64 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



long, in each axil, 7-10 lines broad, on petioles 3 and 2 lines long ; the peduncle is 

 5-6 lines long, the pedicels 4-5 lines long ; sepals 1 line long ; tube of corolla 14 lines 

 long, 1 line broad in the middle ; segments 8 lines long, 2 J lines broad, horizontally and 

 simply convoluted sinistrorsely in aestivation ; style long and slender, clavuncle incras- 

 sated with a basal membranaceous peltate appendage. 



6. Taberna RiedbliIj nob. : TaberncBmontana Riedelii, Miill. /. c. p. 72. In Amazonas ad Rio Madera 



(Riedel 1378) : non vidi. 

 A shrub 8-10 feet high : subcoriaceous leaves broadly ovate, shortly acute at the base, 

 with a short acute apex, punctulate-scabrous above, pallid below, and of an argillaceous 

 olive colour, with about 15 pairs of nerves, 6|-10 in. long, 4-5|- in. broad, on very short 

 petioles; panicle lateral, 8 or 10-flowered, on a scabridly hirsute peduncle, three times 

 as long as the short petioles ; pedicels as long as the calyx, with ovate ciliated bracts ; 

 sepals broadly ovate and rounded, with ciliated margins, and with many internal basal 

 scales ; tube of corolla five times as long as the calyx, 9J liues long, finely pulverulent 

 and scabrous outside ; stamens seated below the middle of tube on a pilose ring ; ovaries 

 glabrous, slightly swollen below the middle by an adnate disk. 



7. Taberna disticha, nob. : TaberncBmontana disticha, A. DC. viii. 363. In Guiana Gallica : non vidi. 



Branches terete, yellowish, with internodes shorter than the leaves : leaves dis- 

 tichous, oblong, somewhat acute at the base, acuminate at the apex, membranaceous, 

 3-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, on petioles 2-3 lines long ; raceme lateral, on a thick peduncle 

 scarcely longer than the petioles, bearing about 5 approximated flowers, on pedicels 

 scarcely longer than the calyx, with ovate ciliated bracts at their base, J line long; 

 sepals obtusely ovate, small ; tube of corolla 7 lines long, cylindrical, a little swollen 

 about the middle, segments oblong, shorter than the tube, puberulous on both sides ; 

 stamens inserted near the middle of the tube; anthers sagittate, subcoherent at the 

 base ; disk agglutinated to the base of 2 ovaries free above. A species said to be near 

 T. oblongifoUa. 



Anacampta*- 



A genus distinguished by its stoutish angular branches, always more or less fistulous ; 

 leaves generally large, oblong, rigidly chartaceous, upon stoutish petioles, flat above, 

 deeply and hoodingly fossate at the base, and conjoined across the node by a transverse 

 ridge ; short lateral panicles on a stout peduncle bearing abore several short branches, 

 each with flowers on short pedicels; calyx generally rather small; tube of corolla 

 cylindrical, stoutish, contracted below the middle at the insertion of the stamens, seo-- 

 ments rectangularly prolonged, f the length of the tube, their apices descending into the 

 tube in aestivation, as in Bonafomia; disk cylindrical, free, tubular, 5-sulcate, and 

 5-crenulate; follicles 2, divergent, much compressed, dolabriform, smooth, each con- 

 taining several ovoid subcompressed seeds attached to the suture by fleshy funicles. 



* From kvaKdtmru, (introjkxo), from the singular introflexion of the segments of the corolla in estivation. ' 



