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naceous, subundulate on the margins, above fuscous green, opake, obsoletely velutinous, 

 with very fine prominulent nerves, beneath yellowish ferruginous, very opake, pube- 

 rulous, with rubescent prominulent nerves, 3-4 in. long, 1^2 J in. broad, on tortuous 

 pubescent petioles 2-3 lines long ; inflorescence lateral at the axils, about 6 in. long, 

 on a stoutish velutinous reflexed peduncle If in. long, bearing at its apex 2 equal race- 

 mose subflexuose branches 2J-3^ in. long, spicate, with numerous alternate flowers 

 1-2 lines apart, on pedicels 6-9 lines long, with a setaceous bractlet at their base 1-2 

 lines long ; sepals acuminate, recurved at the apex, 5 lines long, each with an acute 

 bidentate basal scale; tube of corolla darkish red, 10 lines long, somewhat broadly 

 cylindrical, much contracted in the middle ; segments broadish, inequilaterally rounded, 

 dolabriform, with a dextrorse convolution, 4 lines long, 4 lines broad, of a palish yellow 

 colour ; stamens inserted at the contraction of the tube, on a narrow ring of retrorse 

 white hairs ; anthers cohering in a cone, very acuminate, with 2 long, divergent, in- 

 curAdng, aristiform basal forks ; disk fleshy, split nearly to the base into 5 emarginate, 

 striate lobes as long as the 2 globose ovaries ; style slender ; clavuncle incrassate, 

 5-sulcate, with a basal peltate membrane, and terminated by 2 small obtuse stigmata ; 

 follicles unknown. 



3. Temnadenia Lobbiana, nob. : Echites hirsuta, Hook, (non Rich., nee R. & P., nee Stadelm.), Bot. 

 Mag. tab. 3997 : Echites lasiocarpa{m parte), inclus. var. Lobbiana, A. DC. I. c. p. 464. In Brasilia, 

 prov. Rio de Janeiro : v. v. eirea Mage, et sice, in herb, meo (4022) . 



This species was figured by me from a living plant in 1836 ; and with this the plant 

 introduced from Rio de Janeiro at a later date, and figured by Sir Wm. Hooker, well 

 accords. It is a scandent species, with terete flexuose hirsute branches, its woolly sub- 

 dilatedr axils. 4 in. apart, with 2 linear pubescent stipules on each face 1 line long ; the 

 opposite leaves are elliptic-oblong, cordate at the base, somewhat suddenly constricted 

 into a short cuspidate acumen, entire margins subundulate and subrevolute, deepish 

 green above, opake, shortly and sparsely puberulous above, with prominulent nerves, 

 beneath pale yellowish, opake, pubescent, the slender prominulent nerves being patently 

 pilose, 4-4^ in. long (including the rounded basal lobes 3 lines deep, and the acumen 

 5 lines long), 2-2j in. broad, on patently pubescent petioles 6-9 lines long ; a single 

 lateral raceme at the nodes, on a stoutish woolly deflexed peduncle 6 lines long, bearing 

 upwards about 6-8 approximate flowers on yellowish woolly pedicels 3 lines long, each 

 supported by a short ovate bract ; sepals lanceolate, hispidly pubescent, erect, 4 lines 

 long, each with an internal broad denticulate scale ; corolla rather large, with a border 

 of a pale yellow colour, with red striate lines in the throat ; tube reddish, 16 lines long, 

 narrowed at the base for 7 lines, sparsely pubescent, above funnel-shaped ; segments 

 dolabriform, deeply uncinate at the left angle, dextrorsely convolute, 6 lines long and 

 broad ; stamens seated on a densely pilose ring at the contraction of the tube ; anthers 

 cohering in a cone, biaristate at the base ; disk rather deeply cleft into 5 fleshy ob- 

 long emarginate lobes, a little shorter than the 2 acute pubescent ovaries ; style slender ; 

 clavuncle large, 5-grooved, with a basal peltate membrane; follicles 2, linear, com- 

 pressed, conjoined at the apex; in my specimen these are immature, densely covered 



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