208 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCYNACE^. 



indusiata ; stigmata 2, minima, terminalia. FoUicuU 2, teretes, apice conjuncti, densissime albo- 

 tomentosi ; semina plurima, comosa. 



Sufirutices AmerictB meridionalis, plerumque Brasilienses ; rami S(Bpe alte scandentes ; folia opposita, 

 elliptica, acuta, imo scepius cordata, brevipetiolata ; inflorescentia racemosa; pedunculus lateralis, 

 defiexm, apice parallele 2-ramosus, ramis undique plurifloris; flores plerumque rosei aut violacei 

 pedicellati et breviter bracteolati. 



1. Temnadenia violacea, nob. : Echites violacea. Veil, (non Miill.), Flora Flum. p. 110, Icon. iii. 



tab. 31 ; A. DC. /. c. p. 459 ; Stadelm. I. c. p. 34!. In Brasilia^ prov. Rio de Janeiro, circa Itagoahy 

 (Velloz) : V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Rio de Janeiro (Solander) ; in herb. Reg. Hort. ex prov. Sao 

 Paulo (Weir 122). 



A scandent species, with dark costately striate scabridulous branclies ; axils 3-4 in. 

 apart, dUated, with a short stipule on each side of the petioles ; leaves oblong, rounded 

 and deeply cordate at the base, gradually acuminate or more suddenly acute at the 

 summit, submembranaceous, above fuscous green, opake, scabridly pruinose, with im- 

 mersed nerves, beneath opake, yellowish hepatic, scabrid, and rigidly hirsutulous, 2^-4 in. 

 long, l-j-2 in. broad, on reflexed pubescent petioles 2 lines long ; raceme lateral at the 

 axUs, 4 in. long ; peduncle deflexed, 1^ in. long, bifid at the summit, each branch bear- 

 ing about 10 alternate flowers, on patent subpilose pedicels 6 lines long, having an acute 

 bract f line long at their base ; sepals ovate, acuminate, subpilose, reddish, 3 lines long, 

 1^ line broad, each with 3 small lanceolate inner scales ; corolla 2^ in. long, violet below, 

 upper portion of a deep rose-colour ; tube 15 lines long, cylindrical and ventricose at the 

 base for a length of 6 lines, there suddenly constricted, rather broadly cyliudrical or in- 

 fundibuliform above, sparsely pilose outside ; segments dolabriform, 10 lines long, 9 lines 

 broad, subcrispate on the margins, with dextrorse convolution ; stamens inserted in the 

 constriction of the tube, on a retrorsely pilose niveous ring ; anthers 2\ lines long, 

 cohering in a cone, very acuminate, subhirsute behind, with 2 acute stoutish basal lobes ; 

 disk fleshy, cleft for more than half its length into 5 emargiuated lobes as long as the 

 2 globular ovaries ; style slender ; clavuncle incrassate, with a basal membranaceous 

 expansion. EoUicles terete, striate, said by Weir to be 6 in. long ; seeds oblong, with 

 a long rostrum as in Stipecoma, dorsally convex, and interruptedly costulate, concave 

 on the ventral face, 5J lines long, 1^ line broad, with a linear raphe, crowned by a 

 spreadiag silky coma 11 liues long. 



2. Temnadenia bicrura, nob. : Echites varia, Miill. (non Stadelm.) I. c. p. 157 (excl. var. purpurea et 



sulphurea), tab. 47. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. v. et sice, in herb, meo (no. 1587 et 

 4020). 



The drawing above figured in the ' Elora Brasiliensis' was taken from a plant introduced 

 into the Paris Garden from Rio de Janeiro. I found it in a living state at distant places 

 in that province in 1830 and 1838, and then made drawings of it, its chief peculiarity con- 

 sisting in its long pendent bifid raceme ; its tortuous branches are fuscous, striate, and 

 shortly hirsute, with dilated axUs 4-5 in. apart, furnished on each side of the petioles 

 with 2 small acute stipules ; opposite leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, rounded or some- 

 what acute at the base, suddenly constricted into a short mucronulate acumen, membra- 



