ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACER, 219 
torulose, 5 in. long, 1 line thick; seeds and coma as in the preceding species; the in- 
florescence similar, bearing yellow flowers. 
3. Mitozus FUNIFORMIS, nob. : Echites funiformis, Vell. Fl. Flum. p. 109, Icon. iii. tab. 29; A. DC. 4. c. 
p. 460: Amblyanthera funiformis, Müll. Fl. Bras. xxvi. p. 144. In Brasilia, insulis Ilha grande et 
S. Catherina : non vidi. 
This species certainly does not belong to Amblyanthera ; it has been confounded by 
Müller with others collected by me, here described. In the drawing of the * Flora Flu- 
minensis’ the Paris artist, who roughly copied the fine drawings of Velloz, has made the 
branches in the plate cited far too stout, as the name funiformis clearly indicates, and 
as the branchlet on the right-hand side of the plate shows. The branches are slender, 
dilated at the axils, which are 14-2 in. apart, and bear 2 minute stipules; the leaves are 
ovate, cordate at the base, narrowing above the middle into an acute acumen, are 2-34 
in. long, 1-12 in. broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long ; the panicle is lateral, on a bare slender 
peduncle 2-4 in. long, bearing above about 10 alternate flowers on Slender pedicels 6-9 
lines long; sepals acutely ovate, 14 line long; tube of corolla 14 in. long, campanularly 
widening above the middle; segments 8 lines long, 7 lines broad; stamens inserted in 
the contraction of the tube; disk urceolate, 5-grooved, with a shortly crenate 5-lobed 
-Margin, a little shorter than the 2 oblong ovaries; style slender, 9 lines long; clavuncle 
incrassate, on a peltate membrane; follicles 2, straight, terete, parallel, nearly erect (not 
conjoined at the apex), 43-5 in. long, 2 lines broad; seeds oblong, 4 lines long, coma 
8 lines long. 
4. Mrrozus MICROPHYLLA, nob.: Echites microphylla, Stadelm. l. c. p. 35; A. DC. l c. p. 459. In Bra- 
silia, prov. Bahia et S. Paulo: non vidi. 
A species notable for its small leaves, and distinct from the preceding. It isa scan- 
dent plant, with very slender glabrous branches, having its axils furnished with 2 
dentiform stipules; the opposite leaves are ovate-oblong, rounded and cordate at the 
base, gradually acute or acuminate, green above, ferruginous beneath, with prominent 
midrib and nerves, which are parallelly divergent and barbate in their axils, the veins 
reticulated, 10-20 lines long, 8-10 lines broad, on pilosé petioles 23-3 lines long; raceme 
lateral, 2 in. long, on a slender peduncle 1 in. long, bearing about 7 subapproximate 
alternate flowers, on pedicels 3—4 lines long, supported by a small acute bract ; sepals 
acute, 12 line long, with an inner denticulate scale; tube of corolla 18 lines long, 
narrowed at its base for 7 lines, thence campanulate ; segments yellow, rhomboidally 
ovate, inequilaterally dolabriform, 9 lines long and broad, dextrorsely convolute ; stamens 
seated at the contraction of the tube; anthers cohering, membranaceous at the summit, 
shortly bilobed at the base; disk urceolate, its margin searcely 5-cleft, crenulate, as long 
as the ovaries ; follicles slender, cylindrical, smooth, pendulous, 7 in. long. 
5. Mrrozus Buancueru, nob.: Echites Blanchetii, A. DC. l.c. p. 448; Müll. /. c. p. 157. In Brasilia 
(Blanchet 3223 4), Bahia: non vidi. 
A climbing species with stout branches ; branchlets slender, subtetragonous, flexuose, 
cinereo-fuscous; axils ciliolate ; leaves elliptic, obtuse at both ends, E with 
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