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length, 3 lines long; branchlets alternate, bearing 2 flowers each on pedicels 4 lines long ; 
sepals acuminate, 14 line long; tube of corolla 10 lines long, slender below, widening a 
little above the middle; segments dolabriform, acute on one side, rounded on the other, 
4 lines long, dextrorsely convolute; stamens inserted on a pilose ring in the middle 
of the tube; filaments retrorsely pilose; anthers emarginate at the base, acuminate, 
cohering ; disk of 5 obtuse linear fleshy lobes. 
17. MESECHITES JASMINIFLORA, nob. : Echites jasminiflora, Mart. & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 
p. 357; Walp. Rep. vi. p. 476. In Mexico: non vidi. 
A. twining species, with slender puberulous branches; leaves lanceolate, cordate, 
acuminate, subglabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, on short villous petioles ; 
racemes axillary, pedunculate, longer than the leaves, bearing yellow flowers; sepals 
small; corolla salver-shaped, 1 in. long; stamens included ; follicles very long, torulose. 
A species near M. torosa, with somewhat broader leaves and larger flowers. 
18. Musrcuires GurANENsis, nob.: Echites Guianensis, A. DC. l. c. p. 458: Amblyanthera Guianensis, 
Müll. in Linn. xxx. p. 448. In Cayenne: non vidi. 
A climbing plant with elongated terete scabrid branchlets; leaves ovate or lanceo- 
late, cordate, acuminate, membranaceous, glabrous, having several glands above and 
near the petiole, reddish nerves and veins, 3-4 in. long, 10-18 lines broad, on petioles 
2-3 lines long; raceme lateral, glabrous, nearly as long as the leaves, bearing many 
spicate flowers on pedicels 13 line long, supported by lanceolate bracts 3 lines long; 
sepals ovate, subulate, 2 lines long, with an inner 4-dentate scale; tube of corolla 
14 lines long, a little broader below the middle, swelling above; segments half as 
long as the tube; stamens inserted on a hirsute band at the constriction of the tube ; 
disk of 5 obtuse lobes; follicles torulose, glabrous, patently recurved, 5 in. long, 3 lines 
broad. 
19. Mesrcuures Anprigvxu, nob.: Amblyanthera Andrieuxii, Müll. l. c. p. 422: In Mexico, prope 
Oaxaca (Andrieux 249) : non vidi. 
A somewhat scandent species, with terete, glabrous, reddish, subverrucose branches 
1 line thick, with branchlets very scaly at the base, copiously leafy above; leaves 
narrowly obovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, rigidly membranaceous, 
fuscous, hirto-puberulous above, with about 6 pairs of divergent nerves, obsoletely 
veined, yellowish beneath, softly pubescent, 93-13 lines long, 31-7 lines broad, on 
petioles 11-21 lines long; racemes axillary, a little longer than the leaves, subdeflexed, 
subglabrous, bearing many small flowers, the 2 lower ones opposite, the others alternate, 
on rigid pedicels 1-12 line long, supported by puberulous lanceolate bracteoles of the 
same length; sepals ovate-lanceolate, puberulous outside, with membranaceous margins, 
3 lines long, with 4-8 inner subulate scales; corolla in the whole 5-7 lines long; its 
cylindrical tube broader at the base, swelling above to a breadth of 2 lines; segments 
rhomboidally obovate; disk of 5 free ovate obtuse lobes, as long as the glabrous ovoid 
ovaries. 
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