236 ON.SOUTH-AMERICAK APOCTNACELS. 



Anechites, Griseb. 



This was proposed as a subtribe of the genus Hchites by Grisebach in 1864, for a 

 group of plants, chiefly natives of the Antilles, much resembling Mesechites in habit, 

 differing chiefly in having narrow linear acuminate anthers, with two long parallel 

 needle-Hke forks at their base, and in the lobes of the disk united at their base into a 

 cup. Grisebach describes the segments of the corolla as sinistrorse ; but I have found 

 them to be dextrorsely convolute. 



Anechites, Grriseb. (char, reformato). Sepala 5, lanceolata, intus squamulis totidem obtusis ssepius 

 dentieulatis nmnita. Corolla hypocrateriformis ; tubus anguste cylindricus ; segmenta 5, oblonga, 

 inaequilatera, rotata, dextrorsum convoluta. Stamina medio tubi inserta, inclusa ; filamenta tenuia. 

 AnthercE anguste lineares, apice cuspidatae, imo furcis 3 brevibus armatse. Discus suburceolatns, 

 usque ad medium vel ultra in lobos 5 fissus ; ovaria 2, libera, longiora. Stylus fiHformis ; clavuncula 

 incrassata. Folliculi 2, Hneari-teretes, parallelij semina comosa. 



Plantae Antillan<B vel Brasilienses, humiles, volubiles aut scandentes ; folia opposita ovata aut 

 oblonga, interdum cordata, petiolata ; racemi axillares, simplices, pedunculati ; flores pauci, alterni, 

 pedicellati. 



1. Anechites adglutinata, nob. : Echites adglutinata, Jacq. (non Burm.) Amer. p. 31, tab. 23; A. DC. 



I. c. p. 448 : Echites circinalis, Griseb. (non Svr.) Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 414. In Antillis : v. s. in herb. 

 Mus. Brit. S. Domingo (Swartz) ; S. Lucia (sine nom.). 



A climbing plant, with slender glabrous branches ; leaves broadly ovate, rounded at 

 the base, round and emarginate at the summit with a short mucronate point, rarely 

 subobtuse, pallidly membranaceous, glabrous, pale green above, yellowish opake beneath, 

 with reddish midrib and nerves scarcely prominulent, 2;|-3:| (sometimes 4) in. long, 

 1^2| in. broad, on petioles 3-4 lines long ; racemes axillary, 1^ in. long including the 

 bare peduncle (9 lines long) , which supports about 5 alternate flowers on pedicels 1 line 

 long ; sepals acute, ^ line long ; tube of corolla cylindrical, a little swollen in the middle, 

 4 lines long; segments oblong-lanceolate, 3 lines long; stamens inserted above the 

 middle of the tube ; anthers cuspidate, included, bidentate at the base ; disk shorter than 

 the 2 free ovaries ; follicles 2, terete, agglutinated at the apex. 



2. Anechites circinalis, nob. : Echites circinalis, Sw. Flor. Ind. Occid. i. p. 533 ; ejusd. Prodr. p. 52 : 



A. DC. /. c. p. 466 ; Griseb. /. c. p. 414 : Echites adglutinata, Griseb. (non Sw.), I. c. p. 414 : 

 H<Bmadictyon circinalis, Don, Diet. iv. p. 83. In Hispaniola et Jamaica : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 

 Jamaica (Shakespear). 



A slender scandent plant, with glabrous branches and distant axils ; leaves ovate- 

 oblong, obtusely rounded at the base, gradually acute, yellowish green above, sulcate along 

 the reddish midrib, nerves reddish, immersed, margins very revolute, scabridulous above, 

 pale yellow beneath, opake and glabrous, with prominent reddish midrib, nerves, and 

 veins, l|-2 in. long, 10 lines broad, on petioles 3 lines long ; raceme lateral, glabrous, 

 on a bare peduncle 2-3 in. long, erect, bearing many white flowers on alternate or, often, 

 geminate pedicels 1 line long, with small acute bracteoles; sepals lanceolate, erect, 



