Urechites
(from oura, a tail, and Echites, an allied genus; in allusion to the twisted appendages of the corolla). ORD. Apocynaceae. A small genus (four species ?) of prostrate or twining, glabrous or puberulous, stove undershrubs, natives of the West Indies and Mexico. Flowers usually ample; calyx five-parted, glandular inside at base; corolla funnel-shaped, with a short, cylindrical tube, a long tubular-campanulate throat, and five broad, twisted lobes; stamens affixed at the top of the tube; racemes simple, often few-flowered, or reduced to two flowers. Leaves opposite, penniveined. Only one species calls for mention here. For culture, see Dipladenia. U. sub-erecta (nearly erect). fl. full-yellow, large, on short pedicels; peduncle terminal, hairy, bearing a loose, four to six-flowered cyme. May. l. shortly petiolate, ovate or oval, nearly elliptical, but rather acute at each end; young ones (and branches) loosely silky. Stem shrubby in the older portions. New Grenada, 1845. SYNS. Dipladenia flava (B. M. 4702), Echites suberecta (B. M. 1064).