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EchItes hirsuta. Hairy-flowered 

 Echites. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Digynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — ApocYNEiE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx 5-partitus, laciniis intus squamula instructis. Co- 

 rolla hypocrateriformis aut infundibuliformis, tubo plus 

 minus elongato, limbo 5-partito, laciniis subinaequilateralis, 

 fauce nuda. Stamina inclusa, antheris sagittatis, raro hasta- 

 tis vel subcordatis. Ovaria 2, glandulis 5 hypogynis cincta 

 aut superata. Stylus 1. Stigma capitatum. Folliculi 2, 

 cylindracei, angusti, serninibus comosis. Mart, et Stadelm. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Echites hirsuta ; foliis late ovatis ovato-oblongis v. oblon- 

 gis cuspidatis basi contracta auriculato-cordatis, race- 

 mis lateralibus elongatis multifloris, corollas tubo ex- 

 tus albo-villoso e medio infundibuliformi, limbi laci- 

 niis obovatis hinc dente laterali longiusculo, folliculis 

 semipedalibus subtorulosis hirsutis. Stadelm. 



Echites hirsuta. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Per. p. 19. t. \36. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veget. v. 9. Veil. Fl. Flum. v. 3. t. 44. 

 Stadelmeyer, Echit. Brasil. in Biebl. zur Flora, oder 

 Bot. Zeit. 1841, Erst. Band. p. 1. 



The South American species of Echites are numerous, 

 little known, ill-described : yet, I have reason to believe 

 that this is correctly referred to E. hirsuta of Ruiz and 

 Pavon, and that it is a species widely dispersed throughout 

 South America, and especially frequent in Brazil. Less 

 beautiful, unquestionably, than the E. splendens (Bot. Mug. 

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