186 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEZ. 
he himself indicated, and is probably that of an undescribed Schubertia, the plants of 
which much resemble those of Amblyanthera. This species is confounded by Müller 
with his 4. Fluminensis; but the two species are very distinct. This has scandent, flexuous, 
hirsutulous branches, the axils being 34-44 in. apart; leaves opposite, oblong, a little 
narrower towards the base, where they are auriculately cordate and eglandulose, rather 
suddenly acuminate at the summit, fuscous green above, opake, hirsutely pubescent, 
with about 11 pairs of patently divaricate fine immersed nerves, yellowish brown and 
opake, beneath more densely hirto-pubescent (with simple hairs), more especially on the 
scarcely prominulent midrib and nerves, 3-4 in. long (including the basal lobes 2 lines 
deep), 12-13 in. broad, on rather slender patent pubescent petioles 6 lines long; raceme 
lateral at the nodes, 3 in. long, hirsutulous, on a somewhat patent peduncle bare at the 
base for 1 inch, bearing above about 6 alternate flowers on stoutish tomentous pedicels 
3 lines long, each supported by an oblong elliptic stipate bract acuminate at the 
summit, hirsutulous, 9 lines long, 4 lines broad; sepals narrowly subulate, lanceolate, 
membranaceous, smooth inside, tomentous, with white hairs outside, 3 lines long, 1 line 
broad at the base, ciliate on the margins, with an inner multilacinulate scale; corolla 
scarlet, niveo-lanate in the bud; tube afterwards sparsely pubescent, yellowish within, 
cylindrical, campanulate above the middle, 9-10 lines long; segments dolabriform, 
acute at one angle, plicately crenate along the margin, reddish yellow, subglabrous, 
5 lines long and broad; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube, upon 5 densely 
lanate niveous lines; anthers 1 line long, with a scarlet connective pointed at the summit, 
obtusely emarginate or shortly bilobed at the base, cohering in a cone round the cla- 
vuncle; disk half cleft into 5 emarginate lobes, shorter than the 2 pointed pubescent 
ovaries ; follicles torulously terete, very arcuate and conjoined at the apex, hirsute, 
43 in. long, 2 lines broad; seeds many, pilose, oblong, compressed, 3 lines long, crowned 
by an erect reddish coma 9 lines long. 
2. AMBLYANTHERA FLUMINENSIS, Müll. /. c. p. 148, tab. 45 (excl. sen). In prov. Rio de Janeiro ad 
Oliveira, in Serra de Macacú et in mont. Organensibus : non vidi. 
A more lax species than the preceding, and confounded with it. It has fuscous flexuous 
branches clothed with yellowish hispid hairs, the axils being 6-61 in. apart; leaves 
elliptic-oblong, gradually narrower below the middle, auriculately cordate at the base, 
truncate and mucronate at the apex, or with a short, rather blunt acumen, submem- 
branaceous, above green, opake, subpilose on both sides, ciliate on the margins, with 
15 pairs of subascending nerves, beneath reddish, opake, patently hispidulous along the 
prominulent midrib and nerves, 31—6 in. long, 12-23 in. broad, on hirsute petioles 3-44 
lines long; a lateral raceme at the nodes, densely pubescent, 4 in. long, on a thickish 
peduncle bare below for 2 in., bearing upwards 6 or 7 alternate flowers about 3 lines 
apart, on pedicels 3 lines long, supported by as many foliaceous bracts, rhomboidally ovate, 
subacute at the base, narrowly acuminate, pubescent, 9 lines long, 4 lines broad ; sepals 
subulately lanceolate, externally pilose, ciliate on the margins, 5 lines long, 1 line broad 
at the base, each with an internal semicircular denticulate scale; a handsome corolla, 
niveo-pilose outside ; tube cylindrical below the middle, campanular above, 13 lines long; 
