Babeiro

Prestonia agglutinata (Jacq.) Woodson, Ann, Mo
Bot. Gard. 18: 552. 1931.
Echites agglutinata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 13. 1760.
Echites adglutinata Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Am. 31. 1763.
Echites circinalis Sw. Prodr. 52. 1788.
Echites sanguinolenta Tussac, Fl. Ant. 1: 95. 1808.
? Echites variegata Schrad. Goett. Gel. Anz. 1821: 707.
H aemadictyon circinalis G. Don, Gen. Hist. 4: 83. 1838.
Echites leptoloha Stadelm. Flora 24: Beibl. 1: 15. 1841.
Haemadictyon nutans var. sanguinolenta A; DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 426. 1844.
Echites revoluta A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 457. 1844.
Echites circinalis var. Thomasiana A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 466. 1844.
Temnadenia leptoloha Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 211. 1878.
Anechites adglutinata Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 236. 1878.
Anechites circinalis Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 236. 1878.
Anechites Thomasiana Miers, Apoc. S. Am. 237. 1878.
Suffruticose liana, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves firmly membranaceous, ellipticoblong to broadly oval, 4^12 cm. long, 2-8 cm. broad, shortly acuminate, obtuse or rounded at the base, opaque, the petioles 12-25 mm. long; inflorescence relatively elongate and lax, simple, bearing 10-20 pale greenish-white flowers; peduncle more or less flexuous, usually somewhat longer than the subtending leaves; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; bracts ovate-lanceolate, scarious to subfoliaceous, about as long as the pedicels; calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 mm. long, scarious or slightly foliaceous; corolla salverform, glabrous externally, the tube 7-8 mm. long, about 1 nrni. in diameter at the base, not appendaged within, the faucal annulus thin and relatively inconspicuous, the lobes obliquely oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about 5 mm. long, reflexed; anthers inserted about the middle of the coroUa-tUbe, wholly included, glabrous; nectaries separate, fleshy, about half as long as the ovary; follicles unknown.
Type locality: Near Cap Frangais, now Cap Haitien, HaUi. Distribution: Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.