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ECHITES DIFFORMIS. 



Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. Apocyneae, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Contorted. Calix 5-parted, small. Corolla salverform, border 5-cleft, orifice naked. 

 Anthers rigid, acuminate, convergent into a cone, "cohering to the stigma by the 

 middle." R. Brown. Style 1. Stigma annulate, capitulum 2-lobed. Follicles 2, 

 very long and straight. Seed comose. Nutt. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem climbing ; the lower leaves linear-lanceolate, the upper oval-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, invested beneath with a villous pubescence ; raceme cymose ; stamens included ; 

 segments of the border of the corolla equilateral. B. 



SYNONYM. 



Echites puberula, Mich. 1. p. 120. 

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