350 SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANY. 
nibus semiteretibus, radicula incurvata, infera, ab hilo declinante, 
duplo, 3-plove brevioribus.—Suffrutices Æcuadorenses, folia alterna 
petiolata, flores speciosi, purpurascentes, sub-umbellati, pedicellis 
elongatis, unifloris. 
1. Cleochroma wacrocalyæ. Tochroma macrocalyx, Hook. Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vol. iv. p. 339. tab. 13-14: foliis rhomboideo-ovatis, 
utrinque molliter pubescentibus, subtus pallidis: floribus umbel- 
lato-fasciculatis : calyce tubo magno, ventricoso, 5-dentato, den- 
tibus inzqualibus, corolla magna, speciosa, tubo calyce 2-3-plo 
longiore, hirtella, violacea, staminibus inclusis, filamentis dilatatis, 
glabris, nervo longitudinali notatis,imo margine ciliatis.— Quito, in 
vallem Lloz altit. 9,500 ped. v. s. in herb. Hook. (Hall.) 
I have little to add to the details of this species given in the - 
place above quoted, except that of the observations made by Col. 
Hall, that * the calyx and corolla are of a deep indigo blue." 
2. Cleochroma calycina. Iochroma calycina, Bth. Bot. Reg: 
1831. sub Tab. 20: ramulis angulatis, verrucosis, pallide floc- 
coso-pulverulentis ; foliis deflexis, oblongo-lanceolatis, minute 
ruguloso-punctatis, aspero et incano-pulverulentis, inferne flavidis 
et araneoso-pulverulentis, petiolo valido; caniculato, imo crassiore 5 
floribus fasciculato-congestis, calyce magno, medio inflato, demum 
augescente, hine fisso; corolla tubulosa, cyanea, floccoso-pubes- 
cente, limbo expanso, 5-partito, genitalibus inclusis, filamentis 
dilatatis, tenuibus, nervo centrali notatis, glabris, imo margme 
ciliatis. Columbia. v. s. in herb. Hook. (Hartweg. n. 1312.) 
This plant hasa very peculiar appearance; the leaves are turned ——— 
down by the deflexion of the petiole, and are remarkable for the 
numerous close, almost scabrid spots of pulverulent hairs, and for 
the yellowish glandular pruinose down, that covers the under 
surface: they are six inches long, and two inches and a quarter 
broad, on a petiole of three quarters of an inch: the pedicels are 
one inch long, swelling upwards, the calyx, at first small and cylin- 
drical, afterwards swells and acquires, before the ripening of the 
fruit, a length of one inch and a half, and is dilated below, to the it à i 
diameter of half an inch, remaining contracted in the mouth, s0 ; 
ihat by the growth of the included berry, it becomes ruptured on 
