198 ON SOTJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACEiE. 



bracteolate pedicels 7-10 lines long; sepals linear-oblong, acute, imbricate, furnished 

 within at their base with a dense row of small lanceolate scales ; large handsome yeUow 

 corolla ; tube 2 in., long, cylindrical for half its length, funnel-shaped above, and 6 lines 

 wide in the mouth; segments oblong, horizontally expanded and curvingly pointed, 

 dextrorsely convolute ; stamens fixed in the middle of the tube ; disk of 5 free lobes, 

 much shorter than the 2 acutely oblong ovaries ; style filiform ; clavuncle incrassate, 

 with 2 short subulate stigmata. 



13. EcHiTES suBSAGiTTATA, R. & P. (non Griscb.) I. c. p. 19 ; A. D.C. I. c. p. 475. In Peruvia ad Cu- 

 chero : non i 



A climbing, glabrous species, with very long, granulose, reddish, branching stem ; 

 branches flUform, with many close stipuloid glands about the axUs ; opposite leaves 

 oblong, subsagittate at the base, acuminate, with ciliated margins, glanduliferous near 

 the sinus below, and on short pubescent petioles ; raceme short, lateral, few-flowered ; 

 pedicels with a small deciduous bracteole at the base ; sepals acute. 



A species near the preceding. The plant under this name, from Trinidad, with toru- 

 lose follicles, vaguely considered by Grisebach (Fl. Br. W. Ind. p. 413) to be the same 

 as E. hirsuta, H. B. K., is the Echites microcalyx, A. DC. 



14. Echites hirsttta, R. & P. I. c. p. 19, tab. 136 : Echites Pavonii, A. D.C. I. c. p. 463 : Prestonia 

 hirsuta, Spr. Syst. iv. 637. In Peruvia ad S. Antonio de playa grande, Chieoplaya: non 



A climbing species with extremely slender^ twisting, hirsute branches, with several 

 slender interpetiolar glands ; leaves oblong-ovate, acuminate, shortly cordate at their 

 base, and furnished with 1 or 2 oblong acute glands at the sinus, densely villous below, 

 4-4J in. long, 2-2J in. broad, on villous petioles 5 lines long ; raceme lateral, 5-6 in. 

 long, with many alternate yellow flowers, on pedicels 5 lines long, with lanceolate bracts 

 4 lines long ; sepals acute, 3 lines long ; tube of coroUa 1 J in. long, contracted in the 

 middle ; segments obliquely oblong, 1 in. long, expanded ; stamens shortish, seated in 

 the middle of the tube ; anthers cohering ; disk of 5 lobes, half as long as the 2 ovaries ; 

 follicles 2, subacutely terete, subadhering at the apex, 4-5 in. long, 1^ line thick; 

 seeds with an apical coma. 



This must not be confounded with the Echites hirsuta of Richard, or that of Velloz. 



15. Echites acutiloba, A. DC. I. c. p. 451. In Peruvia: non vidi. 



A climbing plant, with slender glabrous branchlets ; leaves oblong, cordate, acuminate, 

 membranaceous, subglabrous, with 2-3 glands at their base, 2-2J in. long, 11-15 lines 

 broad, on puberulous petioles 5-7 lines long ; a simple lateral raceme, as long as the 

 leaves, glabrous, with alternate pedicels, supported by much shorter linear bractlets; 

 sepals linear-lanceolate, ciliate at their base, 3^ lines long ; tube of corolla 7 lines long, 

 cylindrical, somewhat contracted in the middle ; segments narrowly oblong, one third the 

 length of the tube ; stamens seated on a pilose ring in the contraction of the tube ; disk 

 of 5 linear lobes, longer than the ovaries. 



