234 ON SOUTH- AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



inequilateral, subacute, 3 lines long, 2 lines broad ; stamens seated on a pilose ring in 

 the middle of the tube ; anthers membranaceously apiculate, shortly bilobed at the 

 base ; disk of 5 obtusely oblong fleshy lobes. 



14. Mesechites HiRTBLLA, nob. : Echites hirtella, H. B. K. iii. p. 213 (non Benth.) ; A. DC. I. c. p. 465- 

 In Nova Granada, prope Mariquita : non vidi. 



A climbing species, with extremely slender striate shaggy branchlets ; leaves oblong, 

 narrowed and cordate at the base, mucronate and acute 'at the apex, entire, submem- 

 branaceous, hirsute on both sides, reticulately veined, with a minute gland at the bottom 

 of the midrib, 2-2f in. long, f-1 in. broad, on reddish pilose channelled petioles 2 lines 

 long ; raceme lateral, hirtellous, near 2 in. long, on a peduncle 6 lines long, bearing 

 upwards many flowers on pedicels with much shorter lanceolate bracteoles, pilose ; sepals 

 ovate, acuminate, imbricate, hirtellous ; corolla salver-shaped, yellow, pilose outside ; its 

 tube 9-10 lines long, somewhat contracted in the middle, swelling above, with five small 

 red spots in the mouth ; segments obliquely inequilateral, obovate, crispate, rotate, half 

 as long as the tube ; stamens seated in the constrictioii of the tube ; anthers acuminate, 

 cohering ; follicles very slender, subtorulose, rostrate at the apex, glabrous, 5-6 in. long ; 

 seeds fusiform, with an apical coma. 



15. Mesechites Oaxacana, nob.: Echites Oaxacana, A. DC. I. c. p. 451; Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 350, 

 sub n" 492 : Amblyanthera Oaxacana, Mull, in Linn. xxx. p. 447. In Mexico, prov. Oaxaca : non 

 vidi. 



A climbing plant, with slender branchlets; leaves ovate, subcordate, acuminate, 

 membranaceous, with many approximate nerves, reticulated, with 2 small glands at 

 their base, 2-2^ in. long, 9-12 lines broad, on slender petioles 4 lines long; racemes 

 axillary and terminal, as long as the leaves, on a slender peduncle bearing few flowers 

 on pedicels a little longer than the calyx; sepals lanceolate; tube of corolla 5 times 

 as long as the sepals, cylindrical, a little swollen above ; segments shorter than the 

 tube ; stamens seated above the middle of the tube ; disk of 5 acute lobes, longer than 

 the ovaries ; follicles 2, 5 in. long, erect, linear, somewhat torulose. 



This plant certainly does not belong to Amblyanthera, and does not harmonize with 

 the Echites hirtella, Benth. 



16. Mesechites hirtelltjla, nob. : Echites hirtella, Benth. (non H. B. K.) PI. Hartw. p. 67. In Mexico : 



V. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Puente de Gia (Hartweg 492). 



A species near M. torulosa, and very different from JEchites hirtella, H. B. K., which is 

 said by Bentham to be identical with JEchites Oaxacana, A. DC. It is a twining plant, 

 with filiform glabrous branches, having axils 1-lf in. apart ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, 

 obtuse and emarginately cordate at the base, gradually narrowing from the middle into 

 a very long acute acumen, membranaceous, pale green above, opake, shortly puberulous, 

 and scabridulous to the touch, with slender midrib and immersed nerves, paler, with a 

 yellowish hue, and opake beneath, obsoletely puberulous, with slightly prominent 

 reddish midrib and nerves and very reticulate veins, 2J in. long, 9 lines broad, on 

 petioles 3 lines long ; raceme lateral, 1 in. long, on a slender peduncle bare for half its 



