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40. EcHiTES LANATA, Mart. & Gall. Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. p. 359 ; Walp. Rep. vi. p. 476. In prov. Oaxaca : 



non vidi. 



A species said to resemble Uchites montana of Kuntli, with, pubescent branches ; leaves 

 obovate, cordate, acuminate, coriaceous, densely pubescent above, woolly beneath, sessile ; 

 racemes axillary, longer than the leaves, bearing several lax pedicellate flowers, rather 

 less than 1 inch long ; sepals obtusely ovate, glabrous ; corolla hypocrateriforra ; stamens 

 included, 



41. EcHiTEs LINEARIS, Velloz, Fl. Flum. p. Ill, Icon. iii. tab. 36: Forsteronial linearis, Miill. I.e. 

 p. 107. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro, ad Santa Cruz (Velloz) : non vidi. 



A plant known only to Velloz. It is a stoutish climber, with slender flexuose branch- 

 lets, having axils 2-4 in. apart ; leaves oblong-elliptic, acute at the base, acuminate, 

 4-4J in. long, lj-2f in. broad, on stoutish reflexed spreading petioles |-1 in. long ; 

 raceme terminal, simple, spicately flowered, 4 in. long, on a peduncle bare at the base for 

 IJ in., bearing upwards about 15 simple, alternate, rather small flowers on pedicels 2 lines 

 Long, supported by 2 opposite, small, acute bracts ; sepals acute, 1 line long ; corolla 

 (apparently in bud) 5 lines long, yellow ; tube very short ; segments linear-subulate, 

 erect, 3 lines long ; stamens partly exserted ; disk of 5 free lobes surrounding the 2 

 oblong ovaries ; style short ; clavuncle incrassate. 



Miiller, who did not see this plant, refers it doubtfully to Forsteronia ; but it differs 

 from that genus in its simple, spicate inflorescence with alternate larger flowers. For 

 the same reasons it cannot belong to Thyrsamthus nor to Eocothostemon. Erom Echites 

 proper it differs in its undeveloped flowers, by its very short tube and subexserted 

 stamens ; but it accords in its spicate inflorescence. TiU more is known of it, the species 

 will remain in EcMtes, with an exceptional development in the shape of its corolla. 

 The opposite bracteoles at the base of the pedicels are omitted by the Paris draughtsman ; 

 but they are shown in the analytical figure. 



Temnadenia. 



A group of species, uniform in their characters, mostly climbing plants with opposite 

 elliptic leaves generally cordate at the base and pubescent ; inflorescence more frequently 

 lateral, on a deflexed peduncle supporting 2 floriferous branches bearing several pretty 

 flowers ; fruit of 2 terete very woolly follicles, conjoined at the apex. 



Temnadenia *, nob. Sepala 5, lanceolata, tenuiter acuminata, margine membranacea, quincuncialiter 

 imbricata, intus squamula sublaciniata singulatim munita. Corolla subhypocrateriformis ; tubiis 

 cylindricus, parallele striatus, ssepe sub medium subito constrictus, superne infundibuliformis, 

 fauce nudus aut in gula carnosula crebre costulatus, vel raro in lineola transversa contractus. 

 Segmenta 5, oblonga, oblique et rotundate dolabriformia, borizontaliter expansa et dextrorsum 

 convoluta. Stamina 5, inclusa, ad constrictionem tubi inserta; filamenta brevia, pilosa, ex annulo 

 piloso orta ; anthera lineares, acuminatse, in conum subcobserentes, imo acute bifurcatse. Discus 

 cylindricus, fere ad basin quinquefissus, lobis oblongis obtusis emarginatis ; ovaria 2, subsequilonga 

 aut paullo longiora. Stylus tenuis ; clavuncula incrassata, cylindrica, imo membranula peltata 



* From reuro) (scindo), aSfiv (glanda), from its disk cleft into 5 segments nearly to the base. 



