236 A ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACEX. 
ANECHITES, Griseb. 
This was proposed as a subtribe of the genus Echites by Grisebach in 1864, for a 
group of plants, chiefly natives of the Antilles, much resembling Mesechites in habit, 
differing chiefly in having narrow linear acuminate anthers, with two long parallel 
needle-like forks at their base, and in the lobes of the disk united at their base into a 
cup. Grisebach describes the segments of the corolla as sinistrorse ; but I have found 
them to be dextrorsely convolute. 
Anzcuites, Griseb. (char. reformato). Sepala 5, lanceolata, intus squamulis totidem obtusis sæpius 
denticulatis munita. Corolla hypocrateriformis ; tubus anguste cylindricus; segmenta 5, oblonga, 
insequilatera, rotata, dextrorsum convoluta. Stamina medio tubi inserta, inclusa ; filamenta tenuia. 
Anthere anguste lineares, apice cuspidatz, imo furcis 2 brevibus armate. Discus suburceolatus, 
usque ad medium vel ultra in lobos 5 fissus ; ovaria 2, libera, longiora. Stylus filiformis; clavuncula 
incrassata. Folliculi 2, lineari-teretes, paralleli; semina comosa. 
Plante Antillane vel Brasilienses, humiles, volubiles aut scandenies ; folia opposita ovata aut 
oblonga, interdum cordata, petiolata; racemi axillares, simplices, pedunculati; flores pauci, alterni, 
pedicellati. 
1. ANECHITES ADGLUTINATA, nob.: Echites adglutinata, Jacq. (non Burm.) Amer. p. 31,tab.23; A. DC. 
l.c. p. 448: Echites circinalis, Griseb. (non Sw.) Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p.414. In Antillis: v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit. S. Domingo (Swartz) ; S. Lucia (sine nom.). 
A climbing plant, with slender glabrous branches; leaves broadly ovate, rounded at 
the base, round and emarginate at the summit with a short mucronate point, rarely 
subobtuse, pallidly membranaceous, glabrous, pale green above, yellowish opake beneath, 
with reddish midrib and nerves scarcely prominulent, 21-33 (sometimes 4) in. long, 
14-24 in. broad, on petioles 3-4 lines long; racemes axillary, 14 in. long including the 
bare peduncle (9 lines long), which supports about 5 alternate flowers on pedicels 1 line 
long; sepals acute, 4 line long ; tube of corolla cylindrical, a little swollen in the middle, 
4 lines long; segments oblong-lanceolate, 3 lines long; stamens inserted above the 
middle of the tube ; anthers cuspidate, included, bidentate at the base ; disk shorter than 
the 2 free ovaries; follicles 2, terete, agglutinated at the apex. 
2. ANECHITES CIRCINALIS, nob.: Echites circinalis, Sw. Flor. Ind. Occid. i. p. 533; ejusd. Prodr. p. 52: 
A. DC. l. c. p. 466; Griseb. l. ê. p. 414: Echites adglutinata, Griseb. (non Sw.), 1. c. p. 414: 
Hemadictyon circinalis, Don, Dict. iv. p. 83. In Hispaniola et Jamaica: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 
Jamaica (Shakespear). 
A slender scandent plant, with glabrous branches and distant axils; leaves ovate- 
oblong, obtusely rounded at the base, gradually acute, yellowish green above, sulcate along 
the reddish midrib, nerves reddish, immersed, margins very revolute, scabridulous above, 
pale yellow beneath, opake and glabrous, with prominent reddish midrib, nerves, and 
veins, 12-2 in. long, 10 lines broad, on petioles 3 lines long; raceme lateral, glabrous, 
ona bare peduncle 2-3 in. long, erect, bearing many white flowers on alternate or, often, 
geminate pedicels 1 line long, with small acute bracteoles ; sepals lanceolate, erect, 
