ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACER. 251 
deep), 2? in. broad, on petioles 1 in. long; raceme 34 in. long; peduncle bare at the base 
for 14 in. ; bracts 6 lines long, 1 line broad; pedicels 14 line long; sepals 4 lines long ; 
corolla in bud 6 lines long. 
7. LaseGUEA ANTENNACEA, nob.: Echites antennacea, A. DC. l. c. p. 456. In Peruvia (Pavon) : non 
vidi. 
A species with scabridly pubescent terete branches; leaves oblong, subcordate, acu- 
minate, scabrid above, with several glands at the base of the limb, velutinous beneath, 
4 in. long, 13 in. broad, on petioles 3 lines long; raceme lateral, arcuate, 2-3 times 
as long as the leaves, scabridly puberulous, bearing many almost sessile flowers, partly 
concealed by as many bracts, which are oblong, mucronate, membranaceous, reddish, 
6-8 lines long, 2-3 lines broad ; sepals acuminately ovate, 2 lines long, with an inner 
dentate scale; corolla scabridulous, red ; tube 1 in. long, a little narrowed in the middle; 
segments shorter than the tube; stamens inserted in the constriction of the tube; disk 
urceolate, thick, a little shorter than the ovaries; follicles arcuate, torulose, converging 
at the apex, 6 in. long; seeds 4 lines long, with a rather long reddish coma. 
This species is placed in Laseguea on account of its general character, its inflores- 
cence, and more especially the form of its disk; it is evidently near the preceding 
species. 
8. LaszcvEA BICOLOR, nob.: Echites bicolor, Mig. Stirp. Surin. Sel. p. 154; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 42. In 
Surinam : non vidi. 
A plant possessing all the characters of Laseguea : its branches are scabrescent ; the 
leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, roundish and shortly cordate at the base, shortly acuminate, 
subscabrid above, pilose on the midrib above with hairs globular at their base, beneath 
subsericeously pubescent, on very short petioles; racemes axillary, cylindrical, densely 
spicate, as long as the leaves, puberulous, furnished with many imbricating lanceolate 
bracts as long as the pedicel and calyx; pedicels short ; sepals linear, subequal, pube- 
rulous, each with an inner obtuse or denticulate scale; tube of corolla slender, pube- 
rulous, somewhat dilated at the base; segments acutely ovate, shorter than the tube. 
9. LASEGUEA LATIUSCULA, nob. : suberecta, ramis rigide teretibus, cum axillis remotis: foliis oppositis, 
oblongis vel ovatis, imo oblique rotundatis, apice late ellipticis, et in acumen subbreve cuspidatum 
subito constrictis, submembranaceis, margine ciliatis, supra profunde viridibus, ad aime nervosque 
puberulis, subtus rufescentibus, presertim ad costam et nervos subhispidulis ; petiolis brevibus, 
canaliculatis, puberulis: racemo laterali, quam folium subbreviore, erecto, imo pedunculato, mox 
aspergilliformi, bracteis crebre imbricatis, adpresse erecti, lineari-lanceolatis, cuspidatis, quam pedi- 
cellus calyxque triplo longioribus, glabris, rubris, marginibus submembranaceis ; pedicellis SG 
simis; sepalis enspidato-lanceolatis, subinzequalibus, glabris, intus squamula leta apice 3-5-dentic ata 
munitis; corolla tubulosa, carnosula, rubidula ; tubo cylindrico, medio vix coarctato ; er 
membranaceis, ovalibus, subacutis, insequilateris, quam tubus triplo brevioribus, dextrorsum conv 0- 
lutis: staminibus ad medium tubi annulo retrorsum piloso insertis; antheris pum caes 
membranaceis, imo in furcas 2 parallele obtusas subbreves divisis; disco eylindrico, lobis 5, apice 
truncatis; ovariis 2, acute oblongis, discum excedentibus ; stylo filiformi ; dp T 
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