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curving petioles 4 in. long; racemes lateral, simple, pubescent, 2 in. long; sepals pube- 
rulous, subulate, acuminate ; corolla 2 in. long, glabrous, yellow, variegated with white 
. and red; tube cylindrical, swollen above the base, campanulate near the mouth, marked 
inside with several white, retrorsely sericeous lines; segments acuminately uncinate at 
the angle; stamens inserted above the base of the tube; filaments compressed, thickened 
and subpilose ; anthers subsagittate at the base, erect, and cohering ; disk urceolate, of 
5 fleshy subconnate lobes, enclosing 2 oval ovaries; style as long as the filaments ; 
clavuncle subglobose, terminated by 2 stigmata; follicles 2, terete, torulose, 5 in. long, 
3 lines broad, conjoined at the curving summits. 
The plant described by Grisebach under the same name, probably belongs to some 
other species. 
14. Mirozus CvvanENsis, nob.: Echites Cuyabensis, A. DC. l. c. p. 462: Amblyanthera Cuiabensis, Müll. 
l. c. p. 145. In Cuyaba: non vidi. 
A species with slender, virgate, hirtellous branches, with remote axils; leaves elliptic, 
obtuse and subcordate at the base, very acuminate, rigidly membranaceous, subglabrous, 
with parallel divergent nerves, 5 in. long, 11-2 in. broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long; 
raceme as long as the leaves, scabro-hirtellous, on a thick angular peduncle, bearing 
many flowers on pedicels 11-2 lines long, supported by ovate-subulate bracteoles 1-2 - 
lines long; sepals ovate-acuminate, subglabrous, 2 lines long, each with an inner simple 
or bifid scale; corolla glabrous; tube cylindrical below the middle, funnel-shaped above, 
13 in. long; segments 1 in. long; disk urceolate, of 5 fleshy subconnate lobes, half as 
long as the 2 puberulous ovaries; follicles 2, subtorulose, glabrous, 7-9 in. long, 14 line 
thiek; seeds with a deep-yellow coma. 
This is said by Müller to be near his Z. versicolor, var. glabrata. 
15. Mrrozvs CoNcINNUS, nob. : ramulis tenuissimis, pallidis, striolatis ; foliis patentibus, ovato-oblongis, 
imo rotundato-obtusis, apice acutis, tenuiter chartaceis, marginibus revolutis, supra viridibus, im- 
presse corrugulosis, nervis arcuatis immersis, subtus flavescenti-opacis, costa, nervis venisque 
transversim reticulatis vix prominulis; petiolis tenuibus, quam limbus 20plo brevioribus: racemis 
axillaribus, simplicibus, quam folium triplo brevioribus, glabris, plurifloris; pedicellis tenuissimis ; 
sepalis linearibus, submembranaceis, singulis squamula lata intus munitis ; corolle tubo cylindrico ; 
segmentis deltoideis, quam tubus triplo brevioribus; staminibus medio tubi insertis; antheris acu- 
minatis, basi parallele furcatis; stylo tenui; clavuncula crasse cylindrica; stigmatibus 2, obtusis, 
terminalibus. In Brasilia, prov. Alagoas: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Penédo, Rio S. Francisco 
(Gardner 1353). 
A very slender climbing plant, with axils 3 in. apart; leaves 23-27 in. long, £-1 in. 
broad, on petioles 14 line long; pedicels 3 lines long; sepals 1 line long; tube of corolla 
6 lines long; segments 3 lines long and broad; disk urceolate, of 5 fleshy subconnate 
lobes. 
16. Mrrozus arevires, nob. : Echites brevipes, Benth. in Pl. Hartw. p. 216: Mesechites brevipes, Mill. 
in Linn. xxx. p. 454. In Nova Granada: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Rio Mesa, prov. Bogota (Hart- 
wegg 1195). 
A climbing species with very slender terete branches; leaves subpatent, ovate-oblong, 
