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646. Plumeria rubra, Lian., Be .Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 390. — Nomen rernacul, "Caracucha 
colorada." Cultivated and naturalized in various parts of the Isthmus. 
64:6. Plumeria bicolor, Ruiz et Pav., De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 391. — Nomina vernacul. 
" Caracucha amarilla, Caracucha blanca, Caracucha cintaraza, et Caracucha fina." Cultivated, and, 
as the foregoing species^ naturalized in various parts of the Isthmus. 
I think there is little doubt that P. earinata, P. tricolor, and P. incarnata are mere varieties of this 
species ; indeed, I have considered them as such, and consequently quoted under P. Ucolor the vernacular 
names for these supposed varieties. The Phmierias are favourite flowers with the Isthmians ; they are seen 
in ahnost every garden, and on account of their heautiful and penetrating fragrance are much used in reli- 
gious processions and other festivities. A sunny, exposed situation is essential to then' success in culti- 
vation ; in shady places they produce plenty of leaves, but few or no flowers. ' 
647. Prestonia tomentosa, R. Brown, De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 429. Savanas near Panama. 
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My specimens agree sufficiently well with those collected by Claussen (no. 339) in Brazil, to induce me 
to consider them as belonging to P. tomentosa, E. Brown, to which De Candolle (1. c.) has referred them ; 
in my specimens, as well as those of Purdie from Santamarta, which belong to the same plant, the tube 
of the corolla is quite glabrous, the appendices of the corolla are obtuse or even emarginate, and longer 
than the corona ; but these discrepancies do not appear to me to be important enough for creating a new 
species, especially as so little is known about the real P. tomentosa, R. Brown, which, after aU, may turn 
out to be a plant quite different from what De Candolle sujaposes it to be. 
648. EcHiTES trifida, Jacq., De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 454. — E. tuhulosa, Benth. in Hook. 
Journ. of Bot. vol. iii. p. 249! Savanas near Panama. 
649. EcHiTEs lasiocarpa, De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 463. — E. auriculata, Stadelm., De Cand. 
1. c. p. 459. no. 59 ! Between Tole and David, Province of Yeraguas. 
650. EcniTES (§ Euechitcs) Veraguasensis , Seem.j fruticosa, volubilis, ramis pubesccntibus 
demum glabris, foiiis petiolatis ovato-oblongis basi cordatis multiglandulosis apice acuminatis supra 
glabris subtus ad axillas nervorum villosis, racemis axillaribus 5-8-flons bracteatis, bracteis ovatis 
acutis, laciniis calycinis ovatis acutis vcl aeuminatis glandulis destitutis, corollje tubo a medio infundi- 
buliformi, fauce patente, lobis obovatis obtusis, extus glabro, intus ad basim infundibuli villoso, sta- 
minibus infundibulo insertis, filamcntis villosis, anthcns glabris, ovario sfyloque glabris, folliculis 
Volcano of Chiriqui, Veraguas. 
This species agrees in many essential points with E. laxa, E. et Pav., but the corolla of that plant is stated 
to be yellow, while in E. Veraguasensis it is, with the exception of the tube, which is of that colour, dark 
purple ; the lobes of the corolla are also in E. Veraguasensis obovate obtuse. A species closely allied to the 
latter was collected by Purdie in the lower mountains of Quindiu, differing however in its corolla being 
outside partly tomentose. E. Veraguasensis has petioles about 1 inch long ; lamina of the leaves from 3^ to 
4 inches long, and from 1 to 1^ broad ; corolla 2^ inches long, rendering it a highly ornamental species. 
ASCLEPIADE^. 
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651. ScHUBERTiA tristis, Seem.; foiiis ovate -cordatis cuspidatis, umbcUis paucifloris, corolla 
tota glaberrima^ laciniis ovatis obtusissimis tubum corolla: uequantibus. Rio do Santamaria, be- 
tween Santiago de Veraguas and Nata. 
