234 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 
inequilateral, subacute, 3 lines long, 2 lines broad ; stamens seated on a pilose ring in 
the middle of the tube; anthers membranaceously apiculate, shortly bilobed at the 
base; disk of 5 obtusely oblong fleshy lobes. 
14. MESECHITES HIRTELLA, nob.: Echites hirtella, H. B. K. iii. p. 213 (non Benth.) ; A. DC. 7. c. p. 465: 
In Nova Granada, prope Mariquita : non vidi. 
A climbing species, with extremely slender striate shaggy branchlets; leaves oblong, 
narrowed and cordate at the base, mucronate and acute at the apex, entire, submem- 
branaceous, hirsute on both sides, reticulately veined, with a minute gland at the bottom 
of the midrib, 2-22 in. long, 2-1 in. broad, on reddish pilose channelled petioles 2 lines 
long; raceme lateral, hirtellous, near 2 in. long, on a peduncle 6 lines long, bearing 
upwards many flowers on pedicels with much shorter lanceolate bracteoles, pilose ; sepals 
ovate, acuminate, imbricate, hirtellous; corolla salver-shaped, yellow, pilose outside ; its 
tube 9-10 lines long, somewhat contracted in the middle, swelling above, with five small 
red spots in the mouth; segments obliquely inequilateral, obovate, crispate, rotate, half 
as long as the tube; stamens seated in the constriction of the tube; anthers acuminate, 
cohering; follicles very slender, subtorulose, rostrate at the apex, glabrous, 5-6 in. long; 
seeds fusiform, with an apical coma. 
15. Mesecuires Oaxacana, nob.: Echites Oaxacana, A. DC. l. c. p. 451; Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 350, 
sub n° 492: Amblyanthera Oaxacana, Müll. in Linn. xxx. p. 447. In Mexico, prov. Oaxaca: non 
vidi. 
A climbing plant, with slender branchlets; leaves ovate, subcordate, acuminate, 
membranaceous, with many approximate nerves, reticulated, with 2 small glands at 
their base, 2-23 in. long, 9-12 lines broad, on slender petioles 4 lines long; racemes 
axillary and terminal, as long as the leaves, on a slender peduncle bearing few flowers 
on pedicels a little longer than the calyx; sepals lanceolate; tube of corolla 5 times 
as long as the sepals, cylindrical, a little swollen above ; segments shorter than the 
tube; stamens seated above the middle of the tube; disk of 5 acute lobes, longer than 
the ovaries ; follicles 2, 5 in. long, erect, linear, somewhat torulose. 
This plant certainly does not belong to Amblyanthera, and does not harmonize with 
the Echites hirtella, Benth. 
16. MESECHITES HIRTELLULA, nob. : Echites hirtella, Benth. (non H. B. K.) Pl. Hartw. p. 67. In Mexico: 
v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Puente de Gia (Hartweg 492). 
A species near M. torulosa, and very different from Echites hirtella, H. B. K., which is 
said by Bentham to be identical with £chites Oaxacana, A. DC. It is a twining plant, 
with filiform glabrous branches, having axils 1-13 in. apart; leaves lanceolate-oblong, 
obtuse and emarginately cordate at the base, gradually narrowing from the middle into 
a very long acute acumen, membranaceous, pale green above, opake, shortly puberulous, 
and scabridulous to the touch, with slender midrib and immersed nerves, paler, with a 
yellowish hue, and opake beneath, obsoletely puberulous, with slightly prominent 
reddish midrib and nerves and very reticulate veins, 2} in. long, 9 lines broad, on 
petioles 3 lines long; raceme lateral, 1 in. long, on a slender peduncle bare for half its 
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