ON SOUTH- AMEEICAN APOCTNACELE, 225 



long ; panicle axillary, IJ in. long, all hirto-puberulous, on a peduncle 3 lines long, fur- 

 nished above with 6-8 subsecund alternate flowers, on pedicels 2 lines long, each sup- 

 ported by a setiform puberulous bract 3 lines long ; sepals acute, puberulous, 1 line long, 

 terminated by a setiform appendage of the same length. The corolla had fallen away ; 

 but another was seen in an extremely young state covered with dense ferruginous 

 tomentum. 



19. MiTozus Mexicanus, nob. : Prestonia Mexicana, A. DC. /. c. p. 429. In Mexico ad Oaxaca (Andrieux 

 251) : non vidi. 



A climbing species, with broadly ovate leaves, rounded and subcordate at the base, 

 suddenly acuminate at the apex, pubescent above, rufo-tomentose beneath, 4-6 in. long, 

 3-4 in. broad, on petioles 2-4 lines long ; inflorescence rufo-tomentose ; sepals pubescent 

 on both sides, 7 lines long, with an inner short ovate-truncate denticulate scale, glabrous 

 inside; tube of corolla a little longer than the calyx, its mouth 5-sulcate, furnished with 

 5 small glands, without appendages ; stamens inserted on a retrorsely pilose ring in the 

 middle of the tube; disk urceolate, 5-sulcate, with 5 crenate teeth on the margin, or, in 

 other words, of 5 subconnate lobes. 



20. MiTozus Jamaicensis, nob. : v. s, in herb. Mus. Brit. Jamaica (Dr. Wright). 



A species having very slender twining branches, with axils ^-1 in. apart ; leaves ob- 

 long, cordate at the base, acute and shortly acuminate, with revolute margins, charta- 

 ceous, green above, corrugulate, opake, with immersed nerves, ferruginously opake 

 beneath, with a reddish prominulent hirsute midrib and rubescent smooth nerves and 

 much-reticulated veins, 1-1|^ in. long, 7-10 lines broad, on petioles 1-2 lines long; 

 raceme axillary, 4 lines long, on a very slender peduncle 1^ in. long, bearing upwards 

 several alternate fl.owers on filiform pedicels 9 lines long ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 1 line 

 long ; corolla dark-red ; tube cyliadrical, contracted below the middle, 10 lines long ; 

 segments obliquely obtuse, undulate on the margins, dextrorsely convolute, 4 lines long ; 

 stamens inserted above the base of the tube ; anthers linear, acuminate, with 2 subacute 

 basal prongs ; disk urceolate, of 5 oblong roundish lobes connate at the base. 



Seconbatia. 



This genus was established by Prof. A. De CandoUe in 1844, and afterwards illustrated 

 by Prof. Miiller ia the ' Plora Brasiliensis.' It consists of a few slender scandent species, 

 the branches minutely crenulate across the nodes, with extremely small intrapetiolar 

 stipules, opposite petiolate leaves, and a terminal, very short raceme, furnished with 

 few very inconspicuous flowers on a short divided peduncle. The fruit is peculiar in 

 shape, consisting of 2 suberect foUicles, broad and fusiform, woody, containing many 

 seeds, with a long elastic coma of numerous spreading hairs, recurving outwards in a 

 trumpet-form. 



The Secondatia arborea, Miill. {Echites arborea, Velloz) is referred to Malouetiat aute^ 

 p. 89. 



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