserves, and which remains, in a great mea- 
sure, to be appreciated." 
To this gentleman I am indebted for excellent dried speci- 
mens, from which I have been enabled to make the accompany- 
ing figure. I need scarcely add any remarks to Mr Cunning- 
ham's accurate description, done from living specimens, farther 
than to say, that the fruit has not so decidedly the appearance 
of a berry as might have been expected. The pericarp is of a 
membranous nature, easily separable from the pulpy substance, 
and numerous seeds within ; and, on making a careful dissection 
transversely, there appear to be two soft fleshy and large parie- 
tal receptacles, divided each into four recurved lamina, upon all 
sides of which the numerous seeds are inserted. These recep- 
tacles and seeds, too, bear so much resemblance to those of the 
Didymocarpus, given in the present number, that the plant 
may belong to that division of Bignoniacece. 
Fieldia australis was first detected by Mr G. Caley, Co- 
lonial Botanist, but not in a good state, upon the Blue Moun- 
tains in 1804. In 1822, Mr Allan Cunningham was so 
fortunate as to find it in fruit, upon naked rocks on the Five 
Islands ; and in the following year in full flower, among the 
shady woods of Tomah, where it climbs, by means of its cau- 
line radicles, upon rough rocks, much in the same way that the 
ivy does in our country, and the Begonia Urtica in Brazil. 
Fig. 1. Corolla, laid open to shew the stamens. Fig, 2. Back view of an 
anther. Fig. 3. Pistil. Fig. 4. Fruit. Fig. 5. Section of ditto. Fig. 6. 
Seeds. Fig. 7. Section of ditto— more or less magnified. 
FINIS. 
