194 ON 80UTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACILE. 



long, with as many basal bracteoles ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, 1^ line 

 long ; tube of coroUa narrowly cylindrical at tlie base and at the summit, where it is 

 spirally twisted, subventricose in the middle, subsericeo-puberulous within, 18 lines long ; 

 segments obovate-oblong, inequilateral, crispate on the margin; 6. lines long, 4 lines 

 broad, expanded, with dextrorse convolution ; stamens seated on a pilose ring at the 

 lower constriction of the tube 6 lines above the base ; filaments very short ; anthers 

 linear, sagittate, acuminate, with two obtuse parallel basal prongs ; disk of 5 linear 

 emarginate lobes, half as long as the 2 glabrous ovate ovaries ; follicles 2, patently diva- 

 ricate, in the immature state 3 iu. long, and then obsoletely torulose, afterwards perhaps 

 longer and straighter ; seeds many, comose. 



4. EcHiTES LONGiFLORAj uob. : EcMtes umbellata, var. hngifiora, Griseb. in PI. Cub. Wr. p. 520 ; Cat. 



PI. Cub. No. 34. In Cuba: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Cuba (C. Wright 1661). 



A distinct climbing species, distinguished by its solitary axillary flower ; its twining 

 branchlets are slender, with axils 3 in. apart; leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, narrowed 

 towards the base, and there obtuse, with a recurving channelled acute acumen, green 

 above, with about 16 pairs of subimmersed divergent nerves arcuately conjoined, yel- 

 lowish opake beneath, with prominulent slender nerves and reticulated veins, 3f in. 

 long, 1^ in. broad, on recurving petioles 6 lines long ; inflorescence axillary, 1-flowered, 

 on a very slender erect peduncle l:^ in. long, pluribracteolate at the base, continuous 

 with the pedicel, which is ^ in. long; sepals acutely lanceolate, erect, 1^ line long; 

 corolla of a greenish-yellow colour; tube 20 lines long, narrowly cylindrical above 

 and at the base, ventricose in the middle; segments obovate-oblong, inequilateral, 

 5-8 lines long, 4 lines broad ; foUicles 2, terete, horizontally divaricate, 3 in, long, nearly 

 2 Hnes thick. 



5. EcHixES LUTEA, Veil. Fl. Flum. p. 109, Icon. iii. tab. 25 ; A. DC. /. c. p. 467 j Miill. I. c. p. 159. In 



Brasilia prov. Rio de Janeiro, versus Itagoahy : v. s. in herb, meo (Claussen, sine loco) . 



This specimen agrees with the drawing of Velloz. It is a scandent species, very near 

 JS. timbellata, has slender, flexuose, subhispidulous branches, with thickened axils 5 in. 

 apart, having 3 obtuse glands on each face across the nodes, half-concealed by the hairs ; 

 the opposite leaves are deflected, oblong-lanceolate, narrowed at the base and there sub- 

 obtuse, sharply acute at the summit, chartaceous, with very revolute margins, scabridly 

 hirsute above, with divergent arching nerves, beneath ferruginously opake, pubescent 

 and patently hirsute along the midrib and nerves, 6-7 in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, on re- 

 flexed petioles 5-6 lines long ; raceme lateral, on a suddenly deflected puberulous peduncle 

 1 in. long, divided above into 2 branches bearing many approximate or subumbellate 

 flowers, on bracteolate pubescent pedicels 9 lines long ; sepals acuminate, subpilose 

 outside, margins membranaceous, 2 Hnes long ; tube of corolla 16 lines long, narrowly 

 cylindrical at its base for half its length, widening above, and there spirally twisting as 

 in E. vmhellata, sparsely pilose ; segments rhomboidaUy dolabriform, 8 lines long, with 

 subcrenulate margins ; stamens seated on the constriction of the tube ; anthers acumi- 

 nate, shortly bifurcate at the base ; disk of 5 fleshy lobes, 2 lines long, equal to 2 ovate 

 ovaries. 



