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curving petioles ^ in. long ; racemes lateral, simple, pubescent, 2 in. long ; sepals pube- 

 rulous, subulate, acuminate ; corolla 2 ia. long, glabrous, yellow, variegated with white 

 and red ; tube cylindrical, swollen above the base, campanulate near the mouth, marked 

 inside with several "white, retrorsely sericeous lines ; segments acuminately uncinate at 

 the angle ; stamens inserted above the base of the tube ; iilaments compressed, thickened 

 and subpilose ; anthers subsagittate at the base, erect, and cohering ; disk urceolate, of 



5 fleshy subconnate lobes, enclosing 2 oval ovaries ; style as long as the filaments ; 

 clavimcle subglobose, terminated by 2 stigmata ; follicles 2, terete, torulose, 5 in. long, 

 3 lines broad, conjoined at the curving summits. 



The plant described by Grisebach under the same name, probably belongs to some 

 other species. 



14. MiTozus CuYABENsis, nob. : Echites Cuyahensis, A. DC. I. c. p. 462 : Amblyanthera Cuiabensis, Miill. 



I. c. p. 145. In Cuyaba: non vidi. 



A species with slender, virgate,.hirtenous branches, with remote axUs; leaves elliptic, 

 obtuse and subcordate at the base, very acuminate, rigidly membranaceous, subglabrous, 

 with parallel divergent nerves, 5 in. long, 1^2 in. broad, on petioles 4-5 lines long; 

 raceme as long as the leaves, scabro-hirteUous, on a thick angular peduncle, bearing 

 many fl.owers on pedicels 1^2 lines long, supported by ovate-subulate bracteoles 1-2 

 lines long ; sepals ovate-acuminate, subglabrous, 2 lines long, each with an inner simple 

 or bifid scale ; corolla glabrous ; tube cylindrical below the middle, funnel-shaped above, 

 IJ in. long ; segments 1 in. long ; disk urceolate, of 5 fleshy subconnate lobes, half as 

 long as the 2 puberulous ovaries ; follicles 2, subtorulose, glabrous, 7-9 in. long, IJ Kne 

 thick ; seeds with a deep-yellow coma. 



This is said by MiiUer to be near his M versicolor, var. glabrata. 



15. MiTOZus coNciNNUs, nob. : ramulis teniiissimis, pallidis, striolatis; foliis patentibus, ovato-oblongis, 

 imo rotundato-obtusis, apice acutis, tenuiter cbartaceis, marginibus revolutis, supra viridibus, im- 

 presse corrugulosisj nervis arcuatis immersis, subtus flavescenti-opacis, costa, nervis venisque 

 transversim reticulatis vix prominulis ; petiolis tenuibus, quam limbus 20plo brevioribus : racemis 

 axillaribuSj simplicibus, quam folium triple brevioribus, glabris, plurifloris ; pedicellis tenuissimis ; 

 sepalis linearibus, submembranaceis, singulis squamula lata intus munitis ; coroUse tubo cyliudrico ; 

 segmentis deltoideis, quam tubus triplo brevioribus ; staminibus medio tubi insertis ; antheris acu- 

 minatis, basi parallele furcatis ; stylo tenui ; clavuneula crasse cylindrica ; stigmatibus 2, obtusis, 

 terminalibus. In Brasilia, prov. Alagoas: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Penedo, Rio S. Francisco 

 (Gardner 1353). 



A very slender climbing plant, with axils 3 in. apart ; leaves 2^2f in. long, |-1 ia. 

 broa-d, on petioles 1^ line long; pedicels 3 liaes long ; sepals 1 line long; tube of coroUa 



6 lines long ; segments 3 lines long and broad ; disk urceolate, of 5 fleshy subconnate 

 lobes. 



16. MiTozus BKEViPES, uob. : Echites brevipes, Benth. in PL Hartw. p. 216 : Mesechites brevipes, Miill. 

 in Linn. xxx. p. 454. In Nova Granada : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Rio Mesa, prov. Bogota (Hart- 

 wegg 1195). 



A climbing species with very slender terete branches ; leaves subpatent, ovate-oblong. 



