ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 227 
a thickish ligneous pericarp, fusiformly oblong, broadish, 5 in. long, 13 in. broad in the 
middle; seeds many (as in the gen. char.), 84 lines long, surmounted by a white, widely 
spreading, recurving coma 18 lines long. 
A drawing of this species, in flower and in fruit, is shown in Plate XXXII. 
2. SECONDATIA FLORIBUNDA, A. DC. p. 446; Müll. Z. c. p. 109. In Brasilia, prov. Bahia, ad Jacobina 
(Blanchet 3370) : non vidi. 
A scandent glabrous species, with slender terete branches; leaves elliptic, very obtuse 
at the base, with a lanceolately euspidate apex; nerves pellucid, with finely reticulated 
veins, 23 in. long, 15-17 lines broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long; panicles spreading, tri- 
chotomously divided, a little longer than the leaves, with branches 8-9 lines long, bearing 
many flowers on very slender pedicels 4-5 lines long, supported by lanceolate bracts 
ilinelong; sepals a little larger than the braets, lanceolate; tube of corolla glabrous, 
3 lines long; segments oblong, a little longer than it; disk of 5 dentate lobes, a little 
shorter than the ovaries. 
3. Szconpatia FOLIOSA, A. DC. 7. c. p. 446; Müll. J. c. p. 109, tab. 32. fig. 1. In Brasilia, prov. Bahia, 
ad Jacobina (Blanchet 3635) et prov. Ceará: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Oeiras (Gardner 1762). 
A glabrous species, differing from the two preceding in its smaller, more approxi- 
mate leaves acute at both extremities, with many transversely reticulated veins, 14-13 
in. long, 7-8 lines broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long; terminal panicles more compact, 
much shorter than the leaves, with branches 3-4 lines long, bearing many flowers on 
slender pedicels 2-3 lines long ; sepals acute, 4 line long; tube of corolla 23 lines long; 
segments oblique-oblong, rotate, 23 lines long. 
4. SECONDATIA FERRUGINEA, nob.: Echites ferruginea, Rich. Fl. Cub. xi. p. 92; Walp. Ann. v. p. 494. 
In Cuba, Guanabacoa (Sagra) : non vidi. 
A species with a weak branching stem, and slender, red, hirtous branchlets ; leaves 
small, obtusely elliptie or obovate, obtuse at the base, glabrous above, subferruginously 
opake beneath, on short petioles; inflorescence terminal, bearing 3 or many flowers 
upon rather long pedicels, glabrous; sepals ovate-acuminate; corolla small, yellow, 
funnel-shaped, with a narrow tube nearly three times as long as the sepals; follicles 2, 
erect, parallel, acute, 3-4 in. long, 1 in. broad. 
5. Seconpatia ScmprMrANA, Müll. in Linn. xxx. p. 416. In Nova Granada ad Ocanna (Schlim 510) : 
non vidi. 
A species with glabrous, terete, obscurely reddish, lenticellate branchlets, with axils 
4-5 in. apart; leaves elliptic, acute at the base, cuspidately acuminate, nerves with 
transverse veins much reticulated, 2-23 in. long, 93-163 lines broad, on petioles 5-6 lines 
long; a spreading terminal panicle 13 in. long, much divided, puberulous, many-flowered ; 
flowers on rigid pedicels 3 lines long; sepals 1j line long; tube of corolla glabrous, 
hispid within, 23 lines long; segments obliquely ovoid, glabrous; anthers dorsally 
pubescent; disk 5-lobed, as long as the ovaries. 
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