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seated on a densely lanate ring in the contraction of the tube; anthers cohering, 

 3 lines long, acuminate, acutely biaristate at the base ; disk urceolate, denticulate 

 on the inargia, shorter than the 2 pointed ovaries ; style slender, 10 lines long ; 

 clavuncle incrassate, membranaceous at its base; follicles horizontally divergent, fusi- 

 formly terete, glabrous, 5J in. long, 3^ lines thick ; seeds numerous, 4J lines long, with 

 an erect apical coma 15 lines long. 



7. Anisolobus Zuccarinianus, nob. : Echites Zuccariniana, Stadelm. Bot. Zeit. 1841, p. 76; A. DC. I. c. 



p. 471 : Anisolobus hebecarpus, var. eredus, Miill. I. c. p. 112. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz et Cuyaba : 

 non vidi. 



A shrub much less in height than Spruce's plant, with narrower pubescent leaves on 

 shorter petioles, and tomentous inflorescence. It has stoutish, softly pubescent branches, 

 with axils 1 in. apart, having 2 acute stipules on each face ; opposite leaves erect, oblong- 

 elliptic, cordate at the base, shortly cuspidate and mucronate at the apex, chartaceous, 

 puberulous above, velutinous beneath, with prominent costa, nerves, and transversely 

 reticulated veins, 2|— 5 in. long, lf-2J in. broad, on petioles 1-4 lines long,; panicle 

 lateral, covered with yellowish or whitish tomentum, densely many-flowered ; pedicels 

 niveous, 6-8 lines long ; bracts ovate, acute, 1-1 J line long ; sepals oblong, very unequal, 

 obtuse, membranaceous, pubescent, ciliate, 4-6 lines long, with an inner, bidentate, 

 subulate scale ; tube of corolla 16 lines long, narrowly cylindrical for half its length, 

 funnel-shaped above, tomentous within ; segments subunguiculate, deltoid, very inequi- 

 lateral, with an uncinate tooth on the sinister angle, 9 lines long, 9 lines broad, with a 

 falciform expansion,' dextrorsely convolute ; stamens inserted in the contraction of the 

 tube ; anthers cohering, cuspidate, biaristate at the base ; disk urceolate, crenately denti- 

 culate on the margin, concealing the 2 subglobose ovaries; follicles teretely fusiform, 

 densely pubescent. 



8. Anisolobtts pulcherrimus, nob. : Echites pulcherrima, Pohl, in Icon. Sel. : Anisolobus hebecarpus, 



var. scandens, Miill. /. c. p. 112, tab. 33. fig. 2. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz ad Coralinba (Pohl 1383) : 

 non vidi. 



A shrub with an erect short pubescent stem, with glabrous, flexuous, slender, sub- 

 prostrate branches ; leaves elliptic, cordate at the base, shortly cuspidate, softly puberulous 

 above, velutinous beneath, 4^5 in. long, 2|- in. broad, on petioles 4 lines long; raceme 

 lateral or terminal, bearing many alternately approximate flowers, on pedicels 6-8 lines 

 long ; bracts ovate, 1-1,^ line, long ; sepals oblong, very obtuse, membranaceous, unequal, 

 3|-4| lines long, very imbricate, each with an inner basal 2-denfate scale; tube,, of 

 corolla 15 lines long, narrowly cylindrical at the base for half its length, swelling above ; 

 segments rhpniboid-obovate, acutely dolabriform, subcrispate ; stamens seated in the 

 contraction of the tube; anthers cohering, acuminate, biaristate at the base; disk 5 

 fleshy, sulca-te lobes, crenulate on the margin. 



9. Anisoi.obus Pohlianus, nob. : Echites Pohliana, Stadelm. Bot. Zeit. 1841, p. 73 ; A. DC. /. c. p. 47*0. 



In 'Brasilia, pi'ov. Minas Geraes : non vidi. ^ ' 



' A species' near the precfedihg',' being a lotv ^hrtib with a glabrous stern l8 iiil high, 



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