182 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACEiE. 



anthers dorsally hispid ; disk urceolate, submembranaceous on the margin, which is cre- 

 nulate, exceeding the 2 acutely ovoid ovaries. 



24. Angadenia CubensiSj nob. : Echites Cubensis, Griseb. in Revis. PI. Cub. Cat, No. 1887. In Cuba : 

 V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Cuba (Wright 2955). 



A species very near A. Iiindenicma ; a subscandent plant, with more remote axil s ; 

 leaves roundish, scarcely cordate, acute, dark green above, with paler margins, pallid 

 brown beneath, with immersed nerves If-lf in. long, 7-8 lines broad, on petioles 1 Une 

 long ; inflorescence not stated ; sepals acute, with 2 small acute inner scales ; tube of 

 corolla 7 lines long, narrow below the middle, widening upwards ; segments dolabriform, 

 dextrorsely convolute, 6 lines long, 5 lines broad, unequally expanded ; stamens inserted 

 in the contraction of the tube ; anthers glabrous, acute, shortly 2-lobed at the base, on 

 shortish pilose filaments ; disk tubular, subcorneal, submembranaceous, 5-sulcate. 



25. Angadenia Pbieurii, nob. : Echites Prieurii, A. DC. I. c. p. 458 : Amblyanthera Prieurii, Miill. in 



Linn. xxx. p. 448. In Guiana GaUica (Le Prieur 241) : non vidi. 



A species with tortuous, scabridly pubescent branches ; leaves elliptic, subcordate, 

 acuminate, coriaceous, very glabrous, shining above, velutinous beneath, 3 in. long, 14- 

 16 lines broad, on petioles 2 lines long ; peduncle shorter than the leaves, bearing many 

 densely congested flowers, on pedicels a little shorter than the calyx; sepals acutely 

 ovate, puberulous outside, each with an inner obtuse scale ; coroUa hypocrateriform, gla- 

 brous; tube narrowly cylindrical, contracted in the mouth, 10-11 lines long, with a 

 ring of retrorse hairs above the middle ; segments half as long as the tube ; stamens in- 

 serted in the pUose ring ; anthers acute ; disk urceolate, nearly entire or undulate on 

 the margin ; follicles 2, erect, torulose, glabrous, 3-4 in. long ; seeds with a rufescent 

 coma. 



26. Angadenia pandukata, nob. : Echites pandurata, A. DC. /. c. p. 458 : Amblyanthera pandurata 

 Miill. in Linn. xxx. p. 448. Ad Oaxaca (Andrieux 245) : non vidi. 



A species with pubescent branches; leaves fiddle-shaped, lower portion broader and 

 cordate, shortly acuminate, pubescent, membranaceous, undulate, hoary beneath, 2-4 in. 

 long, 1 j-2 in. broad, on petioles 6-9 hnes long ; racemes shorter than the leaves, simple, 

 pubescent, bearing many fiowers on pedicels 3 lines long ; sepals obtusely ovate ; corolla 

 li in. long, glabrous ; tube narrowly cylindrical, a little swollen above ; segments half 

 its length ; stamens inserted on a pilose ring at the contraction of the tube ; anthers ob- 

 tusely bilobed at the base ; disk cylindrical, 5 -striate, shorter than the ovaries. 



Peeictenia*. 



This genus is proposed for a handsome Peruvian plant of Spruce's collection, distri- 

 buted under the name of JEcUtes stipellaris. This approaches Dipladema in habit ; its 

 axils are furnished with a pectiniform ring of long stipules, as in Mcmdevilla ; the seg- 

 ments of the corolla are elongated horizontally, and introplicate in aestivation, so that 

 their tips descend into and far below the mouth of the tube, as in Bonafousia. 



• From wepi (drcum), ktcis (peeten), from the pectinifomi ring of stipules at the nodes. 



