172 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACILE. 



having scandent, hirsutulous branches ; leaves ovate-oblong or linear-oblong, rounded or 

 subcordate at the base, acute or shortly cuspidate at the apex, glaucous green above, 

 ciliate on the margins, 3-3^ in. long, 10-18 lines broad, on ciliate petioles 2 lines long ; 

 raceme terminal, elongate, few-flowered ; pedicels 6-8 lines long ; bracts cuspidately 

 lanceolate, 3 lines long ; sepals 3^-4^ lines long, with 2 approximate bidentate inner 

 scales ; tube of the corolla narrowed below for half its length, funnel-shaped above, 2 in. 

 long ; segments oblong, inequilateral ; stamens inserted at the constriction of the tube ; 

 disk urceolate, denticulate on the margin, nearly concealing 2 ovate-oblong ^varies. 



10. Anisolobtjs psidiifolius, nob. : Echites psidiifolia,'Maxt., Stadelm. in Rat. PL (1841), Beibl. 46; 



A. DC. l. c. p. 453 ; Miill. l. c. p. 160. In Brasilia, prov. Bahia : non vidi. 



This species is placed here because of its large unequal sepals and other conformable 

 characters. It has pubescent branches with remote stipular axils ; narrow oblong leaves 

 shortly acuminate, subcordate at the base, pubescent, 2-2^ in. long, 10-15 lines broad, 

 the petioles being 2 lines long ; several flowers aggregated upon a peduncle 1 J in, long ; 

 pedicels ebracteolate, 3-4 lines long ; sepals oblong, truncate, membranaceous, 

 pubescent, ciliate, 4-6 lines long, 3-4 lines broad, with as many internal, broad, denti- 

 culate scales ; cylindrical tube of corolla 8-10 lines long ; segments dolabriform, roundish; 

 stamens inserted in the middle of the tube ; anthers rigid, acute, shortly bilobed at the 

 base ; disk urceolate, 5-grooved, as long as the ovaries. 



11 . Anisolobus puncticulostjs, Miq. Stirp. Surin. p. 158 ; Walp. Ann. iii. 37 : Echites puncticulosa, Ricli. 



in Act. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1792, p. 107 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 473. In Suiinam et Cayenne : non vidi. 



A shrub with obtusely 4-angled verruculose branches, having short, ovate, deciduous 

 stipules at the nodes ; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, with a short, broad, emarginate 

 acumen, coriaceous, with about 5 pairs of nerves, reticulate, petiolate ; panicle terminal, 

 shortly puberulous, on a peduncle bearing several approximate flowers ; sepals broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, outer ones puberulent, inner ones somewhat longer, more scarious, and 

 subglabrous ; disk urceolate, contracted at the obsoletely repand-denticulate margin. 



12. Anisolobus HosTMANNi, Miq. Stirp. Surin. p. 159; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 38. In Surinam: non vidi. 

 A shrub, with subcylindrical branches, roughly verruculose, with deciduous stipules ; 



leaves elliptic, . subobtuse at both ends, coriaceous, with nerves and reticulate veins, 

 petiolate ; panicle axillary or terminal, shorter than the leaves, puberulous, on a short 

 peduncle ; sepals ovate, obtuse, puberulous, outer ones somewhat shorter, inner ones 

 more glabrous, each with an inner bifid scale ; corolla 2^ in. long, its tube slender, 

 subcampanulate above the middle ; segments roundish-ovate. 



13. Anisolobus Fockei, Miq. Stirp. Surin. p. 159; Walp. Ann. iii. 38. In Surinam : non vidi. 



A shrub with obtusely tetragonous, verruculous branches, with several ciliate, seti- 

 form deciduous stipules ; leaves ovate-elliptic or oblong, acute at the base, obtusely 

 acuminate, the larger ones subinequilateral, subcoriaceous, obliquely nerved and reticu- 

 late, petiolate ; panicles axillary, mostly opposite, the lower ones with a long, the upper 

 ones with a shorter peduncle, trichotomously divided, puberulous ; flowers pedicellate, 



