ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYN ACER, 111 
cylindricus, superne campanulatus, fauce nudus ; ; segmenta 5, latissime dolabriformia, angulo sinistro 
acuto, dextrorsum convoluta, subrotatim expansa. Stamina 5, omnino inclusa; filamenta breviter 
linearia, margine pilosa, ad contractionem tubi inserta; anthere lineares, subacute bifurcate, apice 
in appendices 4plo longiores, tenuissime lineares, spiraliter tortas prolongatz. Discus e lobis 5 
oblongis carnosis constans. Ovaria 2, oblonga, disco 2plo longiora. Stylus subtenuis; clavuncula 
incrassata, imo in membranam late peltatam expansa. Stigmata 2, obtusa, seepe pilosa, terminalia. 
Folliculi 2, longi, teretes. Semina plurima, imbricata (non alata), compressa, apicem versus lanu- 
ginosa, ecomosa. 
Suffrutices Antillani et Columbienses, subscandentes ; folia opposita, interdum ternata aut verti- 
cillata, ovata vel oblonga, breviter petiolata ; panicule terminales aut axillares; fores speciosissimi, 
lutei vel albi. $ 
1. CHARIOMMA SURRECTA, nob.: Echites suberecta, Sw. (non Jacq.) Observ. p. 104; Andrews in Bot. 
Repos. tab. 187; Sims, Bot. Reg. xxvii. tab. 1064, var. 8; Lunan, Hort. Jam. ii. 144: Nerium sar- 
mentosum (2), P. Browne, Jam. p. 180: Neriandra suberecta, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 422: Hemadictyon 
suberectum, Don, Dict. iv. 23: Urechites neriandra, Griseb. Fl. B. W. Ind. p. 415. In Antillis : 
non vidi. 
This species has been confounded with the Zchites suberecta of Jacquin by every 
botanist, from Swartz downwards (except De Candolle), both plants being natives of 
Jamaica; but this differs in many essential particulars, especially in its inflorescence, 
with large yellow flowers, in the position of its stamens, terminated by long twisting 
filiform appendages, and the presence of a disk. It grows in savannas, flowering all the 
year round, is a shrubby plant, charged with milky juice, and, when supported by other 
shrubs, grows to a height of 10 feet, but in the open savannas to only 8 or 4 feet, some- 
times even to only 1 foot. Its branching stem is glabrous, the branches straight, weak, 
terete, pubescent, the dilated axils 2-3 in. apart; opposite leaves ovate, rounded at 
the base, subobtuse and mucronate at the apex, subcoriaceous, entire, with very 
revolute margins, above nitid, reticulated, somewhat pallid beneath, subhirsutulous, 
24 in. long, 11-12 in. broad, on channelled puberulous petioles 3 lines long; racemes 
lateral at the nodes, 2-21 in. long; peduncle bare for the length of 1-13 in., trifid above, 
and bearing 5-7 opposite flowers on pedicels 2-4 lines apart and 3-5 lines long, each 
with a basal bracteole 3-4 lines long; sepals linear acuminate, hirsute, 3-4 lines long; 
corolla very large; tube cylindrical, 15 lines long, contracted near its base for a quarter 
of its length, swelling above, 5 lines broad in the mouth, hispidly pubescent externally, 
with red striate lines within; segments roundly dolabriform, acute at the sinister angle, 
dextrorsely convolute, rotately expanded, smooth inside, membranaceous, yellow, 12 
lines long, 9 lines broad; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube, included; 
Miish short, pilose; anthers linear, corneous below and bifurcate, prolonged at the 
summit into very long filiform appendages, spirally twisted together, and nearly reaching 
the mouth; disk of 5 oblong, free, crenate lobes, surrounding the 2 small ovaries; style 
short and slender, clavuncle incrassate; stigmata 2, obtuse, terminal. The 2 follicles, 
, According to Swartz, are very long, terete and pubescent. Sloane says they are set 
together like bull’s horns. They contain several imbricate seeds, lanuginous towards 
the apex, as in Elytropus and Skytanthus. 
The whole plant is extremely poisonous. 
