344 - 
Ped. communes paucilineares (v. rarius in ramulos fo- 
liatos evoluti), nedicelli nunc fere singuli, nunc erebri suc- 
cedanei, hracteolati, pellolum aeguantes vel paulle supe- 
rantes eire, 1” lougi. on 
\ 
Cal. amplus, campannlatus, 4 — 7% altıs, foliola ob- 
longo- v. ovato-triangularia (interdun lanceolata), Bas? con- 
nata, acuminata, superue pauci-serrata v. subintegerrima, 
viridia, ereeta, apice recurva, dimidiam corollam plerumque 
superantia. “ 
Cor. tubns basi tumide gibhus, tum constrictus, dein 
subeylindrieus, fauce subampliata; limbus latus expansus, 
tubi longüudinem plg. superans; pilosa, tube pallida, -Jimbo 
purpurea, 3 — 10’ longa, 12 — 14 Inta, twmbus 21/, — 
31/, amplus, 
Antherae ‚hreves, cordatae, loculis basi ‚divergeutibus, 
apiee cohaerentihus, eonnexivum parvum, vordato -semiglobo- 
sum. Glandula dorsalis tantum conspieua. Ovariim pilosum. 
Stigma late stomalomorphum. Capsula subglobosa, pazci- 
linearis, calyce ancto longe superata. 
Patria: Insulae Caribaeae, Martinica: Pera., Sieber, 
v. Rohr, Plee. Guadalupa: Bert. Jamaion: Swartz. Guinna 
Gall.: Aubl, 
IS 
E. melittifolia Mart, Nov. gen, 3. 39; DC. ®. 547; 
Book. Bot. Mag. 4720. — Besleria melittifolia Linn. Sp. 
.pl. 86%; Schrank, Hort, Monar. 1.44. — Besleria Melissae 
‚Tragi folio P’Inm. Plant.. Awere, 49; Gen. 29. .5.— B. 
‘nollissima. Wendl. Hort. Herrah. — B. betonicifolia Hort. 
Berol. ol. — Skiophila melittifolia Hnst. o). Linnaea 26. 207. 
— Gesnera corymbosa Sieb. meer. in herb. Martin. suppl. 
“n. 14; Benth. in Haok. Lond. Jeurn. 5. 368. Ä 
