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6. Temnadenia secundiplora, nob. : Echites secundiflora, A. DC. l. c. p. 457. In Mexico : mow vidi. 

 A subscandent plant, with slender, pallid, glabrous branches ; leaves oblong-ovate, cor- 

 date, acuminate, membranaceous, 2 in, long, 9-10 lines broad, on petioles 3 lines long ; 

 racemes simple, axillary, pendulous, 6 in. long, fructiferous at the base, bearing above 

 several alternate secund flowers, on pedicels 2 lines long, supported by lanceolate bracts 

 1 line long ; sepals broadly lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 lines long ; tube of corolla 1 in. 

 long, greenish yeUow, narrow at the base ; segments obovate-oblong, crispate, subre- 

 flexed, 6 lines long, yellowish, with crimson spots at their base ; follicles linear, torulose, 

 subcoherent at the apex, 4-5 in. long. 



A species in habit, inflorescence, and spotted corolla approaching T. stellaris. 



7. Temnadenia pallidiflora, nob. : Echites Franciscea, Hook. (nonLindl.), var. pallidiflora, Bot. Mag. 



7Q, tab. 4547 : Echites varia, Miill. (non Stadelm.), var. sulphurea, I. c. p. 158. In Brasilia, p'rov. 

 Rio de Janeiro, inter Mage et Freichal : v. v. et sicca in herb, meo (No. 4031). 



My specimen agrees well with Sir Wm. Hooker's drawing of a plant received from 

 Eio de Janeiro, and cultivated in the Botanic Garden of Paris. It is a climbing species, 

 near T. bicrura, with slender, terete, softly puberulous branches, with axUs 3-3J in. 

 apart ; leaves opposite, oblong, narrowing below the middle, cordate and obtusely bilobed 

 at the base, suddenly constricted at the summit into a short acute acumen, submembra- 

 naceous, pale green above, rigidly and sparsely pilose above, the hairs growing out of 

 scabridly globular prominences, ciliate on the margin, opake, and pale yellowish 

 beneath, the reddish midrib, nerves, and transversely reticulate veins prominulent and 

 furnished with long white very patent hairs, 2-8 in. long, |— 1|- in. broad, on sud- 

 denly reflexed cano-tomentose petioles 3-5 lines long ; raceme lateral, as long as the 

 smaller leaves, on a hirsutely pubescent peduncle 9 lines long, bearing upwards about 

 10 alternate subapproximate flowers, on hairy deflexed pedicels 2 lines long, with a 

 short acute basal bract ; sepals linear-lanceolate, very attenuated at the summit, thickly 

 pilose outside, with membranaceous margins, each with an inner denticulate scale ; 

 corolla of a pale yeUow colour, marked by roseate spots in the mouth, densely niveo- 

 tomentose outside ; tube cylindrical, 12 lines long, contracted 5 lines above the base, 

 subcampanulate above ; segments deltoid, dolabrif orm, with an acute tooth at the sinister 

 angle, roundly expanded at the other side, and dextrorsely convolute, 4 lines long and 

 broad. 



8. Temnadenia leptoloba, nob. : Echites leptoloba, Stadelm. Bot. Zeit. 1841, Beibl. i. p. 157 j A. DC. 



/. c. p. 456. In sylvis Rio Japure et Rio Negro : non vidi. 



A shrub with a striate stem and subflliform, terete, glabrous branches, having remote 

 axils ; leaves ovate, membranaceous, upper ones narrower, cuneate at the base, cuspidate 

 at the apex, lower ones subobtuse at the base and acute above, 3-4 J in. long, 2-2^ in. 

 broad, on petioles 6-9 lines long; racemes axillary, longer than the leaves; peduncle 

 bifid ; pedicels 6 lines long, supported by ovate-lanceolate bracts, scarcely 1 line long ; 

 sepals ovate-lanceolate, patent, 2 lines long, each with an inner, trapezoidal, obsoletely 

 bidentate scale \ line long ; corolla yellow, glabrous ; tube striate, 6 lines longj con- 



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