Tas. 7999. 
ANGELONTA nveceerima. 
Brazil and Paraguay. 
SCROPHULARIACES. ‘Tribe HEMIMERIDER. 
Aneetonia, Humb, et Bonpl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 980. 
Angelonia ({ Crassifolie) integerrima, Spreng. Syst. vol. iv. Cur. Post. 
p. 235; Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. ii. p. 592; Schmidt in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. vol. viii. pars 1, p. 243, t. 89, fig. 1; inter species hujus 
sectionis planta glaberrima foliis integerrimis vel obscure paucidentatis 
distinctissima. 
Herba vel suffrutex 14-3 ped. altus, glaberrimus. Caules erecti, stricti, 
robusti, simplices vel parce ramosi, plus minnsve conspicue quadrangn- 
lares; internodia 1-2 poll. longa. Folia opposita et decussata, suab- 
opposita vel subverticillata, sessilia vel rarius brevissime petiolata, paulum 
coriacea, lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, 14-4 poll. longa, 4-9 lin. lata, 
acuta vel obtusiuscula, basi angustata, iutegerrima, margine leviter 
revoluta, vel obscure paucidentata, supra costa impressa infra elevata. 
Racemi terminales, 4-6 poll. rare usque ad 9 poll. longi, laxiuseuli, 
bracteati, floribus -nutantibus; pedicelli solitarii, geminati vel interdum 
fasciculati, graciles, ascendentes, 33-6 lin. longi, seepe bracteas superantes. 
Calyx 5-partitus ; segmenta ovata, 14-2 lin. longa, 13 lin. lata, acuta, mar- 
gine membranacea, obsolete ciliolata. Corolla ampla, 7-8 lin. in diam., 
pallide cwrulea vel lilacina, purpureo-maculata, antice saccata, sacco lato 
breviter 2-lobato; limbi lobi patentes, breves, rotundati, faucis appendice 
breviter obtusa lateraliter compressa. Stamina 4, didynama, inclusa; 
filamenta crassiuscula, minute glandnloso-pubescentia ; antherarum 
liberarum loculi divaricati. Stylus inclusus, leviter curvatus, minute 
glandaloso-pubescens, sursum attenuatus, inconspicue bifidus, Capsula 
ovoidea, 6-8 lin. longa, basi 4-44 lin. lata, acuta, profunde 2-valvata. 
Semina numerosa, parva, obovoidea, tegumento laxe reticulato. 
Angelonia comprises twenty-six species, nearly all of 
which are Brazilian. A. angustifolia, Benth., is found in 
Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Cuba, and J. salicariz- 
folia, Humb. et Bonpl., inhabits Venezuela, Colombia, 
British Guiana, and some of the West Indian islands, 
while A. hassleriana, Chodat, is at present known onl 
from Paraguay. A. integerrima has been collected by 
several travellers in the States of Sao Paulo and Rio 
Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, and by Balansa and 
Hassler in Paraguay. : 
Several species of Angelonia, mostly pretty, free-flower- 
ing herbs or undershrubs, have appeared from time to 
time in European gardens, apparently, in most cases, to 
disappear again very quickly. Three have been figured 
in this magazine: A. salicariefolia (t. 2478), A. Gardneri 
Fesrvary Ist, 1905. 
