200 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACE^. 



cordate, acute, entire, submembranaceous, green and subglabrous above, bearing near the 

 base of the midrib several successive subulate glabrous glands, beneath softly hirto- 

 pubescent, 20-21 lines long, 12 lines broad, on channelled pubescent petioles 3 Mnes 

 long ; raceme lateral, pubescent, 1^ in. long, bearing about 6 flowers 9-10 lines long, on 

 bracteolate pedicels 3 lines long ; bracts pilose, lanceolate, 2 lines long ; sepals lanceolate, 

 pubescent, imbricate, spreading, with acute inner scales ; corolla cylindrical ; tube 6 lines 

 long, swelling upwards; segments roundish, dolabriform, crispate, rotate, shorter than the 

 tube ; stamens seated in the constriction near the middle of the tube ; anthers coherent, 

 lanceolate ; disk of 5 short truncate lobes, shorter than the 2 oblong ovaries. 



20. EcHiTEs coNGESTA, H. B. K. I. c. p. 214; A. DC. I. c. p. 466 : Amblyanthera congesta, Miill. Linn. 

 XXX. 450. In Ecuador, prov. Popayam : non vidi. 



A scandent species, with hirsute terete branches, marked with many white lenticels ; 

 axils charged with many depressed, ciliated, dentiform glands in the usual place of 

 stipules ; leaves roundly ovate, cordate, shortly acuminate, submembranaceous, above 

 green, sparsely pilose, with parallel nerves and much reticulated veins, bearing about 4 

 subulate glabrous glands in succession near the base of the midrib, canescently hirto- 

 pubescent beneath, 3-3^ in. long, 2-2^ in. broad, on channelled hirto-canescent petioles 

 8-9 lines long ; raceme lateral, on a hairy peduncle 1^ in. long, bearing a capitate head 

 of closely aggregated, small, odoriferous flowers, on pilose pedicels 3-4 lines long, with 

 lanceolate bracts ; sepals linear-lanceolate, hairy outside, half the length of the tube of 

 the corolla ; corolla white, size of that of jessamine ; tube cylindrical, rugosely contracted 

 above the base, pubescent within ; segments unequally oblong, obtuse, crispate on the 

 margins, a little longer than the tube, subreflexed; stamens inserted on a pilose ring 

 above the base of the tube ; anthers cohering, lanceolately acuminate, obtusely bilobed 

 at the base ; disk of 5 short lobes, as long as the 2 oblong glabrous ovaries. 



21. BcHiTEs ciTRiFOLiA, H. B. K. I. c. p. 216; A. DC. I.e. p. 465 : Amblyanthera citrifolia, Miill. 

 Linn. xxx. p. 450. In Nova Granada, prov. Mariquita : non vidi. 



A slender species, with elongated glabrous branchlets, having remote axils, charged 

 with many short, irregular, smooth, tooth-like glands; opposite leaves ovate-oblong, 

 rounded or obsoletely cordate, acuminate, glabrous, rigidly membranaceous, with revolute 

 margins, shining above, with subparallel nerves and reticulated veins, the nerves beneath 

 prominulent, 3 in. long, 15-17 lines broad, on channelled petioles 2-3 lines long, bearing 

 at their junction with the blade 2 subulate glabrous glands ; raceme lateral, 1^ in. 

 long, on a peduncle divided at its apex into two branches, each bearing many pedicel- 

 late flowers ; sepals ovate, acuminate, imbricate, glabrous, six times shorter than the 

 tube of the corolla, which is salver-shaped; tube cylindrical and constricted in the 

 middle ; stamens seated on a pilose ring at the constriction of the tube ; anthers acumi- 

 nate, obtusely 2-lobed at the base, and cohering round the clavuncle. 



22. EcHiTEs HiaTiFLORA, A. DC. I. c. p. 456. In Peruvia (Pavon) : non vidi. 



A climbing species, with tomentous branches ; leaves elliptic, cordate, very acuminate, 



