214 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN A20GYNACEM. 



leaves obovate-elliptic, diminishing below tlie middle into 2 narrow, cordate, incumbent 

 lobes, gradually acuminate, flatly hirsute above, scabridulous beneath, adpressed 

 pilose on the prominulent nerves and veins, 2^3 in. long, 1-1^ in. broad, on petioles 

 4-5 lines long ; raceme lateral, pilose ; peduncle hirsute, 9 lines long, bearing upwards 

 many approximate flowers on pubescent pedicels 4 lines long ; sepals narrowly lanceo- 

 late, glabrous, 5 lines long ; tube of corolla 21 lines long, contracted at the base for 

 7 lines, funnel-shaped above, cinereo-pubescent ; segments dolabriform, 9 lines long, 6 

 lines broad ; stamens inserted on a pilose ring in the contraction of the tube ; follicles 

 brown, terete, torulous, acute at both ends, subglabrous, 7-9 in. long ; seeds 6 lines long, 

 with a rufescent coma 11 lines long, 



15. Temnadenia glaucescens, nob. : Echites glaucescens, Mart. & Gal. Acad. Brux. xi. p. 358 ; Walp. 



Rep. tI. p. 476. Circa Oaxaca, in montibns : non vidi. 



A species with scandent glabrous branches ; leaves ovate, cordate, acute, petiolate, 

 glaucous beneath ; racemes axillary, longer than the leaves, with an elongated peduncle 

 beariag 3^ secund pedicellate flowers ; sepals small, lanceolate ; corolla funnel-shaped, 

 1^ in. long; tube narrowed at the base for half an inch, broadening above; segments 

 roundish ; anthers included ; disk of 5 free lobes. 



16. Temnadenia solanifolia, nob. : Hmmadictyon? solanifolium, Miill. I. c. p. 171, tab. 49. In Brasilia, 

 prov. Rio de Janeiro (Schiich, Akermann) : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, circa Itagoahy, in flore ; prov. 

 S. Paulo, infructu (Bowie and Cunningham). 



The plant above cited agrees with the description and drawing of Miiller ; and though 

 its flowers are somewhat smaller, they bear all the characters of Temnadenia and none 

 of the essential features of Mcemadictyon, wanting the peculiar corona and the buccal 

 appendages of the latter genus, in which it is doubtfully placed by MiiUer. It is a sub- 

 scandent plant, with subflexuose ferruginously puberulous branches incrassate at the 

 axils, which are 3-4 in. apart ; leaves elliptic, obtuse or subacute at the base, constricted 

 into an acute or obtuse mucronulate acumen at the summit, chartaceous, with revolute 

 margins, finely corrugulate and fuscous green above, subasperously granulate, with 

 about 8 pairs of slender divergent immersed nerves, yellowish opake beneath, granularly 

 scabridulous, with obsolete hairs on granules upon the midrib and nerves, which are 

 fuscous and prominulent, 2^—4^ in. long, 1^1^ in. broad, on slender pilose channelled 

 petioles 3-4 lines long ; panicle lateral, ferruginously puberulous, on a terete peduncle 

 6 lines long, bifid at the apex, each branch beariag about 6 opposite flowers on slender 

 spirally twisted pedicels 3-6 lines long, with a small linear basal bracteole ; sepals 

 narrowly lanceolate, subpuberulous, with cUiolate margins, 3 lines long, each with 

 an inner broadish subdentate scale ; tube of corolla 6 lines long, ■ a little ventricose 

 above the middle, cylindrical above, where it is fuscous, thickish, and marked within the 

 throat by 10 subpuberulous lines, but without corona or buccal appendages ; segments 

 rounder on one side, simply convolute dextrorsely, 3 lines long ; stamens inserted on 

 a pilose ring at the lower constriction of the tube ; anthers slender, coherent, rigid, 



