Macroscepis
(from makros, long, and skepe, a covering; in allusion to the size of the calyx). ORD. Asclepiadeae. A small genus (three or four closely related species) of stove, climbing sub-shrubs, natives of Peru, Columbia, and Central America. Flowers rather large, in clustered, axillary cymes; calyx segments five, ovate-lanceolate; corolla tube ovoid or broadly cylindrical, the limb thick, five-lobed, broadly spreading. Leaves opposite, ample, cordate. M. obovata, the only species calling for mention here, requires similar treatment to Physianthus (which see, on p. 115, Vol. III.).
M. obovata (obovate-leaved). fl., corolla yellowish-brown, 1in. in diameter. November. l. shortly petiolate, 4in. to 6in. long, obovate, contracted above the cordate base. Western tropical America, 1884. Plant densely hirsute. (B.M.6815.)