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The name now proposed for this genus is derived from o-rpeTTTo?, 

 tortus, acoXrjv, tubus, because of the torsion of the lower portion 

 of the tube of the corolla. 



Steeptosolen (gen, nov),—Caly3c tubulosus, 4-5-nervis, reti- 

 culatus, 4-5-dentatuSj dentibus insequalibuSj persistens. Co- 

 rolla infundibuHformi-tubulosaj subcurvula, limbo campanu- 

 lato, subobliquo^ brevissime 5-lobo, lobis apiculatis aut emar- 

 ginatisj antico paulo latiore, tubi torsione mox resupinato, sesti- 

 vatione replicativa. Stamina 4, didynama^ inclusa, valde in- 

 sequalia, 2 inferiora (in alabastri antica) imo tubi orta, 2 supe- 

 riora brevissima fauce inserta ; filamenta teretia, recta^ pilosa, 

 mox glabra; anther (B "^-loh^, subdechnatse, lobis ovatis, imo 

 late divaricatisj margine dehiscentibus^ singulo receptaculo 

 poUinifcro globoso intus instructo, superiorum lobo altero mi- 

 nimo casso. Ovarium ovatum, disco glanduloso stipitato imo 

 cinctum^ apice parce pilosum^ demum glabrum^ 2-loculare, 

 placentis carnosis dissepimento adnatis^ multiovulatis. Stylus 

 filiformisj apice incrassatus^ subincurvus^ tubulosus^ et trans- 

 verse rugoso-crenulatus. Stigma valde dilatatum, imo late 

 cordatum, 2-labiatumj lobis sequalibus obtusis conniventibus, 

 mox hiantibus^ in sinu cavernosum. Capsula ovata^ coriacea^ 

 calyce tccta^ 2-locularis^ 2-valvis^ valvis 2-fidisj dissepimento 

 libero parallelis. Semina plurima Browallice, — Suffrutices 

 Nova-Granadenses et Ecuadorenses strigoso-hispidulcs. Folia 

 ovata, coriacea, rugosa, a^era, petiolata, fiorifera ad bracteas 

 redacta. Flores pedunculati, terminates, conferti, subcorymbosi. 

 Corolla aurantiaca, extus valde pubescens. 



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1. Streptosolen Jamesoni. Browallia Jamesoni, Benih., DC. 

 Prodr. X. 197; — fusco- et scabrido-hispidula^ foliis ovatis, 

 utrinque acutis, subcoriaceis, bullato-rugosisj subtus nervis 

 valde prominuhs, utrinque scabridis, longiuscule pctiolatis, 

 corymbo ampliore, calycis dentibus 4 subaequalibus, acutis, 

 erectis, fusco-viridibus^ tubo cylindrico, augustato, medio con- 

 tractor concolori : coroUse aurantiacse tubo infundibuliformi 

 ampliore extus mollitcr tomentoso, limbi campanulati lobis 

 fere sequalibus, brevissimis, mucronulatis. — Ecuador, v. s. in 

 herb. Hook. Loxa, Hartweg,no. 818. Sasaranga, prope Loxam, 

 Seemann, no. 872. 



I have already described in the foregoing page the pecuhar 

 habit of this species; the leaves are 1| inch long, 8 lines broad, 

 on a narrow channeled petiole of 4 hues; above they are deeply 

 furrowed at the nervures with prominent reticulate veins, hispidly 

 pubescent below, scabrido-hispid above, of a very dark green 

 colour, opake and brittle when dried ; the peduncles are 4 lines 



