X14 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



stout petioles 3 lines long; terminal panicle sessile, trifidly brancMng from its base, 

 each branch on a peduncle |-1 ia. long, bearing 3 yeUow flowers, on pedicels 3 lines 

 long, supported by liaear bracts ; sepals acutely oblong, 6 lines long ; tube of corolla 

 2| iu. long, narrowed below the middle, campanularly expanding above; segments 

 rhomboidally dolabriform, IJ in. long and broad. There are indications in the rough 

 drawing of the long setiform expansions of the anthers. According to Lunan, the leaves 

 are poisonous and acrid, and the disk of 5 lobes tridentate at the apex. 



7. Chariomma scandens, nob. : Apocynum scandens flora nerii albo, Plum. Descr. Plants Amer. p. 82, 

 tab. 96. In insul. S. Domingo et Martinico : non vidi. 



A lactescent, sarmentaceous shrub, with opposite cinereous branches 2 lines thick, 

 with axils 4;|-5j in. apart ; leaves opposite, oblong, gradually narrower towards the base 

 and decurrent on the petiole, roundish above and suddenly terminating in a short 

 mucronate point, entire, rigidly chartaceous, bright green above, with about 15 pairs of 

 parallel patent arching nerves, darker beneath, 2^3^ in. long, Ij-l^ in. broad, on 

 petioles 5-6 lines long; raceme lateral, on a peduncle |— Ij in. long, bearing on its 

 summit 3-4 verticUlate flowers, or more often a solitary flower by abortion; bracts 

 short, linear; pedicels 6 lines long; sepals oblong, subacute, 3 lines long; tube of 

 corolla 2 in. long, contracted below the middle, funnel-shaped above, of a reddish 

 colour; segments white, dolabriform, uncinate at one angle, 12 lines long, 9 lines 

 broad; follicles terete, parallel, erect, acute, 8 in. long, 1^ line thick, subconjoined at 

 the apex ; seeds many, clothed on their surface with dark reddish soft hairs. 



Although so little of the floral structure is known, it is manifest from its habit, its 

 large handsome corolla like that of an oleander, with broad dolabriform segments 

 uncinate on one angle, that it belongs to this genus, with which it agrees in the 

 character of its follicles, as indicated by Swartz. The exserted appendages of the 

 anthers are seen in Plunder's rough figure, by error 8 in number. It is a species evi- 

 dently congeneric with his Apocymmi scandens, last described. 



Elttuopus. 



A genus established in 1860, by Dr. MiiUer, upon the JEchites pubescens. Hook, and 

 Arn., a plant from Chile, and which comprises few species. These are mostly shrubs, 

 with opposite, ovate or elliptic leaves, upon short petioles, and very short, few-flowered 

 axillary panicles; they bear 2 compressed linear follicles, with several imbricated seeds, 

 without any apical coma, which are much flattened, clothed above the middle with 

 many ascending soft hairs, which extend far beyond the apex, and are peltately attached 

 in the middle to intruding placentae. Each seed contains an embryo in thin albumen, 

 with foliaceous cotyledons, and a terfete radicle of the same length. 



1. Elyteopps pubescens, nob. : Echites pubescens, Hook. & Arn. (non R. & Sch.) Bot. Beechy Voy. 

 p. 34: Journ. Bot. i. 286 : Elytropm Chilensis, Miill. (in parte), in Linn. xxx. 440. In Chile: v. s. 

 in herb, meo (n. 20758), Valdivia (Bridges 661) . 



A species much stouter than the others following, which have been confounded with 



