198 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEZX. 
bracteolate pedicels 7-10 lines long; sepals linear-oblong, acute, imbricate, furnished 
within at their base with a dense row of small lanceolate scales ; large handsome yellow 
corolla; tube 2 in. long, cylindrical for half its length, funnel-shaped above, and 6 lines 
wide in the mouth; segments oblong, horizontally expanded and curvingly pointed, 
dextrorsely convolute ; stamens fixed in the middle of the tube; disk of 5 free lobes, 
much shorter than the 2 acutely oblong ovaries; style filiform; clavuncle incrassate, 
with 2 short subulate stigmata. 
13. Ecurres suBsAGITTATA, R. € P. (non Griseb.) l. c. p. 19; A. D.C. l.c. p. 475. In Peruvia ad Cu- 
chero: non vidi. 
A climbing, glabrous species, with very long, granulose, reddish, branching stem; 
branches filiform, with many close stipuloid glands about the axils; opposite leaves 
oblong, subsagittate at the base, acuminate, with ciliated margins, glanduliferous near 
the sinus below, and on short pubescent petioles; raceme short, lateral, few-flowered ; 
pedicels with a small deciduous bracteole at the base; sepals acute. 
A species near the preceding. The plant under this name, from Trinidad, with toru- 
lose follicles, vaguely considered by Grisebach (Fl. Br. W. Ind. p. 413) to be the same 
as Z. hirsuta, H. B. K., is the Zchites microcalyx, A. DC. 
l4. EcurrEs nrrsuta, R. € P. l.c. p. 19, tab. 136: Echites Pavonii, A. D.C. l. c. p. 463: Prestonia 
hirsuta, Spr. Syst. iv. 637, In Peruvia ad S. Antonio de playa grande, Chicoplaya: non 
vidi. 
A climbing species with extremely slender, twisting, hirsute branches, with several 
slender interpetiolar glands; leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, shortly cordate at their 
base, and furnished with 1 or 2 oblong acute glands at the sinus, densely villous below, 
4-43 in. long, 2-24 in. broad, on villous petioles 5 lines long; raceme lateral, 5-6 in. 
long, with many alternate yellow flowers, on pedicels 5 lines long, with lanceolate bracts 
4 lines long; sepals acute, 3 lines long; tube of corolla 14 in. long, contracted in the 
middle ; segments obliquely oblong, 1 in. long, expanded ; stamens shortish, seated in 
the middle of the tube; anthers cohering ; disk of 5 lobes, half as long as the 2 ovaries; 
follicles 2, subacutely terete, subadhering at the apex, 4-5 in. long, 1} line thick; 
seeds with an apical coma. 
This must not be confounded with the Zchites hirsuta of Richard, or that of Velloz. 
15. Ecurres AcuTILOBA, A. DC. l. c. p. 451. In Peruvia: non vidi. 
A climbing plant, with slender glabrous branchlets; leaves oblong, cordate, acuminate, 
membranaceous, subglabrous, with 2-3 glands at their base, 2-24 in. long, 11-15 lines 
broad, on puberulous petioles 5-7 lines long; a simple lateral raceme, as long as the 
leaves, glabrous, with alternate pedicels, supported by much shorter linear bractlets; 
sepals linear-lanceolate, ciliate at their base, 3} lines long; tube of corolla 7 lines long, 
cylindrical, somewhat contracted in the middle ; segments narrowly oblong, one third the 
length of the tube ; stamens seated on a pilose ring in the contraction of the tube; disk 
of 5 linear lobes, longer than the ovaries. 
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