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NEW SPECIES OF PLANTS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES, 
BiGNOIIACEjE. 
Tecoma Baileyana, sp.nov. 
(PI. li. — left division.) 
A tall woody climber, glabrous. Leaves pinnate with 7 to 9 
leaflets, sometimes exceeding 2 feet, opposite or in whorls of 3 or 
4, petiole 3 inches long. 
Leaflets oblique, usually 7 but sometimes 9, large, about 5 inches 
long and over 2 inches broad, ovate acuminate, rounded at the base 
or shortly tapering into an exceedingly short petiole, pale coloured 
underneath, reticulations very prominent below but less marked 
above, margins slightly recurved, articulate on the rhachis. 
Flowers in axillary racemes or interrupted spikes from 3 to 15 
inches long of a cream colour, but touched inside on the lobes and 
throat with a delicate shade of pink. Calyx glabrous, 5-toothed, 
of a purplish-brown colour. Corolla-tube incurved, 6 lines long, 
not dilated upwards, but perfectly cylindrical, covered inside and 
out with minute glandular hairs or processes very numerous on 
the lobes; the lobes almost equal, acuminate-obtuse. Stamens 4, 
in pairs included in the tube. Pistil longer than the stamens, 
style with 2 short ovate stigmatic lobes. 
Capsule unknown. 
flab.— Mullumbimby Creek, Tweed River, N.S.W. (W.B.) 
Analysis showing the differences of this plant from cognate 
species : — - 
Flowers in a long raceme or spike, 
corolla incurved, not dilated up- 
wards, 1 line in diameter. Leaf- 
lets about 5 inches Tecoma Baileyana. 
Flowers in a loose panicle, corolla 
slightly incurved and dilated up- 
wards, 3 lines in diameter, leaflets 
variable, not exceeding 3 inches . T. anstralis. 
