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J line long ; tube of corolla cylindricalj 3 lines long, narrower at tlie base for one third of 

 its length, with a row of villous scales in the throat ; segments linear-oblong, crispate 

 along the margins, 2^ lines long, somewhat twisted dextrorsely, rotate ; stamens seated 

 at the constriction of the tube ; filaments slender ; anthers included, acuminate, shortly 

 bidentate at the base ; disk of 5 lobes ; style, clavuncle, and stigmata as in the generic 

 character ; follicles 2. 



The Uchites circmalis, Griseb. (non Sw.) is said by the authors of the ' Genera Plan- 

 tarum,' ii. p. 725, to be a cultivated specimen of Solarrhena antidysenterica. 



The JBchites circinalis, Miill., does not belong to this species : it is the Echites 

 lepfoloba, Stadehn. (Miiozus, nob.), and the Echites revoluta, A. DC. I. c. p. 457 {Ane- 

 chites revoluta, nob.). 



A drawing of this species, showing its floral analysis, is given in Plate XXXIII. b. 



3. Anechites Thomasiana, nob. : Echites circinalis, var. Thomasiana, A. DC. I. c. p. 466 ; Schleclit. (non 



Sw.), Linn. vi. 731. In umbrosis ins. S. Thomse : non vidi. 



A species differing from A. circmalis in its leaves acute at both extremities, in its 

 longer racemes, with pubescent peduncle, calyx, and corolla, in its more revolute sepals, 

 and its corolla twice the size, with the tube scarcely ventricose. 



4. Anechites asperuginiSj nob. : Echites asperuginis, Sw. Prodr. p. 52 ; Flor. Ind. Occid. i. p. 531 ; 



Griseb. PI. Wr. Cub. p. 519 ; Cat. PI. Wr. p. 170, n, 10 : Echites circinalis, Griseb. (non Sw.), var. 

 adglutinata, PI. B. W. Ind. p. 414 : Echites lappulacea, var. asperuginis, A. DC. /. c. p. 448. In 

 AntiUis : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. S. Domingo (Swartz, specim. typicum) ; Cuba (Wright 1663) . 



A scandent plant, with slender hispid branches ; the axils are 2J-3 in. apart ; leaves 

 eUiptic-oblong, acute at both ends, or obtusely acute and gradually more acuminate, 

 very membranaceous, green above, sparsely subhispid, with hairs globular at their 

 base, with fine nerves, paler and glabrous beneath, with black dots corresponding 

 to the hairs of the upper surface, prominent yellow midrib, patently hirsute, nerves 

 little prominulent, 2-3 in. long, 9-15 lines broad, on slender petioles 5-7 lines long ; 

 racemes axillary, longer than the leaves ; peduncle slender, 4^ lines long, bearing 

 upwards 4-6 flowers on slender hirsutulous pedicels 6 lines long ; sepals acutely lanceo- 

 late, 1^ line long, glabrous ; corolla white, its tube slender, subpentagonous, twice the 

 length of the sepals ; segments obtusely ovate ; stamens inserted in the middle of the 

 tube ; lobes of disk oblong, emarginate, half the length of the 2 ovaries ; 2 slender terete 

 follicles. 



5. Anechites lappulacea, nob. : Echites lappulacea, Lam. Diet. ii. p. 341 ; A. DC. I. c. p. 448 : Nerium 



caule volubili. Plum. Amer. i. p. 19, tab. 36 (excl. syn.). In S. Domingo : non vidi. 



A sarmentose plant, with a thick repent root and many stoutish climbing branches, 

 which are verrucose; leaves ovate-oblong, subcordate, with an obtuse apical acumen, 

 shining above, densely hispid beneath, 4 in. long. If in. broad, on glabrous petioles 

 5-9 lines long ; racemes axillary, nearly 10 in. long, upon a hispid peduncle ; flowers 

 spicate in opposite pairs on pedicels |-1 in. apart (fructiferous pedicels 1-lJ in. apart) ; 



