288 MR. J. MIERS OK THE SYMPLOCACEjE. 



Ciponima, Anbl., Cav., Juss., Gaertner. — Symplocos, in part e t 



auctor. 



Flores hermaphroditi, subparvi. Calyx pro dimidia parte ad ovarium 

 connatus, limbi lobis 5, erectis, liberis, basi pluribracteatus. Corolla 

 tubulosa ; tubus calycem duplo superans, fauce coarctatus ; limb us 5- 

 partitus; segment a oblonga, obtusa, patentia, sestivatione quincuncia- 

 liter imbricata, ssepe cum staminibus calyptratim dccidua. Stamina 

 circ. 30, subinaequalia, biserialia, exteriora sublongiora; filamenta pro 

 dimidia parte inferiore in tubum monadelphum arete agglutinate, hoc 

 ad corollam connatum, omnia simul decidua, pro dimidia parte su- 

 periore libera, angustissime linearia et filiformia, ultra faucem divergen- 

 tia ; antherce rotundatse, striatae, bilobse, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 

 Ovarium semiinferum, rotundum, 4-loculare, loculis uniovulatis; ovula 

 erecta, peculiariter ad basin affixa. Stylus subulatus. Stigma capitato- 

 quadrilobum. Drupa ovato-oblonga, carne pulposa tecta. Nux ovata, 

 striolata, ossea, durissima, 4- raro 5-locularis, loculis monospermis. 

 Semen acuminato-subcylindricum, supra basin perspicue strumosum, 

 basi affixum j integumentum fuscum, tenuiter membranaceum ; embryo 

 in albumine carnoso centralis ; radicula infera, longissime et tenuiter 

 teres, supra basin obtusam valde clavata, erecta ; cotyledones 2, mi- 

 y superse, acutae, divergentes. 



Arbores in America tropicali vigentes, ramosce; flores parvi; folia rfwp- 

 tica, breviter petiolata ; racemi breves, pauciflori ; flores parvi. 



1. Ciponima auiAKENSis, Axibl. PI. Guyan. i. p. 567, tab. 226 ; 

 Lam. Diet. ii. p. 11 ; lllustr. tab. 455 ; Cavan. Dissert, iii. p. 337, 

 tab. 217; Gaertn. Fruct. iii. p. 139, tab. 209. fig. 1.— Symplocos 

 Ciponima, Witt3.8p.Bl. iii. p. 1435; Z' Serif. Linn. ZV*M.Lp.l76; 



Meyer, Esseq. p. 248 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. p. 250. In Guiana : non 

 vidi. 



2. C. scabridula, nob. — Symplocos Ciponima, A. DC. (non 

 L'Berit.) 1. c. in parte, p. 250. In Guiana Brit. : v. s. in htrb. 

 meo (9115), Guiana (Schomb. sub no. 383). 



A species very different from that figured by Aublet or Cava- 

 nilles : its leaves are little more than half their length, are quite 

 oval, with an extremely short, obtuse, apical contraction, fuscous 

 green above, margin subre volute and obsoletely denticulate, 

 ochraceo- or croceo-opaque and densely punctulate-scabrid beneath. 



The plant described and the analysis figured by Miquel in Flor. 

 Bras. fasc. xvii. p. 23, tab. 8. fig. 2, as the Ciponima of Aublet, 

 certainly does not belong to that genus ; it is the Symplocos para- 

 ensis, Popp. & Endl., enumerated in a preceding page (p. 287). 





