354 SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANY. 
fruit. From Zycioplesium, to which in many of its species it 
approaches greatly in habit, and in the peculiar appearance of its 
leaves, it differs by its being déstitute of spines, by its larger, 
broader, and more campanulate corolla. 
PœcrrocHRoma: gen. nov. — Calyx turbinatus, ore valde 
coarctatus et in dentibus 5 brevissimis approximatis desinens, 
tubo subcoriaceo, colorato, inæqualiter in fissuras 1-2-3 abrum- 
pens, persistens et non augescens. Corolla speciosa, campanulata, 
‘imo in tubum brevem contracta, plus minusve crassiuscula, sæpis- 
sime ornatim maculata, limbo expanso, sinuato-5-lobo, sestivatione 
plicato. Stamina 5, imo corollæ inserta, inclusa : filamenta tenuia, 
erecta, colorata: anthere oblongæ, 2-lobæ, lobis parallele adnatis, 
intus longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium obovatum, 2-locu- 
lare. Stylus longitudine staminum, gracilis. Stigma clavato- 
bilobum. Bacca pisiformis, calyce suffulta, 2-locularis. Semina 
plurima, cetera ignota. 
Frutices Æcuadorenses et Peruviani glabri : folia integerrima 
oblonga vel spathulato-ovata, breviter petiolata, crassiuscula, venis 
immersis : flores axillares, solitarii, vel bini, interdum plurimi, 
pedunculis l-floris elongatis, apice incrassatis, coloratis : corolla 
aurantiaca, pulcherrime maculata, vel rubicunda: baccæ pisi- 
Jormes, rubra. 
1. Pæcilochroma punctata. Saracha punctata, R. & P. (Fl. 
Peruv. vol. ii. p. 42. tab 1784:) suffruticosa: ramulis teretibus, 
fusco-coloratis, glabris, junioribus pulverulentis : folis solitariis, 
rarius geminis, ovato-oblongis, venosissimis, supra glabris, subtus 
pulverulentis: floribus ad summum ramorum fasciculatim aggre- 
gatis, nutantibus, pedunculis 6—7, elongatis, unifloris, apice incras- 
satis; calyce in dentibus rotundatis rumpente; corolla magna, 
late campanulata, limbo sinuato-5- angulato, extus pulverulenta, 
intus luteo-purpurascente, punctis purpureis maculata : genitalibus 
inclusis, glabris.—Ad Muna, Tambo, Portachuelo, et Obrajilla, in 
Andibus Peruvianis. 
The above plant, referred by Ruiz and Pavon to Saracha, un- 
questionably differs from all other species of that genus, Td oe 
are generally herbaceous, straggling plants, and very pubi 
