82 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACEiE. 



5. Anartia flavicans, nob. : Taberncmontana flavicans, R. & Sch. Syst. iv. 797 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 375 



Miill. I. c. p. 77 (excl. synon.), tab, 25. fig. 1 : Tabermsmontana levigata, Mart. In Brasilia (Hofl&n. 



in herb. Willd.) : non vidi. 



Miiller states that the Feschiera latifolia (Spruce 236), from Santarem, is identical 



with Willdenow's plant. Spruce's plant and Miiller's drawing are now placed before me 



side by side ; and I can pronounce them to be distinct, not only in a specific point of view, 



but that they belong to two different genera. Miiller's copious description of TaberncB- 



montana flavicans is therefore of no value, as the characters are mainly derived from 



Spruce's plant. We have no trustworthy evidence in regard to the species in question, 



except the short character of this plant as quoted by De Candolle ; to this we may add 



Miiller's plate 26, above mentioned, which appears to have been made from Willdenow's 



typical specimen, which coincides sufficiently well with the original description. Erom 



these two sources the following diagnosis is drawn up. Miiller gives no analysis of the 



flower ; it is therefore probable that he never saw the specimen, and that he obtained his 



drawing from some other source. 



It has very slender, dichotomous, erect branclilets, with axUs ^IJ in. apart; the 

 opposite leaves, of equal length, are very lanceolate, very acute at the base, with a 

 gradually narrowing blunted acumen, 2-2^ in. long, 4-5 lines broad, on slender petioles 

 2^3 lines long ; the lateral raceme has a peduncle bare at the base for 6 lines, bearing 

 3-4 alternate flowers above, on bracteolated pedicels 3-4 lines long ; sepals acute ; tube 

 of corolla 1 in. long, narrowly cylindrical, IJ line thick, swelling below the mouth to a 

 breadth of 2 lines; segments oblong, when expanded 1 in. long, 5 lines broad ; stamens 

 included and inserted in the constriction, at f the length of the tube. These characters 

 are obviously those of Anartia ; and the species closely approaches A. recurva. 



6. Anartia flavescens, nob. : Tabernamontana flavescens, S.. & Sch. Syst. iv. 797 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 375. 



In Brasilia : non vidi. 



A species evidently near the preceding, with broader, more shortly acuminate, oblong 

 leaves 2 in. long ; an axillary peduncle, bracteolated, 2 lines long, bearing subumbellate 

 flowers on filiform pedicels 1 in. long ; the flowers less than 6 lines long. 



7. Anartia Bogotbnsis, nob. : Echites Boffotensis, H. B. K. iii. 215, tab. 243 j A. DC. /. c. p. 474 : 



Amblyanthera Boffotensis, Miill. Linn. xxx. 452. In Ecuador, Santa Fe de Bogota : non vidi. 



A species certainly not belonging to Amblyanthera. It is a scandent plant, with 

 straightish, terete, striated, canescently subpubescent branches, with axils 1^2 in. apart ; 

 leaves oblong, rounded or obsoletely cordate at the base, acuminate, submembrana- 

 ceous, with entire or subrevolute margins, green and glabrous above, with 2 bifid fleshy, 

 glabrous glands superposed at the base of the midrib, reticulately veined, beneath 

 densely glauco-farinaceous and subpubescent, 2J in. long, 11-14 lines broad, on chan- 

 nelled puberulent petioles 3 lines long ; 2 opposite racemes, 2J in. long, including a 

 short peduncle 2-3fid at the base, each branch bearing several alternate flowers the size 

 of those of Vinca minor, on pedicels 4-5 lines long, supported by an acute bract ^ line 

 long; sepals acute, oblong, imbricated, glabrous, with as many alternate inner trifid 



