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bracteolated ; flowers white, like those of jessamine, pedicellated ; sepals lanceolate acute, 

 equal, 6 times shorter than the tube of the corolla, having at their base inside 5 denticu- 

 lated scales ; the tube of corolla 4 lines long, swollen at its base, pubescent in the throat, 

 border-segments a little shorter than the tube, expanded, insequilateral, roundly obovate ; 

 stamens inserted in the base of the tube; anthers linear sagittate, cohering in a cone 

 by adhesion to the clavuncle; 2 ovaries conically pointed, plano-convex, apparently 

 without a disk ; the 5 toothed scales mentioned by Kunth belong to the sepals. These 

 characters, especially the position of the stamens, are those of Peschiera. 



31. Peschiera litoralis, nob. : Tabernmmontana litoralis, H. B. K. iii. 238 : A. DC. /. c. p. 363. In 



Campeche : non vidi. 



Branches smooth, dichotomous ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acute at the base, subacuminate, 

 membranaceous, with entire margins, midrib and nerves prominent below, green above, 

 paler beneath, nearly 5 in. long, 2 in. broad, on channelled petioles 4 lines long, their 

 margins conjoined by a transverse line; opposite interpetiolar panicles, shorter than the 

 leaves; peduncle subdichotomous, with few bracteolated flowers 2 in. long; sepals linear- 

 subulate, fleshy, with membranaceous margins, very imbricated, the 2 interior narrower ; 

 corolla salvershaped, tube cylindrical and twisting, 4-5 times as long as the calyx, 

 border-segments very expanded, half-obovate, equal, shorter than the tube; stamens 

 inserted upon a pUose ring, near the base of the tube ; ovaries 2, ovate. 



Erom its salvershaped corolla with a long tube, with stamens fixed near its base, and 

 its ovaries without a disk, this species well accords with Peschiera. 



32. Peschiera multiflora. Spruce, MS. : TabernoBmontana Benthamiana, Miill. I. c. p. 80. In Amazonas : 

 V. s. in hb. meo et alior. prope Obidos (Spruce 235) . 



A suffruticose species 6-10 feet high, with cinereous-brown branchlets, with axils 

 i-f in. apart : the leaves are 3-5 in. long, lf-2| in. broad, on very slender petioles 

 2-3 lines long ; they are very acute at the base, shortly acuminated at the apex : the 

 peduncle of the copious dichotomous corymb is 2-5 lines long, 2 primary branches 

 4 lines, the secondary 3 lines ; the pedicels 2 lines long, with lanceolate bracteoles 1^ line 

 long ; sepals 1 line long ; tube of corolla 6 lines long, swollen below, narrowed above, 

 pUose within ; stamens fixed a little above the base, segments of border broadly dola- 

 brifonn, subfleshy, 5 lines long, with sinistrorse convolution. 



33. Peschiera breviflora, nob. : Tabernamontana breviflora, Miill. /. c. p. 79. Prov. Espirito Santo, 

 inter Campos et Victoria : non vidi. 



A species said to be near P. multiflora : leaves elliptic lanceolate, shortly acute at both 

 ends, submembranaceous, subopake above, below veinless, with about 10 distant pairs of 

 nerves ; corymbs terminal, compactly many-flowered, divided at the base, a little shorter 

 than the leaves; flowers subsparse; peduncle very short, its branches rather long; 

 bracteoles ovately triangular, subobtuse, short, erect ; flowers 6 lines long ; sepals 

 acutely triangular, f line long; tube of corolla slender, 3f line long, pubescent within. 



