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compressa, reniformi-rhomboidea, in pulpam tenuem nidulantia, 
testa scrobiculata. Embryo intra albumen carnosum fere annu- 
laris, filiformis, cotyledonibus semiteretibus, radicula paulo curvata, 
infera, ab hilo laterali declinante, eequilongis. 
Suffrutices Americe intertropice: indigene ; folia alterna, petio- 
lata, elliptica, integra: flores rarius axillares, bini, vel sepissime 
é ramulo novello cymulam umbelliformam, primum terminalem, mox 
lateralem simulantes ; pedicelli wniflori, elongati; corolle longe, 
speciosa. 3 
§ I. Tocuroma vera: corolla dense purpurea. 
1. Tochroma ¢udulosa, Bth. Bot. Reg. vol. xxxi. tab. 20. 
Habrothamnus cyaneus, Lind?. Bot. Reg. vol. xxx. Mise. p. 72: 
ramulis junioribus incano-pulverulentis : foliis. ellipticis, utrinque 
acuminatis, subacutis, imo in petiolum decurrentibus, pulveru- 
lentis, superne demum parce pubescentibus, cymula 6-8-flore, 
calyce inflato, corolla profunde purpurea.—Loxa, in Andibus 
Ecuadorensibus. (Hartweg). vv. v. cult. et sic. in herb. Hooker. 
(Loxa, Seemann, n. 883.) 
This is described as a shrub, from four to six feet high. The 
leaves are three inches and a half long, one inch and three quarters 
broad, upon a petiole one inch in length. From six to eight 
flowers spring out of the apex of the branch, which subsequently 
increasing, leaves the fascicle finally axillary; the peduncle is ten 
to fourteen lines long, the calyx is four lines long, and the corolla, 
of a deep rich purple colour, is one inch and a quarter long, and 
two lines and a half in diameter, somewhat narrow in the mouth 
and base, the border very short, somewhat cup-shaped, being only 
four lines in diameter, when fully expanded : its margin is almost 
entire, tomentose, with five extremely short, almost obsolete, 
- rounded teeth. ‘The berry is oval, five lines long, three lines in 
diameter, enclosed in the scarcely enlarged ventricose, membrana- 
ceous calyx, and contains a number of small, flattened, rhomboidal 
seeds. 
2. Tochroma Jongipes, (n. sp.) : ramulis glabris ; foliis ellipticis, 
utrinque acuminatis, longe petiolatis, undique glaberrimis, subtus 
