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HIPPOCRATEACE£. 
Panicled-flowered Hippocratea. Shrub cl. 
17 H. Ricwarpia‘na (St. Hil. fl. bras. 2. p. 102.) leaves 
elliptic-oblong, bluntish, nearly entire, smooth ; panicles puberu- 
lous, equal in length with the leaves ; calyx puberulous, ciliated; 
petals much longer than the calyx, acutish, puberulous ; capsule 
obovate, obtuse, 4-seeded. h.^. S. Native of Senegal. 
Richard’s Hippocratea. Shrub cl. 
18 H. macrorny'LLA (Vahl. enum. 2. p. 28.) carpels? pa- 
nicles axillary, dichotomous, shorter than the leaves; leaves 
ovate, quite entire, shining, blunt at the base, but acuminated at 
the apex. h.%.?S. Native of Sierra Leone. Leaves pale- 
green, as in the preceding species. 
Long-leaved Hippocratea. Shrub cl.? 
19 H. verutr'na (Afz. in Spreng. new entd. 3. p. 234.) car- 
pels? racemes axillary ; leaves oblong, acuminated, quite en- 
tire, veiny beneath, as well as being clothed with rufous villi. 
hk. S. Native of Guinea. 
Velvety Hippocratea. Shrub 6 feet? 
20 H. I’npica (Willd. spec. 1. p. 193.) carpels oblong, 2- 
seeded; panicles corymbose, dichotomous, about the length of 
the Jeaves ; leaves oval, acute, serrated, shining. h. ©. S. 
Native of Coromandel on wooded mountains. Roxb. cor. 2. t. 
130. Flowers yellowish. 
Var, B, dispérma (Vahl. enum. 2. p. 28.) carpels lanceolate, 
obtuse at both ends; panicles shorter than the leaves; leaves 
elliptical, acuminated, serrulated. h. ©. S. Native of the 
East Indies in woody mountains. 
Var. y, euonymoides (Vahl. enum. 2. p- 28.) leaves oblong or 
obovate, entire or emarginate at the apex. h.^. S. Flowers 
greenish-white, 
Indian Hippocratea. Shrub cl. 
21 H. ostusirdx1a (Roxb. fl. ind. 1. p. 170.) carpels obovate, 
meded ; corymbs terminal and axillary; leaves elliptical-ob- 
ong, entire, blunt; branches tendrilled. h.^. S. Native of 
oromandel. Flowers greenish-yellow. Anthers 2-lobed. 
Blunt-leaved Hippocratea. Clt. 1818. Shrub cl. 
22 H. ARBÒREA (Roxb. cor. 3. t. 205.) carpels linear-oblong, 
pomewhat cuneated, 2-seeded ; corymbs axillary, dichotomous ; 
faves elliptical, serrulated, terminating in a point; branches 
ee enat climbing. h. S. Native of Hindostan. Flowers 
~6-cleft, greenish-yellow. Anthers 4-lobed. 
23 H 7 Ppocratea. Clt. 1818. Tree 20 feet. 
+ CAssINoIDEs (D. C. prod. 1. p. 569.) carpels? 
_ Corymbs axillary, dichotomous, 3 times shorter than the leaves ; 
mane elliptical, acuminated at both ends, somewhat serrulated, 
<r membranaceous; branches compressed at the apex. h . S. 
e of the Island of Timor. 
Deke Hippocratea. Shrub 6 feet? 
** Pauctrtora (D. C. prod. 1. p. 565.) carpels? 
that axillary, dichotomous, PT flowered, scarcely longer 
lated. e petioles ; leaves elliptical-oblong, very bluntly crenu- 
lines in k ©? S. Native of the Island of Timor. Flowers 4 
om ‘ameter. Anthers somewhat 4-lobed. 
powered Hippocratea. Shrub cl. 
* ELLI PTICA (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 138.) 
mek peduncles clothed with very fine ‘down, dichotomously 
motely o shorter than the leaves ; leaves elliptical, acute, re- 
ative ofM elated ; branches quadrangular. hk.^?S. 
ling ™“exico. Flowers greenish-white. 
p tcal-leaved Hippocratea. Shrub cl.? - 
carpels ? Bake Lsa (H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 7. p. 136.) 
imes ¢ ope uncles bifid, many-flowered, powdery-hairy, 3 or 4 
rter than the leaves; leaves elliptical-oblong, acumi- 
cen” ~crenulated ; younger branches quadrangular ; stem 
Tally; k.S. Native of Mexico. Flowers yellow. 
