210 ON SOIJTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



with white woolly hairs, 1^ in. long (when matured, 6 ia. long) ; seeds with a yellowish 

 coma. 



A drawing of this plant in flower and fruit, together with figures of the seed of 

 T. violacea, are shown in Plate XXX. 



4. Temnadenia lasiocarpa, nob. : Echites lasiocarpa, A. DC. I.e. p. 463 (excl. 2var.). In Brasilia, 

 prov. Cuyaba : non vidi. 



A climbing species, growing in hedges. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, narrower at the 

 base, and there auriculately cordate, cuspidate at the apex, undulate on the margin, ob- 

 soletely pilose above, adpressed hirsute beneath, .3-5 in. long, 1^-2^ in. broad, on petioles 

 6 lines long ; racemes axillary, half as long as the leaves, bearing many flowers on pedi- 

 cels 3 lines long ; sepals subulately linear, with pellucid margins, each with a truncate 

 scarcely dentate scale; corolla incano-villous outside, with a yellow tube 1 in. long, nar- 

 rowed in the lower half, funnel-shaped above, with obovate segments ; disk of 5 oblong 

 obtuse lobes ; follicles 2, terete, erect, torulose, subconjoined at the apex, ferruginously 

 hirsute ; seeds with an ochraceous coma. 



A very well-marked species. 



5, Temnadenia stellaris, nob. : Echites stellaris, Lindl. Bot. Reg. tab. 1664 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 457 (excl. 

 pi. Gardn. 1060) : Echites varia,_ Miill., var. rosea, I. c. p. 158. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro : 

 V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, in mont. Organ, fluv. Parahyba (Gardn. 5544). 



A scandent species, well represented in the drawing above cited, taken from a cultivated 

 plant obtained from Rio de Janeiro, which corresponds with Gardner's cited specimen : 

 it is near T. bicrura. Its slender branches cinereo-pubescent, have dilated substipular 

 axils 4-5 in. apart ; opposite leaves elliptic, gradually very narrow towards the recurved 

 subplicate base, which is there cordate, or rather bilobed, gradually acuminate at the 

 apex, membranaceous, ciHate on the margin, light green above, opake, softly and shortly 

 puberulous, with subimmersed slender nerves, paler beneath, of a reddish fulvous colour, 

 opake, pubescent, patently pilose on the scarcely prominulent midrib and nerves, 2|- 

 3^ in. long, I3— 1^ in. broad, on pubescent petioles 4 lines long ; raceme lateral at the 

 nodes, 3 in. long, including the suddenly deflexed peduncle of half that length, bearing 

 beyond numerous approximate flowers on slender pubescent pedicels 4 lines long, sup- 

 ported by minute bracts ; sepals linear, acaminate, pubescent, 4 lines long, each with 3 

 unequal acute basal scales ; corolla tubular ; tube 9 lines long, dark-red, swelling up- 

 wards and downwards from the middle, where it is considerably contracted, marked by 

 parallel nerves ; segments subfleshy, dolabriform, acute at the sinister angle, dextrorsely 

 convolute, 6 lines long, 4 lines broad, of a yellowish pink colour, marked in the mouth 

 with several radiating, confluent, stellated dark-red patches ; stamens seated in the con- 

 tracted portion of the tube, on a narrow retrorsely pilose ring ; anthers cohering in a 

 cone, very acuminate, with 2 divergent, incurved, long, aristiform basal prongs, hirsu- 

 tulous behind ; disk fleshy, slit nearly to the base into 5 obtuse lobes, as long as the 2 

 rounded ovaries ; style slender ; clavuncle oblong, incrassate, with a basal peltate mem- 

 brane ; follicles not known. 



