260 ON SOUTH-AMEEICAN APOCTNACE^. 



lanceolate, 6 lines long ; tube of corolla 8 lines long ; segments acute, 2 lines long ; 

 stamens included, coheriag in a cone ; follicles 2, erect, parallel or sUghtly curved, 5 in. 

 long, 1| line thick. 



3. Laseguea emarginata, a. DC. I. c. p. 481 ; Miill. /. c. p. 136 : Echites emarginata, Velloz, I. c. 



p. 113, Icon. iii. tab. 46. In Brasilia : v. s. in herb. Mm. Brit. prov. central. (Claussen). 



A species near the preceding, having a tuberous root, an erect stem with few short 

 branches and with axils 2-3 in. apart, everywhere pubescent ; leaves ovate, subcordate 

 at the base, emarginate at the summit, scabrid above, sulcate along the nerves, paler 

 and pubescent beneath, with prominent midrib and very ascending reddish nerves, 2-2| 

 in. long, 1^1^ in. broad, on petioles 2 lines long; racemes axillary and terminal, 

 narrowly cylindrical, 6 in. long, pubescent ; peduncle quadrangular, clothed with many 

 imbricating acutely lanceolate qoloured bracts 6 lines long ; pedicels 6-8 lines long ; 

 sepals luaear, 8' lines long ; tube of corolla greenish white, cylindrical, gradually 

 narrower upwards, 6 lines long ; segments oval, 2 lines long, with dextrorse convolution ; 

 stamens included in the upper portion of the tube. 



4. Laseguea glabra, A. DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. 3* ser. i. p. 262; Walp. Rep. vi. p. 477. In Brasilia, 



prov, Rio Grande do Sul : non vidi. 



A species evidently distinct from any of the preceding : it is an erect shrub, every- 

 where glabrous ; leaves approximate, acutely ovate, the nerves patently prominent 

 beneath, with reticulate veius, 3 in. long, 1^ in. broad; raceme terminal, cylindrical, 

 erect, glabrous, 1 in. long, bearing many approximate flowers furnished with acutely 

 oblong bracts 6 lines long, 1^ line broad, covering pedicels 4 lines long ; sepals obtusely 

 oblong, 6 lines long. 



5. Laseguea obliquinervia, A. DC. Ann. Sc. Nat. 3^ ser. i. p. 261 ; Walp. Rep. vi. p. 477 : Laseguea 



Guilleminiana, var. obliquinervia, MiiU. /. c. p. 135. In Brasilia, prov. S. Paulo : non vidi. 



An erect plant, with branches densely and fasciculately pilose ; leaves obovate, obtuse, 

 mUcronulate at the apex, subglabrous above, with oblique nerves and reticulated veins, 

 incano-pubescent beneath, 2^3 in. long, 2-2| in. broad, subsessile ; raceme 5 in. long ; 

 peduncle bare at the base, bearing above many flowers on straight pedicels 6 lines long, 

 covered by linear-lanceolate subglabrous bracts of the same length; sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, subglabrous, narrower at the base, 10 lines long, 1 line broad. 



6. Laseguea villosa, nob. : ramulis substrictis, dense pilosis ; axillis subremotis : foliis oblongis, immn 



versus angustioribus, et hie profundiuscule cordatis, apice repente et longe cuspidatis, supra fiisco- 

 viridibus, sparse et longe pilosis, subtus ferrugineo-opacis, pUosulis, ad nervos prominentes sparse 

 hirsutis ; petiolis tenuibus, longe pilosis : racemo laterali, subrecurvo, imo pedunculato, mox asper- 

 gUliformi, cum bracteis numerosis longiusculis imbricatis, multifloro ; floribus subparvis ; bracteis 

 oblongis, longe cuspidatis, membranaceis, nervo mediano puberulis ; pedicellis brevissimis, hispi- 

 dulis; sepaJis anguste lanceolatis, cuspidatis, medio pilosulis ; corolla tubulosa, lutea, fauce san- 

 guinea ; tubo subbrevi, bractea pauUo lougiore, imo ampliore, pilosulo ; segmentis brevibus, 

 dextrorsum convolutis. In America centrali : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. Nicaragua (Seemann 95). 



The axils are 3| in. apart; the leaves 6^ in. long including the basal sinus (6 lines 



