190 ON SOrTH-AMEETCAJSr APOCTNACE^. 



a retrorsely pilose ring ; disk cup-shaped, half-cleft into 5 lobes, nearly as long as the 

 glabrous oblong-ovoid ovaries. 



10. Ambltanthera Fendleri, Miill. I. c. p. 417. In Venezuela, prope Tovax (Fendler 1032) : non vidi. 

 A species, from its densely bracteate brush-like raceme, evidently belonging to this 



genus, with which it agrees in its other characters. It has griseo-pubescent branches, 

 darkish branchlets 1-1| line thick ; leaves narrow-lanceolate, cordate at the base, gra- 

 dually acuminate, rigidly membranaceous, palish green above, glabrous, shining, with 

 9-12 pairs of diverging straight nerves arcuately conjoined, veinless, cano-pubescent 

 beneath, 2|-3^ in. long, 7-9J lines broad, on petioles 1 J-3 lines long ; racemes axillary, 

 a little longer than the leaves, on a short peduncle bearing many dense flowers on alter- 

 nate pedicels, thicker above, 3 limes long, the lower ones caducous, supported by linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate bracts 5 lines long; sepals ovate-acuminate, puberulous, each 

 with an inner oblong lacinulate scale ; corolla in the whole If in. long ; tube narrowly 

 cylindrical for two thirds its length, campanulate above, pilose ; segments shorter, 

 broadly ovate ; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube ; disk 5-cleft, as long as 

 the smooth ovoid ovaries. 



11. Amblyanthera SpruceanAj Miill. Fl. Br. xxvi. p. 143 : Echites Javitensis, Benth. (non Kunth) MSS. 



Prope Panure, Rio.Ualiupes (Spruce 2863): non vidi. 



It is an erect plant, with glabrous, rigid, angular branches, and subtomentellous 

 branchlets ; leaves oblong-eUiptic, obtuse at the base, shortly acuminate, subcoriaceous, 

 fuscous green above, glabrous or scabridly hirtellous, with about 12 pairs of divergent 

 dark-red nerves and reticulated veins, sparsely subhirtellous beneath, 2f-3^ in. long, 1-lf 

 in. broad, on slender petioles 5-7 lines long ; raceme subterminal, in young state 2j in. 

 long, puberulous, with a simple, straight, stout peduncle 1^— If line thick, bearing many 

 densely spicate flowers, which are almost sessile, and supported by as many elongated, 

 carinately navicular bracts 9J lines long, with a long, incurved acumen ; sepal? If line 

 long, broadly ovate, obtuse, each with an inner, broad, unequally denticulate scale ; 

 corolla (yet in bud) 10^ lines long, tomentellous ; tube cylindrically contracted below 

 the middle, a little broader above ; segments insequilateral ; disk 5-cleft, nearly as long 

 as the ovaries. 



Species assigned to Amblyanthera by Muller, here excluded and referred to their 



proper places. 



(Indications : B. =Flor. Bras. fasc. xxvi. ; L. = Linnsea, vol. xxx.) 



A. acutiloba, L. 447 = Echites acutiloba. 



A. andina, L. 426 Echites andina. 



A. Andrieuxii, L. 422 Echites Andrieuxii. 



A. angustifolia, L. 447 Mesechites linearifolia. 



A. antennacea, L. 448 Laseguea antennacea. 



A. Benthami, L. 451 Somaladenia atigustifolia. 



A. Bogotenais, L. 452 Anartia 



