204 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



at its base with many subulate glands, puberulous beneath and subsericeous on the mid- 

 rib and nerves, 2J-2f in. long, IJ in. broad, on petioles 5f Hues long ; raceme much 

 longer than the leaves, on an elongated peduncle, densely flowered above, on approximate 

 puberulous pedicels 3j-4j lines long,s upported by acutely lanceolate bracteoles one haK 

 to three fourths shorter than the pedicels, and afterwards reflexed ; sepals triangularly 

 ovate, puberulous, 1^2 lines long, with 5-8 inner acute scales ; corolla, in the whole, 

 8^ lines long; tube glabrous, cylindrical for half its length, a little swollen above; 

 segments short, ovate, obtusely rounded, much shorter than the tube ; stamens inserted 

 in the contraction of the tube upon a sericeous woolly ring ; anthers short, glabrous ; 

 disk of 5 free ovate lobes, nearly as long as the obtusely ovoid ovaries. 



31. EcHiTES Andina, nob. : Amblyanthera Andina, Miill. Linn. xxx. p. 425. In Nova Granada, Andibns 



Quitensium (Jameson 101) : non vidi. 



A species belonging to this genus because of the glandular midribs of its leaves. It is 

 said by Miiller to be near SJ. microcalyx and E. acutiloba, before described. It has very 

 slender, puberulous branches, with axils 2 in. apart ; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, nar- 

 rowed and cordate at the base, shortly acuminate, membranaceous, olive-green above, 

 opake, puberulous, with 7-10 pairs of nerves, reticiilately veined, the midrib charged at 

 its base with many subulate glands, paler beneath, and softly cano-pubescent, lf-2f in. 

 long, 7-12 lines broad, on petioles 2f lines long; racemes axillary, scarcely as long as 

 the leaves, on a peduncle 7j lines long, bearing 5-7 flowers on pedicels 4| lines long, 

 supported by linear-lanceolate bracteoles half their length ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, sub- 

 obtuse, puberulous. If- 2 J lines long ; corolla altogether 1 in. long ; tube 7 lines long, 

 cylindrical for half its length, a little swollen above ; segments narrowly obovate, acumi- 

 nate, half as long as the tube ; stamens seated in the contraction of the tube ; disk of 5 

 broadly ovate lobes, half as long as the ovaries. 



32. EcHiTEs ALBiFLORA, nob. : PescMeTa? albiflora, Miq. Stirp. Surin. Sel. p. 165 ; Walp. Ann. iii. p. 63. 



In Surinam : non 



This species has few of the characters of a Feschiera ; and as it bears most of the 

 essential features existing in M vmbellata, I have placed it here. 



Its branches are terete ; the branchlets subtetragonous, with membranaceous angles, 

 glabrous, having several ovate acute, coriaceous interpetiolar stipules conjoined across 

 the nodes ; leaves oblong or elliptic, acute at the base, suddenly contracted at the summit, 

 with a recurved acute acumen, membranaceous, glabrous, with about 20 pairs of patent 

 curving nerves, and very short petioles ; racemes axillary, on a bifid peduncle, with 

 short bracteolate pedicels ; sepals lanceolate, obsoletely puberulous, with few internal 

 basal scales ; tube of corolla long and slender, with ovate-oblong acute segments as long 

 as the tube ; stamens inserted in the middle of the tube. 



33. EcHiTES DiSADENA, Miq. Stirp. Surin. Sel. p. 156 ; Walpers, Ann. iii. p. 43. In Surinam : non vidi. 



A species congeneric with the preceding. It has glabrous branchlets ; leaves oblong or 



elliptic-ovate, obtuse at the base, with a short acute acumen, coriaceous, with about 8 



pairs of curving spreading nerves, reticulated, with 2 approximate, ovate, entire erect 



