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bracteolated; flowers white, like those of jessamine, pedicellated ; sepals lanceolate acute, 
equal, 6 times shorter than the tube of the corolla, having at their base inside 5 denticu- 
lated scales; the tube of corolla 4 lines long, swollen at its base, pubescent in the throat, 
border-segments a little shorter than the tube, expanded, insequilateral, roundly obovate ; 
stamens inserted in the base of the tube; anthers linear sagittate, cohering in a cone 
by adhesion to the clavuncle; 2 ovaries conically pointed, plano-convex, apparently 
without a disk; the 5 toothed scales mentioned by Kunth belong to the sepals. These 
characters, especially the position of the stamens, are those of Peschiera. 
31. PESCHIERA LITORALIS, nob.: Tabernemontana litoralis, H. B. K. iii. 228: A. DC. l. c. p. 363. In 
Campéche: non vidi. 
Branches smooth, dichotomous ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acute at the base, subacuminate, 
membranaceous, with entire margins, midrib and nerves prominent below, green above, 
paler beneath, nearly 5 in. long, 2 in. broad, on channelled petioles 4 lines long, their 
margins conjoined by a transverse line; opposite interpetiolar panicles, shorter than the 
leaves; peduncle subdichotomous, with few bracteolated flowers 2 in. long; sepals linear- 
subulate, fleshy, with membranaceous margins, very imbricated, the 2 interior narrower ; 
corolla salvershaped, tube cylindrical and twisting, 4-5 times as long as the calyx, 
border-segments very expanded, half-obovate, equal, shorter than the tube; stamens 
inserted upon a pilose ring, near the base of the tube; ovaries 2, ovate. 
From its salvershaped corolla with a long tube, with stamens fixed near its base, and 
its ovaries without a disk, this species well accords with Peschiera. 
32. PESCHIERA MULTIFLORA, Spruce, MS. : Tabernemontana Benthamiana, Müll. l. c. p. 80. In Amazonas: 
v. s. in hb. meo et alior. prope Obidos (Spruce 235). 
A suffruticose species 6-10 feet high, with cinereous-brown branchlets, with axils 
3 in. apart: the leaves are 3-5 in. long, 13-24 in. broad, on very slender petioles 
2-3 lines long; they are very acute at the base, shortly acuminated at the apex: the 
peduncle of the copious dichotomous corymb is 2-5 lines long, 2 primary branches 
4 lines, the secondary 3 lines; the pedicels 2 lines long, with lanceolate bracteoles 14 line 
long; sepals 1 line long; tube of corolla 5 lines long, swollen below, narrowed above, 
pilose within; stamens fixed a little above the base, segments of border broadly dola- 
briform, subfleshy, 5 lines long, with sinistrorse convolution. 
33. PESCHIERA BREVIFLORA, nob.: Tabernemontana breviflora, Müll. l. c. p. 79. Prov. Espirito Santo, 
inter Campos et Victoria : non vidi. 
A species said to be near P. multiflora: leaves elliptic lanceolate, shortly acute at both 
ends, submembranaceous, subopake above, below veinless, with about 10 distant pairs of 
nerves; corymbs terminal, compactly many-flowered, divided at the base, a little shorter 
than the leaves; flowers subsparse; peduncle very short, its branches rather long; 
bracteoles ovately triangular, subobtuse, short, erect; flowers 6 lines long; sepals 
acutely triangular, $ line long; tube of corolla slender, 33 line long, pubescent within, 
