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topulose, 5 in. long, 1 line thick ; seeds and coma as in the preceding species ; the in- 

 florescence similar, bearing yeUow flowers. 



3. MiTozus FUNiFORMis, nob. : Echites fiiniformis,YeY\.. Fl. Flum. p. 109, Icon. iii. tab. 29; A. DC. I.e. 



p. 460 : Amblyanthera funiformis, Miill. Fl. Bras. xxvi. p. 144. In Brasilia^ insulis Ilha grande et 

 S. Catberina : non vidi. 



This species certainly does not belong to Amblyanthera \ it has been confounded by 

 Miiller with others collected by me, here described. In the drawing of the ' Mora Flu- 

 minensis ' the Paris artist, who roughly copied the fine drawings of Velloz, has made the 

 branches in the plate cited far too stout, as the name funiformis clearly indicates, and 

 as the branchlet on the right-hand side of the plate shows. The branches are slender, 

 dilated at the axils, which are I5-2 in. apart, and bear 2 minute stipules ; the leaves are 

 ovate, cordate at the base, narrowing above the middle into an acute acumen, are 2-3^ 

 in. long, 1-lf in. broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long ; the panicle is lateral, on a bare slender 

 peduncle 2-4 in. long, bearing above about 10 alternate flowers on slender pedicels 6-9 

 lines long ; sepals acutely ovate, 1^ line long ; tube of corolla IJ in. long, campanularly 

 widening above the middle ; segments 8 lines long, 7 lines broad ; stamens inserted in 

 the contraction of the tube ; disk urceolate, 5-grooved, with a shortly crenate 5-lobed 

 margin, a little shorter than the 2 oblong ovaries ; style slender, 9 lines long ; clavuncle 

 incrassate, on a peltate membrane ; follicles 2, straight, terete, parallel, nearly erect (not 

 conjoined at the apex), 4f-5 in. long, 2 lines broad ; seeds oblong, 4 lines long, coma 

 8 lines long. 



4. MiTozus MicEOPHTLLA, nob. : Echites microphylla, Stadelm. I. c. p. 35 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 459. In Bra- 



silia, prov. Babia et S. Paulo : non vidi. 



A species notable for its small leaves, and distinct from the preceding. It is a scan- 

 dent plant, with very slender glabrous branches, having its axUs furnished with 2 

 dentiform stipules ; the opposite leaves are ovate-oblong, rounded and cordate at the 

 base, gradually acute or acuminate, green above, ferruginous beneath, with prominent 

 midrib and nerves, which are parallelly divergent and barbate in their axils, the veins 

 reticulated, 10-20 liaes long, 8-10 hnes broad, on pilose petioles 2^-3 lines long ; raceme 

 lateral, 2 in. long, on a slender peduncle 1 in. long, bearing about 7 subapproximate 

 alternate flowers, on pedicels 3-4 liaes long, supported by a small acute bract ; sepals 

 acute. If line long, with an inner denticulate scale ; tube of corolla 18 lines long, 

 narrowed at its base for 7 lines, thence campanulate ; segments yellow, rhomboidally 

 ovate, inequilaterally dolabriform, 9 lines long and broad, dextrorsely convolute ; stamens 

 seated at the contraction of the tube ; anthers cohering, membranaceous at the summit, 

 shortly bilobed at the base ; disk urceolate, its margin scarcely 5-cleft, crenulate, as long 

 as the ovaries ; follicles slender, cylindrical, smooth, pendulous, 7 in. long. 



5. MiTozus Blanchetii, nob. : Echites Blanchetii, A. DC. I. c. p. 448; Miill. I. c. p. 157. In Brasilia 



(Blancbet 3333a), Babia : nbn vidi. 



A cUmbirig species with stout branches ; branchlets slender, subtetragonous, flexuose, 

 cinereo-fuscous ; axils ciliolate ; leaves elliptic, obtuse at both ends, chartaceous, with 



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