4 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
though occasionally attaining large leaves and a pe a 
Wi 
Violeta, Souza a and §. Joaquim may be mentioned as ronda 
and it occurs freely twenty miles away, N.E. of Mosqueiro. The 
leaves are bright green and smooth, the young shoots delicately 
growing in open and dry ee this plant seems more in its 
element when twining up the stems ’ Fea along paths and 
in the half shade of second-growth for 
A. Burchellii. In regard to looaliey range of distribution, 
abundance, method of grove &e., this species is on all 
with the last-named. In other matters, however, it is very 
distinct. It is essentially a rook climbing plant, the under- 
surface of the leaves and the stem readily adhering to one’ 8 
clothes. It goes by the local appellation of ‘‘ coragao de cobra,” 
from a fancied resemblance of the leaf to the heart of a snake. 
Both leaf and stem are of a bluish green, and are not quite so 
strongly aeuied as in the paietricttinnnd saree Flower larger, 
purple and light green, and fairly common. sules and seeds 
also larger in proportion, and rough like the ek of the plant. 
A. trilobata. This species I have only recently found growing 
oad in the matto of Marajo island. met with it on three 
occasions in gardens in the Ilha das Ongas and on the road to 
M u, and I alae that it was locally known as ‘ urubuca,’ 
and sey ‘grow wn, many other herbs, as a ‘remedio.’ The 
tripartite _ rsombing that of certain Passion flowers, is 
isleading in appea bak ts scent is pamggenrette _~ its 
fairly large Mnkicea ah ste flower of cream and maroon is 
characteristically that of an pate ne hia 
. Mossi. The entire plant is inclined to be glossy and 
smooth, without hair and without bloom. Stems and veining 
of leaves light to maroon, giving a distinctive character at 
ce. Leaves dark ochreous green on upper side, lighter beneath, 
and smooth in te: Some leaves pointed at apex, but many 
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usual Ttistoloess odour in common with such species as A. 
lanceolato-lorata and longecaudata. One flower (in gradation of 
growth) above each leaf on flowering stem. Flower smaller ar 
didyma, and bearing only a general resemblance to it on first 
glance. Upper lip or Aon? single, pointed, very heavily marked 
with dark purplish maroon, and with hairy appendages of same 
colour. The —_ Neadiie fringed with light oor rear 
hairs. The flower speedily closes, and thus entraps dipter 
flies, &c., which nite released on the speedy decay of the fisrae, 
