ECHI'TES SUBERECTA. 
~ SUBERECT ECHITES. 
EXOGENZR. OR DICOTYLEDONEZ, 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant belongs, 
NATURAL ORDER, APOCINACEA, 
COROLLIFLORE } Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, 
OF ; to which poe xg 
DECANDOLLE. ho Plant belongs, 
No. 143. 
ee LITES R. Brown. Catyx quinquepartitus. Cororra hypo- 
yna, hypocrate etrpied vel infundibuliformis, fauce tuboque esquamata, 
ligabi witea anes laciniis inequilateris. Stamina quinque corollz tubo vel 
fauci inserta, inclusa; anthere sagittate, medio stigmati cohzxrentes, appendi- 
cibus polling destitutis. Ovarta duo, ovulis ad suturam neutralem plurimis. 
s: 
ad umbilicum comosa, Frot ICES Bia Pe biles 
plerumque Jactescentes, in America et Asia tropica jureudbiibeds: foliis oppositis, 
ciliis in nonnullis sr cag Scag fae floribus ut plurimum speciosis, 
albis, luteis vel purpureis. Enpzicner: Gene aman 583. 
oblongis ate 
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SPECIES. Ecuires supEerecta. 
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subtus pubescentibus, racemis multifloris, corolla extus ; hirsuta, 
CHARACTER OF THE GeENUs, EcuiTes. Calyx i aaa 
Corou1a hypogynous, salver- or funnel-shaped, the throat and tube 
devoid of scales, the segments of the five-parted limb inequilateral. 
STAMENS five, inserted either on the tube or throat of the corolla, in- 
which they are inclosed; anthers arrow-shaped, cohering to the middle 
of the stigma, the appendages devoid of pollen. 
numerous, attached to the ventral suture. StTyie one, filiform. 
Stigma five-cornered, conical at the apex. The fine hypogynous 
little scales free, or rarely connate. Fouiicies slender. SEEDS 
numerous, comose at the umbilicus. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SpEciES, EcuiTes suBERECTA. A shrub, 
varying in height from three feet to ten; climbing, but scarcely 
twining; when tall, reclining or deflexed, if it meet with no supports. 
Stem smooth, round. Leaves opposite, articulate with the stem; 
petiole about half an inch in length, slightly twisted, lamina oblong, 
mucronate, generally smooth on both surfaces, occasionally pubescent 
below, dark green on the upper surface, lighter on the under. INFLO- 
OVARIES two, ovules — 
