136 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOOYNACEA. 
membranaceis, nervoso-reticulatis, tubi longitudine, «estivatione dextrorsum convolutis : folliculis 2, 
teretibus, arcuatis, apice nexis, seminibus ut in S. ovata. In Brasilia, prov.Rio de Janeiro, ad 
Cantagallo : v. v. et sicco in herb. meo (4055), in flore et fructu, montibus Organensibus. 
The fistular branches 24 lines thick, narrow, curvingly upwards, with axils 6 in. apart; 
~ leaves 34-5 in. long, 22-4 in. broad, on reflexed petioles 12-15 lines long, inserted 1 in. 
above the basal margin; raceme 1-2 in. long; peduncle flexuose, 1 in. long, bearing 6 
alternate flowers on pedicels 4-6 lines long, bibracteolate in the middle; bracteoles 
linear, 2-3 lines long; sepals spathulately linear, subobtuse, 5 lines long, 1 line broad; 
tube of corolla greenish red, 16 lines long; segments pale rose-colour, 8 lines long, 5 lines 
broad; fructiferous peduncle, thickened, 1 in. long, supporting 2 arching follicles (not 
arrived at half their maturity) 4 in. long, 2 lines broad. 
Specimens of this plant were sent to Müller from Cantagalla, by Peckholt, the seeds 
of which were figured by the former under Echites peltata. The soft flexible coma of 
these seeds are gathered by the natives and called painha de penna, being used as a 
substitute for feather-down, samples of which were shown in the London International 
Exhibition in 1862. 
6. STIPECOMA MACROCALYX, nob.: Echites macrocalyx, Müll. l. c. p. 160. In prov. Bahia (Blanchet, 
Sello 1665) : non vidi. 
A species near that figured by Velloz, growing in damp shady places. Its branches are 
ferruginously tomentous; its large leaves are broadly ovate, with a short cuspidate 
acumen, peltately fixed on long petioles, subcoriaceous, above fuscous green, and slightly 
pubescent, below ochraceously fuscous, opake, densely tomentous on the nerves, which 
are arcuately conjoined within the margin; they are said to be larger than those of 
S. speciosa, nob. The opposite racemes, scarcely longer than the petioles, bear 2 or 3 
greenish-yellow flowers, each pedicel supported by 2 bracts, all as long as the calyx; 
sepals oblong-ovate, acute, erect, membranaceous, ferruginously pubescent, 1-12 in. 
long, each with an inner deeply multilaciniate basal scale; corolla glabrous, 22 in. long; 
tube stout, cylindrical, campanulate in the mouth; segments half its length, broadly 
ovate or subrotund; anthers hairy behind; lobes of disk free, as long as the 2 tomen- 
tous ovaries. 
7. STIPECOMA SPECIOSA, nob.: scandens, ramulis crassiusculis, fistulosis, striatis, ferrugineo-tomentosis, 
axillis dilatato-compressis: foliis profunde peltatis, oblongo-obovatis, imo orbiculatis et undulato- 
plicatis, apice subito acuminatis, concavis, molliter crassiusculis, marginibus subrevolutis, supra 
fusco-viridibus, opacis, obsolete puberulis, nervis 7 basalibus radiantibus, lateralibus utrinque 8 
recte divergentibus, cunctis intra marginem arcuatim nexis, prominulis, subtus ochraceo-pallidi- 
oribus, opacis, subtomentosis, costa nervisque rufulis, venis tenuissimis transversis immersis ; 
petiolis crassiuseulis, tomentosis, teretibus, longiusculis, flexuosis, deflexis: paniculis axillaribus, 
petiolo 2plo longioribus; pedunculo petiolum quante, apice 3-ramoso, ramis fastigiato-plurifloris, 
multibracteatis; bracteis linearibus; pedicellis ad medium lineari-bibracteolatis; sepalis lineari- 
lanceolatis, quam pedicelli vix brevioribus, erectis, membranaceis, sparse puberulis; corolla speciosa, 
flava, glabra; tubo cylindrico, crassiusculo, quam sepali 2plo longiore, hine valde constricto, superne 
subeampanulato ; segmentis tubum «equantibus dolabriformibus, venosis, expansis, «estivatione dex- 
