ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 171 
seated on a densely lanate ring in the contraetion of the tube; anthers cohering, 
3 lines long, acuminate, acutely biaristate at the base; disk urceolate, denticulate 
on the margin, shorter than the 2 pointed ovaries; style slender, 10 lines long; 
clavuncle incrassate, membranaceous at its base; follicles horizontally divergent, fusi- 
formly terete, glabrous, 51 in. long, 31 lines thick ; seeds numerous, 44 lines long, with 
an erect apical coma 15 lines long. 
7. ANISOLOBUS ZUCCARINIANUS, nOb. : Echites Zuccariniana, Stadelm. Bot. Zeit. 1841, p. 76; A. DC. l, c. 
p. 471: Anisolobus hebecarpus, var. erectus, Müll. l. c. p. 112. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz et Cuyaba : 
non vidi. 
A shrub much less in height than Spruce's plant, with narrower pubescent leaves on 
shorter petioles, and tomentous inflorescence. It has stoutish, softly pubescent branches, 
with axils 1 in. apart, having 2 acute stipules on each face; opposite leaves erect, oblong- 
elliptic, cordate at the base, shortly cuspidate and mucronate at the apex, chartaceous, 
puberulous above, velutinous beneath, with prominent costa, nerves, and transversely 
reticulated veins, 27-5 in. long, 13-23 in. broad, on petioles 1-4 lines long; panicle 
lateral, covered with yellowish or whitish tomentum, densely many-flowered; pedicels 
niveous, 6-8 lines long ; bracts ovate, acute, 1-14 line long; sepals oblong, very unequal, 
obtuse, membranaceous, pubescent, ciliate, 4-6 lines long, with an inner, bidentate, 
subulate scale; tube of corolla 15 lines long, narrowly cylindrical for half its length, 
funnel-shaped above, tomentous within; segments subunguiculate, deltoid, very inequi- 
lateral, with an uncinate tooth on the sinister angle, 9 lines long, 9 lines broad, with a 
falciform expansion, dextrorsely convolute ; stamens inserted in the contraction of the 
tube; anthers cohering, cuspidate, biaristate at the base; disk urceolate, crenately denti- 
culate on the margin, concealing the 2 subglobose ovaries; follicles teretely fusiform, 
densely pubescent. 
8. ANISOLOBUS PULCHERRIMUS, nob.: Echites pulcherrima, Pohl, in Icon. Sel.: Anisolobus hebecarpus, 
var. scandens, Müll. l.c. p. 112, tab. 33. fig. 2. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz ad Coralinha (Pohl 1383) : 
non vidi. 
A shrub with an erect short pubescent stem, with glabrous, flexuous, slender, sub- 
prostrate branches ; leaves elliptic, cordate at the base, shortly cuspidate, softly puberulous 
above, velutinous beneath, 41—5 in. long, 24 in. broad, on petioles 4 lines long ; raceme 
lateral or terminal, bearing many alternately approximate flowers, on pedicels 6-8 lines 
long; bracts ovate, 1-14 line long; sepals oblong, very obtuse, membranaceous, unequal, 
31-4 lines ‘long, very imbricate, each with an inner basal 2-dentate scale; tube of 
corolla 15 lines long, narrowly cylindrical at the base for half its length, swelling above; 
segments rhomboid-obovate, acutely dolabriform, subcrispate; stamens seated in the 
contraction of the tube; anthers cohering, acuminate, biaristate at the base; disk 5 
fleshy, sulcate lobes, crenulate on the margin. 
9. Auisorosvs PouriaNus, nob.: Echites Pohliana, Stadelm. Bot. Zeit. 1841, p. 73; A. DC. l.c. p. 470. 
In Brasilia, prov. Minas Geraés: non vidi. 
A species near the preceding, being a low shrub with a glabrous stem sé in. high, 
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