356 SOUTH AMERICAN BOTANY. 
3. Pecilochroma guttata (n. sp.) : suffruticosa, ramulis angu- 
loso-striatis, subverrueulosis, omnino glabris: foliis solitariis, 
rarius geminis, obovatis, apice breviter et repente attenuatis, imo 
subcuneatis, crasso-coriaceis, utrinque (etiam junioribus) glaberri- 
mis, et eveniis, supra lucido-viridibus; subtus luteo-pallidis, mar- 
gine revolutis, breviter petiolatis: floribus 8—9 ad apicem ramo- 
rum fasciculato-aggregatis, nutantibus, pedunculis unifloris, apice 
incrassatis, flore paulo longioribus, calyce glabro, corolla speciosa, 
campanulata, limbo sinuato-5-angulato, extus pulverulento-tomen- 
tosa, intus subglabra, punctis purpureis maculata, et imo pubes- 
cente, ovario tomentoso.—Peruvia. v. s. in herb. meo. (Mathews, 
No. 1151. sub nomine Saracha punctata, R. & P.) 
Judging from the details and figure in the Flora Peruviana, this 
plant is certainly specifically distinct from the first described 
species to which Mathews referred it. The spots in the corolla 
are not distinguishable in the dried state, and they are probably 
more or less common to all the species of this genus : its leaves 
are small, fleshy, with a total absence of all pubescence, and of 
any apparent venation, are more ovate, much smaller, with a 
comparatively longer petiole than in P. punctata; in fact, they 
more resemble those of the genus Zycioplesium : in the specimen 
I possess, they measure one inch and five-eighths in length, and 
seven-eighths of an inch in breadth, with a petiole one inch and a 
quarter long; they are thick, fleshy, polished above, below of a 
pale greenish colour, with a prominent reddish mid-rib, and about 
five pairs of spreading, slightly prominent nerves. The pedun- 
cles are nearly one inch long, and nodding, being much thickened 
towards the apex: the corolla is of the same length, and seven- 
eighths of an inch in diameter across the mouth; it is less cam- 
panulate below, and the lobes of its border more acute, with a. 
rounder intervening sinus than in P. punctatus; the margin is 
ciliately tomentose, outside it is covered with short, yellowish 
tomentum, inside it is nearly smooth, except towards the base, 
where it is very pubescent; the calyx is quite glabrous, with 
roundish, unequal, and membranaceous lobes, five lo 
nerves, one in the middle of each lobe, terminating in as many 
