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1'" long : lobes triangular j corolla crimson, ovate, contracted above, 3'" long : limb erecfr, 

 i'" long, with the lobes triangular ; sexual organs included.— Hab. Trinidad (jSieb.) ; [Gua- 

 deloupe !, on the top of the mountains-, Venezuela I, New Granada I]. 



SuBTKiBE a. VACCINIEM— Calyx adnate. 

 4. SPHYROSPEEMTJM, Pospp., Endl. 



Calyx-Umh 4-5-toothed. Corolla^ ovate-urceolate. Stamens 4-5, distinct : anther-cells 

 distinct above, tapering into a narrow tube, opening with an oval foramen. Ovary 3-4-5- 

 celled : cells multiovmate. Pericarp haccate. — Epiphytical altrahs ; lea.vea distichous ; -pe- 

 dicelsfilijform, axillary, simple. 



7. S. majus, Gr. {in PI. Leehl.). Branchlets and petioles puberulous ; leaves opate^ 

 obtusate. Hunt, subcordate at the base, glabrous : petiole very short ; pedicels solitary, as 

 long as the leaf; calyx-tube pilose, globose ; anthers 4, bifid to the middle.-— Allied to 5. 

 iuxifolium, Poepp., but leaves larger, and berry (in the Peruvian specimens) 4-ceHed. 

 Branches rooting on trees ; leaves 1" long, 8'" broad ; pedicels cernuous, thicliened at the top, 

 nearly glabrous ; calyx 1'" long, covered with long white hairs ; corolla 3'" long, as long as 

 the stamens : its limb very short, recurved, 4-partite : the tube slit at the base or separated 

 into four very short claws ; connective bearing some hairs. — Hab. Trinidad !, C!r. ; [Peru!]. 



5. SOPHOCLESIA, Kl. 



Calyx-limb spreading, 4-5-tooth,ed or entire. Corolla tubulose, turgid above the base. 

 Stamens 8-10, distinct : filaments alternately unequal : anther-oeUs distinct and tubuliforra 

 from the middle, opening vrith an oval or oblong foramen. Ovary 3-4-5-celled : cells 

 multiovnlate : style exserted. Berry dry. — Epiphytical shrubs : haiit of Sphyrospermum. 



8. S. apophysata, Gr. [fi. sp.). Glabrous; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, with a 

 bluntish point ; pedicels subsoKtary, jointed and bibracteolate at the middle, twice or more 

 exceeded by the leaf ; calyx-tube swelling at the base into an annular apophysis : limb 

 entire. — ^An evergreen shrub: branches flaccid; leaves 3"— 1" long, 18"'-8"' broad, rigid, 

 quite entire, revolute on the margin, obsoletely quintuplinerved, polished and veinless beneath : 

 petiole 4"'-3"' long, flat above ; pedicels 4"'-8'" long : braoteoles -j'" long, ovate, contiguous 

 at the base ; calyx 3'" long and broad ; tube shortly campanulate, shorter than the spreading 

 limb ; apophysis convex on the margin and concave on the under side ; coroUa 8'" long, 

 1'" diaipi. above, 3'" above the base: limb erect, 5 -partite 1 segments linear, blunt, six times 

 shorter than the tube ; stamens very unequal, the longer ones not exceeding half the corolla : 

 anthers punctate-scabrous, IJ'" long, linear, shorter than the long and longer than the short 

 filaments, inserted to the filament above their base ; stigma simple, mmute ; ovary 5-celled, 

 protruding above its adnate base. — Hab. Trinidad !, Pd., Cr., in the hot region between 

 Arima and Aripa de Abaja, Tocuche. 



6. THIBAUDIA, Kth. 



Calyx-limb 5-lobed. Corolla tubulose, turgid above the base. Stamens 10, distinct, of 

 equal length : anther-cells distinct, tapering above into a narrow tube, opening with an elour 

 gated foramen. Ovary 5-celled : sells multiovnlate. Berry dry. — Evergreen shrubs ; flowers 

 ■usually in axillary racemes or cor:, 



9. T. latifolia, Gr. («. sp^. Branchlets glabrous, cylindrical; leaves elliptical or 

 ronmdish, septuplmemed, shortly cuueate at the base, glabrous ; racemes lax, usually aggre- 

 gate, pubescent together with the small flowers ; bracts lanceo^te, smaU, one at the base of 

 the pedicel and two above it. — This species does not answer to any of the sections which 

 Klotzsch has separated as genera from Thibaudia, but it is allied to my Pemvian Th.poly- 

 anfha. Crueger remarks that the corolla-tube is double, -and both tubes 5,fid : this may 

 have been a monstrosity, as it is uotsoinhis specimens. — leaves 9"-3" long, 5"-3i" broad, 

 sharply pointleted or bluntish, quite entire, leathery, with the nerves prominnlous beneathi: 

 petiole 8'"-3"' long, 2'" broad, enlarged into the cuneate leaf-base ; racemes usually 2-5 in 

 each axil, sessile, 3"-l" long, surrounded at the base by minute, subulate bracts, wholly co- 



