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EcuiTes SuperectA (6). Larcer 
SAVANNA-FLOWER. 
Clafs and Order. 
PENTANDRIA MoNoGYNIA, 
Generic Chara@er. 
Contorta. Folliculi 2, longi, re@i. Sem. pappola, Cor, in-_ 
fundibuliformis, fauce nuda. 
Specific Charadfer and Synonyms. 
ECHITES /ubereGa; pedunculis multifloris, corollis cylin- 
draceis extus hirfutis, foliis fubovatis mucronatis 
fubtus pubefcentibus. Swarlz.Obf.104. Willd, - 
op. Pio 1, 1938, ° : 
ECHITES /ubereéa. Linu. Sp. Pl. 307. Reich. 1. p.596. Hort. 
Kew. 1. 298. Jacq. Amer. 32. 1.26. Mart, Mill, 
Didi. n. 3. : 
| NERIUM? a. farmentofum, foliis nitidis ovatis venofis, pe- 
dunculis longis ramofis, floribus fauce ampliatis. 
Browne Fam. 180. & % 
s APOCYNUM ereftum fruticofum, flore luteo maximo et 
{fpeciofiflimo, Sloane Fam. 89. Hifi. 1. p. 206, t. 
130. f. 2. Raii Hifi. 3. p. 536. a 
(2). corollis foliifque levibus. ‘ 
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This plant has been defcribed by Jacquin, and more fully 
by Swarrz in his Od/ervationes ; but neither of thefe authors 
have remarked the fingular manner in which the footftalk of 
: the leaf is inferted into the branch, through the medium of a 
kind of glandular ftipule. 
Jacquin fays the anthers are ‘haftate, but Swartz more 
Correétly defcribes the filaments as fagittate, and the anthers, 
which. 
