186 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACELJ:. 



he himseK indicated, and is probably that of an undescribed Schubertia, the plants of 

 which much resemble those of Amblycmthera. This species is confounded by Miiller 

 with his A. Fluniinensis; but the two species are very distinct. This has scandent, flexuous, 

 hirsutulous branches, the axils being S^-^^ in. apart ; leaves opposite, oblong, a little 

 narrower towards the base, where they are auriculately cordate and eglandulose, rather 

 suddenly acuminate at the summit, fuscous green above, opake, hirsutely pubescent, 

 with about 11 pairs of patently divaricate fine immersed nerves, yellowish brown and 

 opake, beneath more densely hirto-pubescent (with simple hairs), more especially on the 

 scarcely prominulent midrib and nerves, 3-4 in. long (including the basal lobes 2 lines 

 deep), l|-lf in. broad, on rather slender patent pubescent petioles 6 lines long ; raceme 

 lateral at the nodes, 3 in. long, hirsutulous, on a somewhat patent peduncle bare at the 

 base for 1 inch, bearing above about 6 alternate flowers on stoutish tomentous pedicels 

 3 lines long, each supported by an oblong elliptic stipate bract acuminate at the 

 summit, hirsutulous, 9 liues long, 4 lines broad ; sepals narrowly subulate, lanceolate, 

 membranaceous, smooth inside, tomentous, with white hairs outside, 8 lines long, 1 line 

 broad at the base, ciliate on the margins, with an inner multilacinulate scale ; corolla 

 scarlet, niveo-lanate in the bud ; tube afterwards sparsely pubescent, yellowish within, 

 cylindrical, campanulate above the middle, 9-10 Unes long; segments dolabriform, 

 acute at one angle, plicately crenate along the margin, reddish yellow, subglabrous, 

 5 lines long and broad ; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube, upon 5 densely 

 lanate niveous lines ; anthers 1 hne long, with a scarlet connective pointed at the summit, 

 obtusely emarginate or shortly bilobed at the base, cohering in a cone round the cla- 

 vuncle ; disk half cleft into 5 emarginate lobes, shorter than the 2 pointed pubescent 

 ovaries ; foUicles torulously terete, very arcuate and conjoined at the apex, hirsute, 

 4fi in. long, 2 lines broad ; seeds many, pilose, oblong, compressed, 3 lines long, crowned 

 by an erect reddish coma 9 lines long. 



2. Amblyanthera Fluminensis, Miill. /. c. p. 148, tab. 45 (excl. syn.). In prov. Rio de Janeiro ad 

 Oliveira, in Serra de Macacu et in mont. Organensibus : non vidi. 



A more lax species than the preceding, and confounded with it. It has fuscous flexuous 

 branches clothed with yellowish hispid hairs, the axils being 6-6J in. apart; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, gradually narrower below the middle, auriculately cordate at the base, 

 truncate and mucronate at the apex, or with a short, rather blunt acumen, submem- 

 branaceous, above green, opake, subpilose on both sides, ciliate on the margins, with 

 15 pairs of subascending nerves, beneath reddish, opake, patently hispidulous along the 

 prominulent midrib and nerves, 3:^6 in. long, l|-2f in. broad, on hirsute petioles 3-4;^ 

 lines long ; a lateral raceme at the nodes, densely pubescent, 4 in. long, on a thickish 

 peduncle bare below for 2 in., bearing upwards 6 or 7 alternate flowers about 3 lines 

 apart, on pedicels 3 lines long, supported by as many foliaceous bracts, rhomboidally ovate, 

 subacute at the base, narrowly acuminate, pubescent, 9 lines long, 4 liaes broad ; sepals 

 subulately lanceolate, externally pilose, ciliate on the margins, 5 lines long, 1 line broad 

 at the base, each with an internal semicircular denticulate scale ; a handsome corolla, 

 niveo-pUose outside ; tube cylindrical below the middle, campanular above, 13 lines long ; 



