196 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEZX. 
8. ECHITES MEMBRANACEA, A. DC. l.c. p. 457. In Peruvia (Pavon): non vidi. 
A plant with straight, elongated, tomentous branches ; leaves oval, cordate, acutely 
mucronate, very membranaceous, puberulous above, with several prominent glands along 
the midrib, hirsutulous beneath, especially on the nerves and veins, 3 in. long, 14 in. 
broad, on petioles 5 lines long; raceme lateral, tomentous, 5 in. long, bearing many 
alternate flowers on pedicels 3 lines long; sepals ovate, subulate, 4 lines long, gibbous 
at the base, with an inner acute scale; tube of corolla 9 lines long, hirsute; segments 
elabrous, obovate-oblong; disk quinquefid, with obtuse lobes, somewhat shorter than 
the ovaries. 
A species near Z. hirtiflora. 
9. ECHITES CHLORANTHA, Schl. in Linn. xxvi. p. 663. In Venezuela, prope Maiquetia : v. s. pl. fructif. 
in herb. meo, sine loco, forsan Caraccas (Cockburn). 
Schlectendahl describes this species as a shrub, 10 feet high, with verrucose terete 
branches and glabrous branchlets, subhirsute when young; leaves broadly ovate, obtuse 
at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, glabrous, with subrevolute margins, nearly 
concolorous, sulcate on the midrib, the base of which is furnished with 2 erect, subulate, 
fleshy glands, midrib and nerves prominent beneath, 3-4 in. long, 13-21 in. broad, on 
sulcate petioles 6-9 lines long; panicle lateral, on a thick peduncle 1-3 lines long, 
divided into 2 short branches bearing several flowers on glabrous, spirally twisted pedi- 
cels 4 lines long; sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate, imbricate, 3 lines long, with an inner 
basal emarginated or lacinulate scale; tube of corolla rufescent, cylindrical, 8 lines 
long, slightly swollen below the middle more constricted portion, narrowly campanulate 
above, with a border of shortish segments of a greenish hue, acutely and horizontally 
extended or subreflected ; stamens inserted in the pilose contraction of the tube; disk 
of 5 obtuse, fleshy lobes, as long as the ovaries; follicles 2, terete, 8 in. long, 2 lines thick, 
glabrous ; seeds 6 lines long, acute at both ends, puberulous, with a coma of reddish soft 
hairs 10 lines long. 
In the fructiferous plant the branches are stout, with opposite, spreading, flexuose 
branchlets 1 line thick, tapering upwards, rugously striolate and lenticellate, with axils 
3 in. apart, charged with several glandular stipules ; the leaves are of the same size and 
shape as those of Schlectendahl’s plant, agreeing in all respects, except that the petioles 
do not exceed a length of 6 lines; the peduncle is 3 lines long, bifurcate, each division 
bearing 2 horizontally divergent terete follicles, striolate, densely lenticellate, 74 in. long, 
3 lines thick, tapering to an obtuse apex 2 lines broad, slightly arcuate ; seeds dorsally 
striolate, flat on the ventral face, with a longitudinal raphe 6 lines long, and an apical 
rufescent coma 10 lines long. 
It is a species near Echites acuminata, R. & P. 
10. Ecnrres GLANDULOSA, R. & P. Fl. Per. ii. p. 19, tab. 185: Hemadictyon glandulosum, A. DC. l. c. 
p. 427 : Prestonia Peruviana, Spr. Syst. i. p. 637. In Peruvia ad Muiias: non vidi. 
A climbing plant, with tomentous branchlets; axils 3-5 in. apart, having at the 
nodes several subulate fleshy glands in the place of interpetiolar stipules; leaves ovate, 
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