2 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
that scarcely enlarges, and that is usually cleft, almost to the 
base, into five linear erect segments, not a campanulate, 
sinuato, 5-lobo, lobis acutis, sepissime dentibus interjectis, estivatione 
basi valde plicatis. Stamina 5, imo corolle inserta, filamentis filiformi- 
bus, glabris, basi dilatatis, antheris exsertis, cordato-oblongis, adnatis, 
2-lobis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, polline albido. Ovarium subro- 
tundum, glabrum, (disco nullo?), 2-loculare, placentis dissepimento 
adnatis, pluri-ovulatis. Stylus simplex, exsertus. Stigma clavato- 
capitatum, sub 2-lobum. Bacca globosa, parva, calyce membranacea 
suffulta. Semina plurima in pulpam nidulantia, compressa, reniformia, 
testa reticulata. Embryo intra albumen carnosum hamato-arcuatus, 
cotyledonibus semiteretibus; radiculi tereti, inferné paulo crassiora, 
duplo longiori, hilum petente. Suffrutices Americe intertropice, ramulis 
subdichotomis, flexuosis, teneris ; foliis plerumque geminis, altero vix mi- 
nori, ovatis, ellipticis, vel cordatis, integris, petiolatis. Inflorescentia 
pedunculo solitario laterali, cernuo, floribus 1-2 vel plurimis, umbellatis, 
rubris, flavis, vel rubro viridescentibus, Bacca alba, pisi magnitudine. 
1, Hebecladus viridifiorus. Atropa viridiflora. H. B. K. 3, 11, tab. 196; 
Caule fruticoso volubili, foliis geminis, elliptico-ovatis, subacuminatis, 
integerrimis, basi in petiolum decurrentibus, utrinque (presertim subtus) 
hirtellis; pedunculo bifloro ; floribus nutantibus ; corolla calyce 3-4 plo 
longiori, basi externe tuberculis 5 instructa.x—Nova Granada. 
Specimens of this plant exist in the herbarium of Sir William Hooker, 
collected by Professor Jameson on the Western side of the Volcano of 
Pichincha, at an altitude of 13,000 feet ; by Colonel Hall, in the Valley of 
Lloa, who describes it as a large shrub ; and again by Professor Jameson 
in Columbia (n. 195); and by Goudot, at Bogota in New Granada. The 
leaves are 3 inches long, and 14 inch broad, on a petiole $ inch long; pe- 
duncle 1-2 flowered, the calyx is somewhat pentagonous, and deeply cleft 
into 5 thin greenish triangular segments, with ciliate margins; the corolla 
is slightly pubescent ; the filaments are wholly free to the base, where: they 
have a short triangular dilatation, which is ciliate, above this they are 
slender and quite glabrous; the anthers are cordate at base, apiculate at — 
summit. 
2. Hebecladus umbellatus. Atropa umbellata. R. & P. 2, 44, tab. 181, a.; 
‘ caule frutescente, flexuoso fragili; foliis subgeminis, cordato-ovatis, 
subangulatis, pubescentibus ; pedunculo axillari, laterali, umbellato, 
multifloro, nutante; corolla mellifera, purpurea, limbo reflexo, ciliato, 
luteo, plicaturis vix dentatis ; staminibus inclusis; stylo exserto; bacca 
albida, calyce patenti anffulta,—Peravize collibus circa Limam et Chan- 
cay. v. s. in Herb. Hooker, Amancaés prope Limam (Mathews, n. 722), 
A small shrubby plant; the leaves are not only somewhat angularly 
sinuate, but have eroso-denticulate margins. 
