344 SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANY. 
compressa, reniformi-rhomboidea, in pulpam tenuem nidulantia, 
testa scrobiculata. Hmbryo intra albumen carnosum fere annu- 
laris, filiformis, cotyledonibus semiteretibus, radicula paulo curvata, 
infera, ab hilo laterali declinante, æquilongis. 
Suffrutices Americæ intertropicæ indigene ; folia alterna, petio- 
lata, elliptica, integra: flores rarius axillares, bini, vel sepissime 
è ramulo novello cymulam umbelliformam, primum terminalem, moz 
lateralem simulantes ; pedicelli uniflori, elongati ; corolle longa, 
speciose. 
$ I. Iocumowa vera : corolla dense purpurea. 
l. Iochroma ¢ubulosa, Bth. Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. tab. 20. 
Habrothamnus cyanæus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. vol. xxx. Mise. p. 12: 
ramulis junioribus incano-pulverulentis : foliis ellipticis, utrinque 
acuminatis, subacutis, imo in petiolum decurrentibus, pulveru- 
lentis, superne demum parce pubescentibus, cymula 6—8-flore, 
calyce inflato, corolla profunde purpurea. —Loxa, in Andibus 
Ecuadorensibus. (Hartweg). v. v. cult. et sic. in herb. Hooker. 
(Loxa, Seemann, n. 883.) 
This is described as a shrub, from four to six feet high. The 
leaves are three inches and a half long, one inch and three quarters 
broad, upon a petiole one inch in length. From six to eight 
flowers spring out of the apex of the branch, which subsequently 
increasing, leaves the fascicle finally axillary ; the peduncle is ten 
to fourteen lines long, the calyx is four lines long, and the corolla, 
of a deep rich purple colour, is one inch and a quarter long, and 
two lines and a half in diameter, somewhat narrow in the mouth 
and base, the border very short, somewhat cup-shaped, being au 
four lines in diameter, when fully expanded : its margin is almost 
entire, tomentose, with five extremely short, almost obsolete, 
rounded teeth. The berry is oval, five lines long, three lines m 
diameter, enclosed in the scarcely enlarged ventricose, membrana- RU 
ceous calyx, and contains a number of small, flattened, rhomboidal E. 
seeds. 
utrinque acuminatis, longe petiolatis, undique glaberrimis, subtus 
2. Tochroma /ongipes, (n. sp.) : ramulis glabris ; foliis ellipticis, e 
