Gardneriane. N. O. Apocynee. 
TAS. CDLAX. 
EcHITES PULCHELLA. Gardn. 
Suffruticosa, erecta, glaberrima, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis 
basi subcuneatis, pedunculis valde elongatis 4-6-floris, calycis 
laciniis subulatis. 
Echites pulchella. Gardn. Herb. Bras. n. 3886. 
Has. In a moist upland campo near Villa de Arrayas, province 
of Goyaz, Brazil. March, 1840. 
This very rare species of Echites is a suffruticose plant, 
about a foot and a half high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves 
2.23 inches long, and from 4 to 6 lines broad, opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, narrowed towards the base, with a slightly 
thickened margin. Flowers 4-6 on a peduncle which is more 
than half the length of the whole plant. Pedicels 4-6 lines 
long. Calyx small, 5-parted: segments subulate. Corolla 
infundibuliform, scarlet; tube about three quarters of an inch 
long, contracted a little at the apex; segments oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, spreading. Stamens inserted on the tube of the corolla 
near its base. Filaments short, villous. _Anthers sagittate, 
cohering by their middle to the stigma. Fruit not seen.—G. 
Gardner. 
