76 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



seated above the middle of the tube, their anthers free, biaristate at the base, their 

 acuminate summits nearly reaching the mouth; disk of 5 roundish membranaceous 

 lobes, connate below the margin, I the length of 2 free obovate ovaries ; style shortly 

 bifid at the base, simple above ; clavuncle thickish, submembranaceously expanded at its 

 base; 2 apical slender stigmata; 2 folHcles globosely oblong, divaricately reflexed, with 

 a recurved beak at the apex, l^ in. long, 10 lines broad, with numerous seeds, as in the 

 other species, half-immersed in fleshy funicles. 



This fine species bears all the characters of a Siemmadenia, and is extremely different 

 from a true TabernoBmontana. 



5. Stemmadenia iNsiGNis, nob. : Tabernosmontana laurifolia, ScHott, MS. (non Linn, nee Ker). Arbo- 



rescensj ramulis teretibus, pallidis, glabris^ striolatis : foliis oppositis, oblongis, utrinque acutis, 

 chartaceis, supra laete viridibus, opacis, sub lente minute granulosis, uervis plurimis, tenuibus, sub- 

 patenter divaricatis, semiimmersis, subtus pallidioribus, costa nervisque flavidis subprominulis ; 

 petiolis subtenuibus, limbo lOplo brevioribus : paniculis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, spicati- 

 floris ; pedicellis imo et apice braqteolatis, bracteis ovatis, sessilibus ; sepalis 5, majusculis, oblongis, 

 subpetaloideis, valde imbricatis, parallele nervosis, intus ad basin squamulis numerosissimis creber- 

 rimis munitis; corollas tubo elongato cylindrico, supra medium subinfundibuliformi ; limbi seg- 

 mentis inaequilateris, oblique rotundatis, valde expansis, in sestivatione sinistrorsum convolutis; 

 staminibus paullo infra medium tubi insertis, acuminatis, basi breviter 2-lobatis, subsessilibus ; 

 disco praecedentium, ovariis 2 acute ovatis circumdato ; stylo, clavuncula et stigmatibus generis. In 

 Mexico : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit, in Merida cult. (Scbott 430). 



A handsome species, near the preceding, cultivated in Merida under the name of 

 "laurel." Its branchlets are rather stout, with axils about J in. apart; the leaves are 

 3|-5^ in. long, lJ-2^ in. broad, on petioles 4-6 lines long ; peduncle less than 1 in. 

 long ; pedicels 9 lines long ; bracts roundish oblong, 2-3 lines long ; unequal sepals 

 6-8 linfes long, 2-3 lines broad ; tube of corolla 1|^ in. long, narrower at the base for the 

 length of 9 lines, somewhat funnel-shaped above, 1 in. broad in the mouth, 3 in. broad 

 at the expanded border; segments 1 in. long, fin. broad. The shape and size of the 

 follicles are not given ; but the seeds seem partially invested with a fleshy covering, as 

 the birds are said to devour them greedily. 



A figure of this species, and an analysis of its flower, are exhibited in Plate X. b. 



6. Stemmadenia Galeottiana, nob. : Odontostigma Galeottianum, Rich, in Sagra, Hist. Cub. xi. 868, 



tab. 56; Walp. Ann. v. 478. Cuba, circ. Havana in sylvis : non vidi. 



A tall tree, with slender dichotomous branchlets ; opposite leaves oblong, acute at the 

 base, summits acuminate, membranaceous, entire, with divergent nerves, 4+ in. long, 



2 in. broad, on petioles 4 lines long ; panicle terminal in the dichotomy of the branchlets, 

 bearing 3-6 large, handsome, yellow, odoriferous flowers ; peduncle 6 lines long ; pedicels 



3 lines long ; sepals 5, obtusely oblong, unequal in breadth, membranaceous, laxly im- 

 bricate, with a smaller oval bract at the base, and furnished inside with very numerous 

 lanceolate scales in 2 series ; corolla broadish-tubular, 2 in. long, narrower within the 

 calyx, the border-segments obliquely inequilateral, roundish, horizontally expanded, 

 1 in. long and broad, sinistrorsely convolute in aestivation; stamens acute, obtusely 



