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Peduncles—axillary in pairs, sometimes three, 1-flowered, 
round, one-fourth the length of the petioles. 
Corolla— reddish brown, two inches long, downy within, tu- 
bular, ventricose at the base, and obtusely hexagonal ; tube 
round, widening gradually above, limb or border oblique, tongue- 
shaped, apex reflexed. 
Anthere—long and yellow. 
_ Capsule—oblong, obtusely six-sided. 
_ Grows—spontaneously and abundantly in the Andes of Para; 
in the woods of ae and 
the banks of the i r Huallaha 3 
Flowers—in January and February at Lima, whither [ trans- 
planted and cultivated some young plants. : 
Valgarly known in those mountains and at Lima by the name 
of Star-reed and Contrayerva de Bejuco. 
_Observ.—The stalks, resembling cords when stripped of the 
bark, are used by the Indians for making thick ropes, and for 
forming traces and hand-rails to bridges; they also tie and in- 
terlace the posts and beams of their dwellings with these stalks, 
called by those tribes bejucos, in common with every climbing or 
_voluble plant, though aXe are each distinguished =. some appel- 
lative sata 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
| sania 
= 1. Root. 2. Transverse section of the base of the stems. $. Centre of the stem stripped 
of te bark. 4. Branch. 5, Tlowers. 6, Flower longitudinally cut. 7. Stamens and 
pistil. 8. Capsule closed. 
