TaB. 7720. 
DIPLADENIA EXIMIA. 
Native of Brasil. 
Nat. Ord. ApocynacE#.—Tribe EcuitTIpEs, 
Genus DipLapenta, A.DC. (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 726.) 
DipLaDENiA (Enudipladenia) eximia; caule gracili volubili roseo minute 
puberulo, foliis parvis 1-1} poll. longis breviter petiolatis late ovatis 
ovalibus v. fere orbiculatis abrupte obtuse acuminatis v. fo) Dhaba papy- 
raceis basi rotundatis glaberrimis supra lete viridibus subtus pallidis, 
nervis utrinque 8-10 divaricatis subtus prominulis, petiolis vix jy poll. 
longis, paribus basi glandulis interpetioleribus erectis subulatis utrinque 
4-5 connexis, cymis pseudaxillaribus longiuscule pedunculatis, pedunculo 
1-2 poll. longo torto viridi, bracteis pedicellis brevioribus subulatis deci- 
duis sanguineis, calycis segmentis parvis subulato-lanceolatis sanguineis 
_ intus basi glandulis subulatis instructis, corolle tubo fere 2-pollicari infra 
medium cylindraceo dein anguste infundibulari intus medio infra staminum 
insertionem pilis deflexis onusto, limbi 23-3 poll. diam. lete rosei lobis 
explanatis rotundatis obtuse apiculatis, staminibus medio tubo insertis, 
antheris linearibus, connectivo in laminam ovato-oblongam producto, disci 
glandula solitaria oblonga, ovariis glaberrimis, stigmate pentagono. 
D. eximia, Hemsl. in Gard. Chron. 1893, vol. ii. p. 120. 
The beautiful plant here figured was imported by Messrs. 
F. Sander & Co., in 1889 or 1890, but from what country 
is rather uncertain. In answer to my request for informa- 
tion on this point, they promptly informed me that they 
believe it came from the Lelia purpurata country, with 
plants of that Orchid, of which the habitat is known to be 
the Province of Santa Catarina in South Brasil. It is 
a stove plant, flowering freely in the summer months. 
Deser.—A very slender, twining, nearly glabrous climber, 
Stem flexuous, rose-red, minutely puberulous. Leaves in 
distant pairs, very shortly petioled, an inch to an inch and 
a half long, from broadly ovate to elliptic or nearly orbi- 
cular, abruptly obtusely cuspidate, quite glabrous, bright 
green above, pale beneath, base rounded; nerves six to 
eight pairs, widely spreading, together with the midrib 
prominent beneath ; petioles with four to five interpetiolar, 
subulate, erect glands on each side of the stem. Cymes 
axillary, six- to eight-flowered ; peduncle one to two inches 
JUNE Ist, 1900. 
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