918 ON THE GENUS SYMBOLANTHUS. 
long; pedicels 6 lines long; sepals 1 in. long, 4 in. broad; tube of 
corolla 23 in. long, 10 lines diameter above the middle, contracted to 
6 lines in the mouth; segments of border 1 inch long, 10 lines broad ; 
capsule 24 in. long, 1 in. in diameter, enveloped bs the enlarged 
calyx 
2. Symbolanthus superbus, n. sp.; glaberrimus, ramulis 4-gonis, 
fistulosis, annulato-nodosis; foliis late elliptieis vel oblongis, imo 
acutis, apice breviter acute attenuatis, utrinque, lete viribus, pauci- 
nerviis, nervis remotis vix prominentibus, eveniis ; petiolis compressis, 
canaliculatis, imo dilatatis, et in annulum circa caulem eoalitis ; floribus 
terminalibus, axillaribus, ternato-verticellatis ; pedicellis erectis, calyce 
longioribus, imo bracteis 3 parvis acutis membranaceis munitis; sepalis 
5, imbricatis, oblongis, obtusis, marginibus membranaceis et integris, 
medio nervo crasso carinatis ; corolla speciosissima, tubo rubro-roseo, 
campanulato-infundibuliformi, sepalis plusquam 2-plo longiore, ore 
amplo subobliquo, limbi segmentis orbieularibus, apice subito acumi- 
natis, imo late auriculato-e xpansis, et imbrieatis, subreflexis; stamini- 
theris imo divaricatis, arcuatim curvatis; ovario conico-oblongo, disco 
annulari insito ; stylo subulato, stigmate 2-lamellato, faucem attingente. 
—In Nova Granada, v. s. Rio Magdalena (Weir, 95). 
A beautiful plant, apparently of more herbaceous growth than the 
preceding species, from which it also differs in its larger leaves, upon 
a longer petiole, its more campanular corolla, and its stamens spirally 
convoluted around the arcuated anthers. The axils are about 14 in. 
apart; the leaves are 33-43 in. long, 14-23 in. broad, on a petiole 
3-5 in. long; the pedicels are 14 in. long; the sepals 1 in. long, 5 
lines broad ; the tube of the corolla is 2 in. long, 1 in. in diameter at 
the mouth, the segments of the border are 1 in. long, 1 in. broad, the 
stamens scarcely extend beyond the mouth, being spirally curved for 
more than a revolution around the anthers; the stigmata are spathu- 
lately oblong, 2 lines long, 14 line broad. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV., re pom Symbolanthus superbus, 
Miers, from specimens collected P Mr. —Fig. 1, an entire rudis, Fig. 
2, corolla laid open. Fig. 3, a stamen. en 2 d 8 slightly magnified. 
