36 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEZ. 
without any disk; style short, clavuncle and stigmata as usual; follicles 2, much 
divaricated, greatly resembling those of the preceding species, but somewhat larger, 
14 in. long, 1 in. broad, each containing about 20 seeds 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines broad, 
suspended by scarlet fleshy funicles; structure of the seeds as in the preceding species, 
and as depicted by Müller. 
6. Pescmiera Lunpu, nob.: Tabernemontana Lundii, A. DC. L c. p. 365; Müll. 7. c. p. 81. Rio de 
Janeiro ad Botafogo: v. v. et sicc. in flore et fructu in herb. meo (n. 3965) ; v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 
Monte Corcovado (Gardn. 5546). 
A species differing from 7. Gaudichaudii in its more slender, more dichotomous, 
rugously striated branchlets, the younger ones smooth and closely lenticellated, its much 
darker leaves, less acute and more inzequilateral at the base, obtuse at the summit, with 
a short rounded excurrent point, subundulated margins, with a rougher surface above, 
with slender prominulent yellow nerves, yellowish opake below, with a pale interruptedly 
striated midrib and prominent yellow fine nerves, and on longer petioles: it has a more 
slender panicle with smaller flowers. The leaves are ovate, darkish and opake above, 
31-43 in. long, 13-2 in. broad, on slender channelled petioles, fossulate at the base, 
5-7 lines long; axillary panicles 13 in. long, 10-12-flowered, with many slender, divided 
branches and deciduous bracteoles; peduncle 6 lines long, its alternate branchlets 
2-4 lines long ; pedicels 2 lines long; sepals acutely ovate, pruinose, with membranaceous 
ciliolate margins, 2 line long; tube of corolla 23 lines long, yellow and subtomentose, 
rather swollen at the base, pilose within below the middle, glabrous above, segments 
shorter than the tube, dolabriform, subpuberulous within at the base; stamens inserted 
near the base of the tube, anthers 2-lobed at the base; disk none; 2 ovate ovaries, 
reddishly tomentose; style short, with an incrassated clavuncle; 2 reniformly ovate 
follicles 14 in. long, 4 in. thick, obtuse at both ends, marked by several transverse inter- 
rupted ridges muricated on their acute edges, each containing 18 seeds, 4 lines long, 
24 lines broad, suspended from the sutural placentee by stout pale yellow funicles. 
7. Pescuiera SPIxIaNa, nob.: Tabernemontana Spixiana, Mart. ; Müll. l. c. p. 78. 
In prov. Rio de 
Janeiro: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. in flore Itagoahy (Bowie et Cunningham). 
A shrub 10-12 feet high; branches terete, dichotomous, densely foliaceous ; leaves but 
little heterophyllous, elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed and gradually acute at both ends, dark 
green above, sulcate along the midrib, with semi-immersed nerves, below of a darkish 
yellow colour, opake, with prominulent reddish nerves, 5 and 5) in. long, 14 and 12 in. 
broad, on slender petioles 43 lines long; upper pairs of leaves 44 and 33 in. long, 13 and 
15 lines broad, on petioles 4 lines long; axillary panicles 2-3, fasciculated, 14 in. long ; 
peduncles 6 lines long, bearing 5-6 branchlets 1 in. long, each supporting about 3 flowers, 
on pedicels 2 lines long, with small acutely oval bracteoles; sepals triangular ovate, sub- 
obtuse, with membranaceous margins, 3 line long, each with an inner basal 4-6-lacinulate 
scale; tube of corolla cylindrical, broader at the base, segments broadly obovate, gibbous, 
pubescent within at their base and in the mouth of the tube; stamens inserted near the 
base of the tube, out of a pilose ring; disk none; ovaries 2, ovoid; follicles 2, spreading, 
broadly obovoid, obtuse, densely muricated, 13-13 in. long; seeds ovoid, channelled on 
