ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACER. 203 
27. ECHITES Venactensts, Seem. Bot. Her. p. 168. In Veraguas, Volcan Chiriqui (Seemann) : 
non vidi. 
A climbing species, resembling E lava, with pubescent branchlets, afterwards glabres- 
cent; leaves ovate-oblong, cordate, acuminate, glabrous above, with many glands at the 
base, glabrous beneath, but villous in the axils of the nerves, 31-4 in, long, 1-14 in. 
broad, on petioles 1 in. long; raceme lateral, bearing 5-8 flowers on pedicels supported 
by acutely ovate bracteoles; sepals acutely ovate; corolla 2} in. long; tube yellow, con- 
stricted below the middle, somewhat funnel-shaped; segments dark purple, obliquely 
obovate, obtuse; stamens inserted on a pilose ring at the constriction of the tube; fila- 
ments pilose; anthers glabrous. 
28. Fonge SuRINAMENSIS, Mig. Stirp. Surin, Select. p. 155; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 42. In Surinam: 
non vidi. 
A plant referable to this group on account of its bidentate glandular stipules and the 
presence of bicuspidate glands at the base of the leaves; its branches are fuscous, 
glabrous, and smooth ; its branchlets subpuberulous, with bidentate stipules around the 
nodes; the leaves are elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, shortly acute, rounded at the base, 
glabrous above, with bicuspidate glands at the base of the midrib, paler beneath, with 
about 8 pairs of subobsolete nerves; raceme lateral; peduncle bifid, with smooth branch- 
lets and smooth, ovate, rounded, subciliolate bracteoles; sepals ovate, subciliate; tube 
of corolla cylindrical, staminigerous above the middle, a little bell-shaped in the mouth, 
with a border of 5 shortish segments. 
29. Ecmrres microcatyx, A. DC. J. c. p. 456; Schlecht. Linn, xxvi. p. 662: Echites subsagittata, Griseb. 
(non R. & P.) Z. c. p. 413: Amblyanthera microcalyz, var. trichantha, Müll. Linn. xxx. 448. In Vene- 
zuela prope Caracas: non vidi. 
A climbing plant, 8 feet high, with very slender puberulous branches ; leaves oblong- 
ovate, cordate, acutely acuminate, membranaceous, subglabrous above, the midrib charged 
with many dark fleshy glands, pilose beneath, 13-23 in. long, 7-10 lines broad, on slender 
petioles 2 lines long ; peduncle of the raceme pubescent, shorter than the leaves, bearing 
above 4-6 approximate flowers, on pedicels 8 times as long as the calyx; sepals linear- 
lanceolate, ciliate on the margins, scarcely 2 lines long, gibbous at the base, with an acutely 
ovate inner scale; corolla 11 in. long, pubescent, with white patent hairs ; tube cylindrical, 
9-10 lines long, broader above the middle; segments half as long as the tube; stamens 
seated near the contraction of the tube, on a pilose ring of white retrorse hairs; anthers 
23 lines long, shortly 2-lobed or emarginate at the base, acuminate above, cohering. 
The Echites subsagittata, Griseb. (non R. & P.), from Trinidad, belongs here. The 
floras of the latter island and the opposite coast of Venezuela are largely identical. 
30. Ecmrres BRACHYLOBA, nob. : Amblyanthera brachyloba, Müll. Linn. l. c. p. 423. In Peruvia, Parana- 
hunanco (Mathews 820) : non vidi. 
A plant evidently belonging to this genus, on account of the glands on its leaves. It 
has very slender puberulous branchlets; leaves ovate, cordate at the base, obtuse at the 
summit, membranaceous, sparsely and minutely puberulous above, the midrib charged 
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