246 ON SOUTH-AMERICAN APOCYNACE^. 



8. FoRSTERONiA AusTRAiis, Mull. I. c. p. 103. In Brasilia australiore, prov. Sao Paulo (Sellow) : v. s. 

 in herb. Mus. Brit. Brasilia merid. (Sellow, Bowie and Cunningham). 



Branches slender, fuscous, sparsely verruculose, glabrous, with axils 1^3 in. apart ; 

 leaves elliptic or obovate, obtuse or subacute at the base, with a suddenly constricted 

 acute acumen, flaccidly chartaceous, very glabrous, above fuscous-green, with about 9 

 pairs of prominulent diverging nerves and immersed reticulated veins, brownish opake 

 beneath, with prominulent nerves and veins, 2^3^ in. long, 1^2;^ in. broad, on slender 

 channelled petioles 3-4 lines long ; panicle terminal in the young branchlets, 2^ in. long, 

 oppositely branching from the base, and again divided ; branchlets f in. apart, sublaxly 

 many-flowered on bracteolate tomentellous pedicels 1^2 lines long ; sepals ovate, obtuse, 

 tomentellous, with ciliolate margins ; corolla 2-2^ lines long ; tube very short ; segments 

 obliquely ovate, densely pilose inside. 



9. FoRSTERONiA OBTUsiLOBA, MiiU. Linn. XXX. p. 413. In Caracas : non 



A species said to be near F. australis, with reddish fuscous branchlets ; leaves ovate, 

 somewhat acute at the base, shortly acuminate, very glabrous, membranaceous, 2 in. 

 long, If in. broad, on petioles 1^2 lines long ; panicle terminal, 2f in. long, pyramidal, 

 patently and shortly branched, the branchlets again divided and densely flowered ; corolla 



2 lines long, glabrous, with a very short tube hispid in the mouth ; segments acutely 

 oblong, shortly tomentellous ; disk of 5 nearly free obtuse lobes ; ovaries ovoid, subto- 

 menteUous at the apex. 



10. FoRSTERONiA ACUTiFOLiA, Miill. Fl. Bras. xxvi. p. 99. In Brasilia ad Rio de Janeiro : v. s. in herb. 

 Mus. Brit. I. c. (Sellow, Bowie and Cunningham). 



It has a twining branch, with a resilient bark ; branches very slender, pale brown, 

 lenticellate, more or less puberulous; leaves ovate-oblong, subacute at the base, sud- 

 denly acutely acuminate at the summit, chartaceous, glabrous above, fuscous green, 

 with 7 pairs of slender, scarcely prominulent, divergent nerves and transverse reticulate 

 veins, darkly ferruginous beneath, subpuberulous, with reddish prominulent nerves, 



3 in. long. If in. broad, on very slender petioles 5 lines long ; panicles axillary and 

 terminal, 3 in. long, bare at the base for \ in., rather narrow, densely ferrugineo- 

 puberulous, with short branches 4-6 lines apart, divided and bearing many very small 

 approximate flowers on slender pedicels f line long ; sepals acutely ovate, f line long ; 

 corolla 2 lines long, tube very short. 



11. FoRSTERONiA PROTENSA, Dob. : FoTsteroma acutifolia, var. pubescens, Miill. (non A. DC.) I. c. p. 99. 

 In Brasilia circa Rio de Janeiro (Sellow) : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, ex I. c. (Sellow, Bowie and 

 Cunningham). 



A scandent species, with slender flexuose branchlets, pale brown, striolate, and lenti- 

 cellate, with axils 1^ in. apart ; leaves elliptic-oblong, acute at the base, suddenly con- 

 stricted towards the apex into a long, straight, linear, obtusulous acumen, chartaceous, 

 glaucous opake and fuscous-green above, with about 7 pairs of slender, diverging, semi- 



