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terminalibus corymbosis, floribus minute puberulis, laciniis 

 caljcinis coroUinisque acutis. — Frutex ut videtur scandens, 

 preecedenti affinis. Folia circa 3 poll, longa, non coriacea. 

 Fiores majores quam in T, Imirifolia. AnthercC Jongius 

 exsertae, filamentis filiformibus. Fructus non vidi. — British 

 Guiana, Schomburgk, n. 277. 



561. Echites angustifolia (sp. n.) ; glaberrima, suberecta, 

 foliis oblongo-linearibus obtusis mucronulatis inargine i-evo- 

 lutis coriaceis supra nitidis, pediinculis subspicatim niultifloris, 

 laciniis calycinis obtusis, corollis infundibuliformibus. — Spe- 

 cimina a vermibus exesa, speciem tamen distinctissimam de- 

 monstrant, E. nitidce, Vahl, affinem. Ramuli crassiusculi. 

 Folia ternatim verticillata, 1 — H-pollicaria. Racemi rhachis 

 flexuosa. Pedicelli breves, crassi, in rhachide articulati. 

 Corolla aurantiaca, fundo coccineo, sesquipollicaris, tubo 

 tenui, fauce longa campanulata. FoIHculi graciles, apice 

 connati.- — Among underwood in the sandstone regions of 

 Roraima. Schomburgk, n. 1053. 



562. E. subcarnosa (sp. n.) ; glaberrima, volubilis, foliis 

 ellipticis utrinque obtusis, apice acumine brevi obtuso auctis, 

 coriaceis, nitidis, margine revolutis, pedunculis subspicatim 

 multifloris, laciniis calycinis acutiusculis, corollis infundi- 

 buliformibus. — A single specimen from Roraima, much in- 

 jured by worms, but remarkable by the thick almost fleshy 

 stems; the leaves two to three inches long, thick and marked 

 with transverse parallel veins as in Plumeria. Inflorescence 

 and flowers nearly the same as in E. angustifolia. 



563. E. tomentosa, Vahl, Symb, iii. 44. Ic. t. 4. — E. hir- 



suta, Rich. Act. Hist. Nat. Par. 107 E. Richardi, Rcem. et 



Schult. Syst. IV. 391. — French Guiana, Leprieiir, Herb. Par, 

 n. 138, also in Salzmann's Bahia collection.— This species, 

 with the two preceding, and the two following ones, belong to 

 a group or subgenus with the flowers almost spicate; that is, 

 borne on very short pedicels along a simple thickened rhachis, 

 with infundibuliform corollas, and the follicles in most (if 

 not in all) of the species connate at the apex before they are 

 ripe. The stamens are by some authors described as exserted, 



