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length, 3 lines long ; branchlets alternate, bearing 2 flowers each on pedicels 4 lines long ; 

 sepals acuminate, 1^ line long ; tube of corolla 10 lines long, slender below, widening a 

 little above the middle ; segments dolabriform, acute on one side, rounded on the other, 

 4 lines long, dextrorsely convolute ; stamens inserted on a pilose ring in the middle 

 of the tube ; filaments retrorsely pilose ; anthers emarginate at the base, acuminate, 

 cohering ; disk of 5 obtuse linear fleshy lobes. 



17. Mesechites jasminiflora, nob. : Echites jasminiflora, Mart. & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Brux. xi. 

 p. 357 ; Walp. Rep. vi. p. 476. In Mexico : non vidi. 



A twining species, with slender puberulous branches ; leaves lanceolate, cordate, 

 acuminate, subglabrous above, softly pubescent beneath, on short villous petioles ; 

 racemes axillary, pedunculate, longer than the leaves, bearing yellow flowers ; sepals 

 small ; corolla salver-shaped, 1 in. long ; stamens included ; follicles very long, torulose. 



A species near M. torosa, with somewhat broader leaves and larger flowers. 



18. Mesechites Guianensis, nob. : Echites Guianensis, A. DC. I. c. p. 458 : Amblyanthera Guianensis, 

 Miill. iu Linn. xxx. p. 448. In Cayenne : non vidi. 



A climbing plant with elongated terete scabrid branchlets ; leaves ovate or lanceo- 

 late, cordate, acuminate, membranaceous, glabrous, having several glands above and 

 near the petiole, reddish nerves and veins, 3-4 in. long, 10-18 Mnes broad, on petioles 

 2-3 lines long; raceme lateral, glabrous, nearly as long as the leaves, bearing many 

 spicate flowers on pedicels 1^ line long, supported by lanceolate bracts 3 lines long ; 

 sepals ovate, subulate, 2 lines long, with an inner 4-dentate scale; tube of coroUa 

 14 lines long, a little broader below the middle, swelKng above ; segments half as 

 long as the tube ; stamens inserted on a hirsute band at the constriction of the tube ; 

 disk of 5 obtuse lobes ; foUicles torulose, glabrous, patently recurved, 5 in. long, 3 lines 

 broad. 



19. Mesechites Andkieuxii, nob. : Amblyanthera Andrieuxii, Miill. I. c. p. 432. In Mexico, prope 

 Oaxaca (Andrieux 249) : non vidi. 



A somewhat scandent species, with terete, glabrous, reddish, subverrucose branches 

 1 line thick, with branchlets very scaly at the base, copiously leafy above ; leaves 

 narrowly obovate or obovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, rigidly membranaceous, 

 fuscous, hirto-puberulous above, with about 6 pairs of divergent nerves, obsoletely 

 veined, yellowish beneath, softly pubescent, 9^-13 lines long, 3J-7 lines broad, on 

 petioles 1^2 J lines long ; racemes axillary, a little longer than the leaves, subdeflexed, 

 subglabrous, bearing many small flowers, the 2 lower ones opposite, the others alternate, 

 on rigid pedicels 1-1^ line long, supported by puberulous lanceolate bracteoles of the 

 same length ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, puberulous outside, with membranaceous margins, 

 3 lines long, with 4-8 inner subulate scales ; corolla in the whole 5f-7 lines long ; its 

 cylindrical tube broader at the base, swelling above to a breadth of 2 lines ; segments 

 rhomboidally obovate ; disk of 5 free ovate obtuse lobes, as long as the glabrous ovoid 

 ovaries. 



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