Echites panduratus A. DC.

Fernaldia pandurata (A. DC.) Woodson, Ann. Mo
Bot, Gard. 19: 48. 1932.
Echites pandurata A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 458. 1844.
Urechites Karwinskii Muell.-Arg. Ivinnaea 30: 440. 1860.
Amblyanthera pandurata Muell.-Arg. Linnaea 30: 448. I860.
Angadenia pandurata Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 182, 1878.
Mandevilla velutina K. Schumann, in E, & P. Nat. Pfl. 42; 171. 1895.
Mandevilla potosina Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 276. 1912.
Echites pinguifolia Standley, Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 8: 35. 1930.
Fruticose or suffruticose liana, densely puberulent to glabrate throughout; leaves membranaceous, oblong-elliptic to broadly ovate, 4-13 cm. long, 1.5-8 cm. broad, shortly acuminate, the lowermost usually broadly cordate, the upper merely obtuse to subtruncate at the base, the petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence usually somewhat shorter than the subtending leaves, bearing 8-18 rather showy, white to pale-greenish-yellow flowers; pedicels 4r-6 mm. long, 173
minutely puberulent; bracts ovate, 1-2 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute to obtuse, 2-3 mm. long, minutely puberulent to papillate externally; corolla infundibuliform, essentially glabrous externally, or the lobes more or less ciliate, the tube proper 20-22 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. in diameter at the base, somewhat gibbous or arcuate at the insertion of the stamens, the throat broadly campanulateconic, 9-12 mm. long, 7-9 mm. in diameter at the orifice, the lobes obliquely obovate, 10-13 mm. long, densely arachnoidvillous at the base within, spreading; follicles unknown.
Type locawty: Near Oaxaca, Oaxaca. SalvS^o^^^^^^^^^* '^^™^"^'P^^' ^^" ^^^^ Potosi, Vera Cruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Yucatan; Ili^ustration : Ann. Mo. Bot. Card. 23: pL 5.

Fernaldia brachypharynx Woodson, Ann. Mo. Bot
Gard. 19: 380. 1932.
Fruticose or suffruticose liana, minutely puberulent to glabrate throughout; leaves membranaceous, broadly ovate, 7-10 cm. long, 5-7 cm. broad, shortly and abruptly acuminate, broadly rounded at the base, the petioles 9-20 mm. long; inflorescences somewhat shorter than the leaves, bearing few to several, rather showy, cream-colored flowers; pedicels 4^5 mm. long; bracts ovate, 1-2 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, scarious or only slightly foliaceous, minutely pilosulous externally; corolla infundibuliform, generally pilosulous externally, the tube proper 18-20 mm. long, about 3 mm. in diameter at the base, the throat narrowly conic, 16-18 mm. long, about 7 mm. in diameter at the orifice, the lobes obliquely obovate, 1214 mm. long, arachnoidvillous at the base within, spreading; follicles unknown.
Type i^ocality: Between Escuintla and San Jos^, Guatemala. Distribution: Guatemala.