42 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 



Marckea, not only in its scandent habit, with large coriaceous 

 leaves, but in the form of its corolla. It differs however from 

 those genera in having a large, ovate, fleshy, tubular calyx, which 

 is much inflated in the middle, with a remarkably contracted 

 mouth, bursting irregularly with the growi:h of the fruit, and not 

 divided into distinct sepals as in the other genera above-men- 

 tioned; it is also distinguishable ixom Juanulloa by its long, 

 handsomCj tubular corolla. Its name is derived from aap^, caro, 

 and (^va-Tjj vesica^ because of its fleshy inflated calyx. 



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Sarcophysa (gen. nov.). — Calyx magnus, coloratus, ovatus, m- 

 flato-tubulosus, crasso-carnosus, ore coarctato, breviter 5-par- 

 tito, laciniis acutis, erectis, persistens, sed non augescens. 

 Corolla cylindrico-tubulosa, tubo medio subinflato, calyce 3-plo 

 longiore, limbo breviter 5-lobo, lobis acutis reflexis, staminibus 

 styloque inclusia. Bacca ovata, styli basi apiculata, calyce 

 coriacco irregulariter fisso vestita. C8etera ignota. — Suffrutex 

 scandens Novce Granada, folia alterna^ ovata^ coriacea ; racemi 

 penduli, pauciflores ; corolla speciosa. 



1. Sarcophysa speciosa (n. sp.) J — ramis dependentibus, dense 

 tomentosis ; foliis ovatis, basi obtusis, apice breviter angustatis, 

 crasso-coriaceis, nervis profunde impressis, supra glaberrimis, 

 minute ruguloso-punctulatis, subtus flavido-tomentosis, pilis 

 stellato-brachiatis, petiolo crasso, reflexo, canaliculato, sub- 

 brevi ; calyce magno, colorato j corolla punicea ?, calyce duplo 

 longiore, extus subtomentosa ; bacca magna, calyce vix aucto^ 

 fissOj sequilongo, inclusa. — Nova Granada, v, s. in herb. Hook, 

 (Quindiu et Palmas, Goudot; Quindiu, Purdie). 



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This appears to be a scandent plant ; its leaves are quite smooth 

 above, with a finely rugulose or shagreened surface ; below they 

 are, as well as the petiole, covered with a dense orange-coloured 

 and short tomentum ; they are 4 inches long, 2^ inches broad, on 

 a thick channeled petiole half an inch long ; the flowers appear 

 racemose ; the calyx 1| inch long, nearly an inch in diameter ; the 

 corolla is 2^ inches in length, 8 lines diameter in the middle, 

 contracted at both extremities to 5 lines, with oblong triangular 

 teeth^ 3 lines long; the berry unripe is 1^ inch long, | inch dia- 

 meter, surrounded by the persistent coriaceous calyx, which is 

 irregularly split on one side to the base ; the hairs of the tomen- 

 tum are distinctly brachiate*. 



ECTOZOMA. 



In the Pavonian herbarium, preserved in the British Museum, 

 I have noticed a plant that offers much analogy with the fore- 



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* This species is shown in plate 47. 



