190 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 
a retrorsely pilose ring; disk cup-shaped, half-cleft into 5 lobes, nearly as long as the 
glabrous oblong-ovoid ovaries. 
10. AMBLYANTRERA FENDLERI, Müll. /. c. p. 417. In Venezuela, prope Tovar (Fendler 1032) : non vidi. 
A species, from its densely bracteate brush-like raceme, evidently belonging to this 
genus, with which it agrees in its other characters. It has griseo-pubescent branches, 
darkish branchlets 1-13 line thick; leaves narrow-lanceolate, cordate at the base, gra- 
dually acuminate, rigidly membranaceous, palish green above, glabrous, shining, witb 
9-12 pairs of diverging straight nerves arcuately conjoined, veinless, cano-pubescent 
beneath, 23-3} in. long, 7-94 lines broad, on petioles 13-3 lines long; racemes axillary, 
a little longer than the leaves, on a short peduncle bearing many dense flowers on alter- 
nate pedicels, thicker above, 3 lines long, the lower ones caducous, supported by linear- 
lanceolate acuminate bracts 5 lines long; sepals ovate-acuminate, puberulous, each 
with an inner oblong lacinulate scale; corolla in the whole 12 in. long; tube narrowly 
cylindrical for two thirds its length, campanulate above, pilose; segments shorter, 
broadly ovate; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube; disk 5-cleft, as long as 
the smooth ovoid ovaries. 
ll. AmBLYANTHERA SPRUCEANA, Müll. Fl. Br. xxvi. p. 143: Echites Javitensis, Benth. (non Kunth) MSS. 
Prope Panuré, Rio Uahupes (Spruce 2863): non vidi. 
It is an erect plant, with glabrous, rigid, angular branches, and subtomentellous 
branchlets ; leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse at the base, shortly acuminate, subcoriaceous, 
fuscous green above, glabrous or scabridly hirtellous, with about 12 pairs of divergent 
dark-red nerves and reticulated veins, sparsely subhirtellous beneath, 23-34 in. long, 1-14 
in. broad, on slender petioles 5-7 lines long; raceme subterminal, in young state 24 in. 
long, puberulous, with a simple, straight, stout peduncle 11-13 line thick, bearing many 
densely spicate flowers, which are almost sessile, and supported by as many elongated, 
carinately navicular bracts 9) lines long, with a long, incurved acumen; sepals 14 line 
long, broadly ovate, obtuse, each with an inner, broad, unequally denticulate scale; 
corolla (yet in bud) 103 lines long, tomentellous; tube cylindrically contracted below 
the middle, a little broader above; segments insequilateral; disk 5-cleft, nearly as long 
as the ovaries. 
Species assigned to Amblyanthera by Wiiller, here excluded and referred to their 
proper places. 
(Indications : B.=Flor. Bras. fasc. xxvi.; L.=Linnea, vol. XXX.) 
. acutiloba, L. 447 
. andina, L. 425 
. Andrieuxii, L. 422 
. angustifolia, L. 447 
. antennacea, L. 448 . 
. Benthami, L. 451 
A. Bogotensis, L. 458 . 
. = Echites acutiloba. 
Echites andina. 
Echites Andrieuxii. 
Mesechites linearifolia. 
Laseguea antennacea. 
Homaladenia angustifolia. 
Anartia Bogotensis. 
Bea RR 
