196 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



8. EcHiTES MEMBRANACEA, A. DC. I. c. p. 457. In Peruvia (Pavon) : non vidi. 



A plant "wltli straight, elongated, tomentous branches ; leaves oval, cordate, acutely 

 mucronate, very membranaceous, puberulous above, with several prominent glands along 

 the midrib, hirsutulous beneath, especially on the nerves and veins, 3 in. long, 1^ in- 

 broad, on petioles 5 lines long ; raceme lateral, tomentous, 5 in. long, bearing many 

 alternate flowers on pedicels 3 lines long ; sepals ovate, subulate, 4 lines long, gibbous 

 at the base, with an inner acute scale ; tube of corolla 9 lines long, hirsute ; segments 

 glabrous, obovate-oblong ; disk quinquefid, with obtuse lobes, somewhat shorter than 

 the ovaries. 



A species near M hirtiflora. 



9. EcHiTES CHLORANTHA, Schl. in Linn. xxvi. p. 663. In Venezuela, prope Maiquetia : v. s. pi. fructif. 



in herb, meo, sine loco, forsan Caraccas (Cockbum) . 



Schlectendahl describes this species as a shrub, 10 feet high, with verrucose terete 

 branches and glabrous branchlets, subhirsute when young ; leaves broadly ovate, obtuse 

 at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, glabrous, with subrevolute margins, nearly 

 concolorous, sulcate on the midrib, the base of which is furnished with 2 erect, subulate, 

 fleshy glands, midrib and nerves prominent beneath, 3-4 in. long, IJ-Sg in. broad, on 

 sulcate petioles 6-9 lines long ; panicle lateral, on a thick peduncle 1-3 lines long, 

 divided into 2 short branches beariag several flowers on glabrous, spirally twisted pedi- 

 cels 4 lines long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, ciliate, imbricate, 3 luies long, with an inner 

 basal emarginated or lacinulate scale; tube of corolla rufescent, cyliadrical, 8 liaes 

 long, slightly swollen below the middle more constricted portion, narrowly campanulate 

 above, with a border of shortish segments of a greenish hue, acutely and horizontally 

 extended or subreflected ; stamens inserted in. the pilose contraction of the tube ; disk 

 of 5 obtuse, fleshy lobes, as long as the ovaries ; follicles 2, terete, 8 in. long, 2 lines thick, 

 glabrous ; seeds 6 lines long, acute at both ends, puberulous, with a coma of reddish soft 

 hairs 10 lines long. 



In the fructiferous plant the branches are stout, with opposite, spreading, flexuose 

 branchlets 1 Hne thick, tapering upwards, rugously striolate and lenticeUate, with axUs 

 3 in. apart, charged with several glandular stipules ; the leaves are of the same size and 

 shape as those of Schlectendahl's plant, agreeing in all respects, except that the petioles 

 do not exceed a length of 6 lines ; the peduncle is 3 lines long, bifurcate, each division 

 bearing 2 horizontally divergent terete follicles, striolate, densely lenticeUate, 7^ in. long, 

 3 lines thick, tapering to an obtuse apex 2 lines broad, slightly arcuate ; seeds dorsally 

 striolate, flat on the ventral face, with a longitudinal raphe 6 lines long, and an apical 

 rufescent coma 10 lines long. 



It is a species near EcMtes acvminata, B/. & P. 



10. EcHiTES GtANDULOSA, R. & P. Fl. Per. ii. p. 19, tab. 135 : Hamadictyon glandulosum, A. DC. I. c. 

 p. 427 : Prestonia Peruviana, Spr. Syst. i. p. 637. In Peruvia ad Munas : non vidi. 



A climbing plant, with tomentous branchlets ; axils 3-6 in. apart, having at the 

 nodes several subulate fleshy glands in the place of interpetiolar stipules ; leaves ovate, 



