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long, 1-14 in. broad, on petioles 2-8 lines long; secondary branchlets of panicle 4 lines 
long, bracteolated in the middle; tertiary branchlets 3 lines long; pedicels 2 lines long; 
sepals 14 line long; tube of corolla in bud 4 lines long. 
37. PESCHIERA LORIFERA, nob.: ramulis dichotomis, pallide brunneis, striolatis, axillis remotis et annu- 
latis: foliis heterophyllis, longe ellipticis, imo acutis, apice in acumen longum et angustatum subito 
attenuatis, membranaceis, marginibus revolutis subundulatis, supra viridibus, pruinoso-opacis, nervis 
tenuissimis utrinque prominulis, subtus pallidis, flavicantibus; petiolis tenuibus, canaliculatis, limbo 
25plo brevioribus : panicula in dichotomiis, brevi, peduneulo ramisque brevissimis, pedicellis longi- 
oribus, bracteolatis ; sepalis parvis, obtuse oblongis, margine membranaceis, singulis squamula 
3-lacinulata intus munitis ; corollz tubo anguste cylindrico, imo latiore, glabro, segmentis latiuscule 
dolabriformibus, glabris, tubo brevioribus, expansis, sinistrorsum convolutis; staminibus inclusis ; 
filamentis prope basin tubo insertis; disco nullo; ovariis 2, ovatis; ceteris ut in precedentibus. In 
Guiana: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Guiana Brit. (Schomb. 138), Surinam (Hostmann 1312). 
Axils 3—4 in. apart; leaves 54 and 44 in. long, 24 and 14 in. broad, on petioles 3 and 
2 lines long; panicle 13 in. long; peduncle 2 lines, its branches 14 line long, each 
. 2-flowered; pedicels 5 lines long; sepals 1 line long; tube of corolla 5 lines long, seg- 
ments 33 lines long. 
38. PescurgnA ? Leg, nob.: Tabernemontana Linkii, A. DC. 364: Tabernemontana multiflora, R. & Sch. 
Syst. iv. 431 (non Sm.). In Brasilia: non vidi. 
A species with characters obscurely defined. It has smooth dichotomous branchlets, 
with ovate-lanceolate leaves, acuminated, subrepand, smooth, membranaceous, 3—4 in. 
long, 14 in. broad, on petioles 3-4 lines long; axillary corymbs in the dichotomies of the 
branches, many-flowered, dichotomously divided; sepals obtuse, 13 line long; tube of 
corolla 44 lines long, segments 3 lines long. 
39. PESCHIERA PRECLARA, nob.: ramulis virgatis, pallide griseis, subangulatis, striatis, sparse lenticellatis, 
ad nodos remotos dilatatis: foliis majusculis, lanceolato-oblongis, imo acute cuneatis, apice sensim 
acutis et in acumen lineare reflexum attenuatis, glaberrimis, flaccide chartaceis, supra leete viridi- 
bus, opacis, nervis tenuibus semiimmersis, divaricatis, arcuatim nexis, costa tenui, flavida, semi- 
immersa, subtus pallidioribus opacis, costa prominente, nervis flavidis prominulis, venis transversis 
reticulatis ; petiolis semiteretibus, imo fuscis, limbo 15plo brevioribus : racemo terminali ; pedunculo 
subtenui tereti, petiolo 4plo longiore, alternatim plurifloro; pedicellis brevibus; sepalis oblongis, 
obtusis; corolla ignota; disco nullo; ovariis 2, striatis. In Caracas: v. s. in hb. meo (Cockburn). 
A species with the habit and inflorescence of Peschiera tenuiflora, Póppig (tab. 280), 
from the same region, but with much larger leaves, having the same texture and 
venation; the upper internode is 12 in. long, the lower one more than 4 in. long; the 
leaves are 73-10] in. long, 23-33 in. broad, on petioles 6-9 lines long, not united at 
their base by a transverse line; the solitary peduncle is 14 in. long. The pedicels and 
calyces were lost after the above memorandum was made; little doubt, however, can be 
entertained that it is a species very near Póppig's plant from the Amazonas river, in 
the same longitude as Caracas. 
