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ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 209 
naceous, subundulate on the margins, above fuscous green, opake, obsoletely velutinous, 
with very fine prominulent nerves, beneath yellowish ferruginous, very opake, pube- 
rulous, with rubescent prominulent nerves, 3-4 in. long, 11-21 in. broad, on tortuous 
pubescent petioles 2-3 lines long; inflorescence lateral at the axils, about 6 in. long, 
on a stoutish velutinous reflexed peduncle 12 in. long, bearing at its apex 2 equal race- 
mose subflexuose branches 23-31 in. long, spicate, with numerous alternate flowers 
1-2 lines apart, on pedicels 6-9 lines long, with a setaceous bractlet at their base 1-2 
lines long; sepals acuminate, recurved at the apex, 5 lines long, each with an acute 
bidentate basal scale; tube of corolla darkish red, 10 lines long, somewhat broadly 
cylindrical, much contracted in the middle; segments broadish, inequilaterally rounded, 
dolabriform, with a dextrorse convolution, 4 lines long, 4 lines broad, of a palish yellow 
colour; stamens inserted at the contraction of the tube, on a narrow ring of retrorse 
white hairs; anthers cohering in a cone, very acuminate, with 2 long, divergent, in- 
curving, aristiform basal forks; disk fleshy, split nearly to the base into 5 emarginate, 
striate lobes as long as the 2 globose ovaries; style slender; clavuncle incrassate, 
5-sulcate, with a basal peltate membrane, and terminated by 2 small obtuse stigmata ; 
follicles unknown. 
3. Temnapenta LOBBIANA, nob. : Echites hirsuta, Hook. (non Rich., nec R. € P., nec Stadelm.), Bot. 
Mag. tab. 3997 : Echites lasiocarpa (in parte), inclus. var. Lobbiana, A. DC. 1. c. p. 464. In Brasilia, 
prov. Rio de Janeiro: v. v. circa Magé, et sicc. in herb. meo (4022). 
This species was figured by me from a living plant in 1836; and with this the plant 
introduced from Rio de Janeiro at a later date, and figured by Sir Wm. Hooker, well 
accords. It is a scandent species, with terete flexuose hirsute branches, its woolly sub- 
dilated axils 4 in. apart, with 2 linear pubescent stipules on each face 1 line long; the 
opposite leaves are elliptic-oblong, cordate at the base, somewhat suddenly constricted 
into a short cuspidate acumen, entire margins subundulate and subrevolute, deepish 
green above, opake, shortly and sparsely puberulous above, with prominulent nerves, 
beneath pale yellowish, opake, pubescent, the slender prominulent nerves being patently 
pilose, 442 in. long (including the rounded basal lobes 3 lines deep, and the acumen 
5 lines long), 2-21 in. broad, on patently pubescent petioles 6-9 lines long; a single 
lateral raceme at the nodes, on a stoutish woolly deflexed peduncle 6 lines long, bearing 
upwards about 6-8 approximate flowers on yellowish woolly pedicels 3 lines long, each 
supported by a short ovate bract; sepals lanceolate, hispidly pubescent, erect, 4 lines 
long, each with an internal broad denticulate scale; corolla rather large, with a border 
of a pale yellow colour, with red striate lines in the throat; tube reddish, 16 lines long, 
narrowed at the base for 7 lines, sparsely pubescent, above funnel-shaped ; segments 
dolabriform, deeply uncinate at the left angle, dextrorsely convolute, 6 lines long and 
broad; stamens seated on a densely pilose ring at the contraction of the tube ; anthers 
cohering in a cone, biaristate at the base; disk rather deeply cleft into 5 fleshy ob- 
long emarginate lobes, a little shorter than the 2 acute pubescent ovaries style slender ; 
clavuncle large, 5-grooved, with a basal peltate membrane; follicles 2, linear, com- 
pressed, conjoined at the apex; in my specimen these are immature, sare covered 
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