136 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



membranaceis, nervoso-reticulatisj tubi longitudine, aestivatione dextrorsum convolutis : folliculis 2, 

 teretibus, arcuatis, apice nexis, seminibus ut in S. ovata. In Brasilia, prov.Rio de Janeiro, ad 

 Cantagallo : v. v. et sicca in herb, meo (4055), inflore etfructu, montibus Organensibus. 



The fistular branches 2| lines thick, narrow, curvingly upwards, with axils 6 in. apart ; 

 leaves S^-S ia. long, 2|— 4 in. broad, on reflexed petioles 12-15 lines long, inserted 1 m. 

 above the basal margin ; raceme 1-2 in. long ; peduncle flexuose, 1 in. long, bearing 6 

 alternate flowers on pedicels 4-6 lines long, bibracteolate ia the middle; bracteoles 

 linear, 2-3 lines long ; sepals spathulately linear, subobtuse, 5 lines long, 1 line broad ; 

 tube of corolla greenish red, 16 lines long ; segments pale rose-colour, 8 lines long, 5 lines 

 broad ; fructiferous peduncle, thickened, 1 in. long, supporting 2 arching follicles (not 

 arrived at haK their maturity) 4 in. long, 2 lines broad. 



Specimens of this plant were sent to Miiller from Cantagalla, by Peckholt, the seeds 

 of which were figured by the former under EcMtes peltata. The soft flexible coma of 

 these seeds are gathered by the natives and called painha de penna, being used as a 

 substitute for feather-down, samples of which were shown in the London International 

 Exhibition in 1862. 



6. Stipecoma macrocalyx, nob.: Echites macrocalyx, Miill. I. c. p. 160. In prov. Bahia (Blanchet, 



SeUo 1665) : non vidi. 



A species near that figured by Velloz, growing in damp shady places. Its branches are 

 ferruginously tomentous ; its large leaves are broadly ovate, with a short cuspidate 

 acumen, peltately fixed on long petioles, subcoriaceous, above fuscous green, and slightly 

 pubescent, below ochraceously fuscous, opake, densely tomentous on the nerves, which 

 are arcuately conjoined within the margin; they are said to be larger than those of 

 S. speciosa, nob. The opposite racemes, scarcely longer than the petioles, bear 2 or 3 

 greenish-yeUow fl^owers, each pedicel supported by 2 bracts, all as long as the calyx ; 

 sepals oblong-ovate, acute, erect, membranaceous, ferruginously pubescent, l-lj in. 

 long, each with an inner deeply multUaciniate basal scale ; corolla glabrous, 2f in. long ; 

 tube stout, cylindrical, campanulate in the mouth ; segments half its length, broadly 

 ovate or subrotund ; anthers hairy behind ; lobes of disk free, as long as the 2 tomen- 

 tous ovaries. 



7. Stipecoma speciosa, nob.: scandens, ramulis crassiusculis, fistulosis, striatis, ferrugineo-tomentosis, . 



axillis dilatato-compressis : foliis profunde peltatis, oblongo-obovatis, imo orbiculatis et undulato- 

 plicatis, apice subito acuminatis, coneavis, molliter crassiusculis, marginibus subrevolutis, supra 

 fusco-viridibus, opacis, obsolete puberulis, nervis 7 basalibus radiantibus, lateraUbus utrinque 8 

 recte divergentibus, cunctis intra marginem arcuatim nexis, prominuUs, subtus ocbraceo-pallidi- 

 oribusj opacis, subtomentosis, costa nervisque nifalis, venis tenuissimis transversis immersis ; 

 petiolis crassiusculis, tomentosis, teretibus, longiusculis, flexuosis, deflexis : paniculis axillaribus, 

 petiolo 2plo longioribus ; pedunculo petiolum aequante, apice 3-ramoso, ramis fastigiato-plurifloris, 

 multibracteatis j bracteis linearibus; pedicellis ad medium lineari-bibracteolatis j sepalis lineari- 

 lanceolatis, quam pedicelli vix brevioribus, erectis, membranaceis, sparse puberulis ; corolla speciosa, 

 flava, glabra ; tubo cylindrico, crassiusculo, quam sepali 2plo longiore^ bine valde constricto, supeme 

 subcampanulato ; segmentis tubum sequantibus dolabriformibus, venosis, expansis, aestivatione dex- 



