SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. 149 
nibus semiteretibus, radicula incurvata, infera, ab hilo declinante, 
duplo, 3-plove brevioribus.—Suffrutices Heuadorenses, folia alterna 
petiotata, flores speciosi, purpurascentes, sub-wmbellati, pedicellis 
elongatis, unifloris. 
1. Cleochroma macrocalyx. Iochroma macrocalyx, Hook. (ante 
p- 19:) Lond. J. Bot. iv. p. 339, tab. 13-14: foliis rhomboideo- 
ovatis, utrinque molliter pubescentibus, subtus pallidis: floribus 
umbellato-fasciculatis: calyce tubo magno, ventricoso, 5-dentato, 
dentibus inzequalibus, corolla magna, speciosa, tubo calyce 2-3-plo 
longiore, hirtella, violacea, staminibus inclusis, filamentis dilatatis, 
glabris, nervo longitudinali notatis,imo margine ciliatis—Quito, in 
vallem Lloz altit. 9,500 ped. v. s. in herb. Hook. (Hall.) 
I have little to add to the details of this species given in the 
place above quoted, except that. of the observations made by Col. 
Hall, that “the calyx and corolla are of a deep indigo blue.” 
2. Cleochroma ecalycina. Iochroma calycina, Bth. Bot. Reg. 
1831. su Tab. 20: ramulis angulatis, verrucosis, pallide floc- 
coso-pulverulentis ; foliis deflexis, oblongo-lanceolatis, minute 
ruguloso-punctatis, aspero et incano-pulverulentis, inferne flavidis 
et araneoso-pulverulentis, petiolo valido, caniculato, imo crassiore ; 
floribus fasciculato-congestis, calyce magno, medio inflato, demum 
augescente, hine fisso; corolla tubulosa, cyanea, floccoso-pubes- 
cente, limbo expanso, 5-partito, genitalibus inclusis, filamentis 
dilatatis, tenuibus, nervo centrali notatis, glabris, imo margine 
ciliatis. Columbia. v. s. in herb. Hook. (Hartweg. 2. 1312.) 
This plant has a very peculiar appearance ; the leaves are turned 
down by the deflexion of the petiole, and are remarkable for the 
numerous close, almost scabrid spots of pulverulent hairs, and for 
the yellowish glandular pruinose down, that covers the under 
surface: they are six inches long, and two inches and a quarter 
broad, on a petiole of three quarters of an inch : the pedicels are 
one inch long, swelling upwards, the calyx, at first small and cylin- 
drical, afterwards swells and acquires, before the ripening of the 
fruit, a length of one inch and a half, and is dilated below to the 
diameter of balf an inch, remaining contracted in the mouth, so 
that by the growth of the included berry, it becomes ruptured on 