‘Ppocratea. Tree 20 feet. 
I. HIPPOCRATEA. 
. 1-seeded from abortion. 
627 
Cult. These shrubs are hardly worth cultivating unless in 
botanic gardens; the flowers being very minute, and without 
beauty. The species will thrive in a mixture of loam and peat, 
and ripened cuttings will root in sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 
II. RADDI'SIA (in honour of Giuseppe Raddi, an Italian 
botanist and traveller in Brazil, author of Nove Species Cryp- 
togamicee Firenze, 1808, and other works). Leand. sacram. in 
denk. sckr. munch. akad. 7. p. 244. t. 15. ex Schult. mant. 1. 
p. 252. D.C. prod. 1. p. 570. 
Lin. syst. T'ridndria, Monogynia. Calyx of 5 sepals. 
Corolla rotate, 5-cleft, with a ring girding the ovary on the out- 
side of the stamens. Stamens 3, with linear filaments, and 2- 
celled anthers? Pistil longer than the stamens. Style short. 
Capsule 3-celled ; cells many-seeded. Seeds rather globose, 
fixed to the central axis. This genus is perhaps sufficiently dis- 
tinct from Salacia. 
1 R. arporea (Leand. l. c. Schrank. 1l. c. p. 244. ex Schult. 
mant. 1. p. 347.) h.S. Native of Brazil on the borders of 
Islands at the entrance to Rio Janeiro. Leaves elliptical, acute, 
smooth, serrated on short stalks. Flowers small, axillary, soli- 
tary or aggregate, greenish-yellow. 
Tree Raddisia. Tree 20 feet. 
Cult. This tree bears very insignificant flowers; therefore 
not worth cultivating except in botanic gardens. It will thrive 
in a mixture of loam and peat, and ripened cuttings will root in 
sand under a hand-glass, in heat. 
II. SALA‘CIA (from Salacia in mythology, wife of Nep- 
tune). Lin. mant. 293.—Toutélea, Aubl. guian. 1. p. 31.— 
Tonsélla, Schreb. gen. no. 74.—Sicélium, R. Brown, ex Poir. 
suppl. 5. p. 146.—A/nthodon, Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 1. p. 45. 
D. C. prod. 1. p. 569.—A'nthodus, Mart. in Schult. mant. 1. 
. 253. 
P Lin. syst. Triándria, Monogýnia. Calyx 5-parted; lobes 
rounded. Petals 5, entire or toothed, inserted between the disk 
and the ovary. Stamens 3, inserted between the disk and the 
ovary ; filaments dilated at the base, free; anthers terminal, 1- 
„celled, opening transversely at the apex. Style short or want- 
ing. Stigma 3-lobed. Ovary more or less immersed in the 
disk, 3-celled, containing from 2 to 10 ovulæ in each cell, which 
are fixed to the inner angle of the cells, disposed in a double or 
triple series. Berry somewhat globose, fleshy, 2-3-celled ; cells 
Seeds ovate, enwrapped in mucilage. 
—Small trees and shrubs, rarely climbing, with entire leaves, 
deciduous stipulas ; axillary, dichotomous panicles of greenish or 
yellowish flowers, or umbellate from abortion. 
II. Rapprsra. III. Saractra. 
§ 1. A’ntHopon (from avðoc, anthos, a flower, and odove 
odorroc, odous odontos, a tooth; petals toothed). Petals fringed 
or toothed (f. 105. b.). 
1 S. pecussa'ta (Ruiz et Pav. fl. per. 1. t. 74. f. 2. under 
A'nthodon,) leaves oblong-ovate, somewhat acuminated, bluntly 
serrated, shining ; panicles axillary, dichotomous ; petals ovate- 
oblong, sharply serrated. .S. Native of Peru in groves on 
the Andes, and near Angustura, ex. H. B. et Kunth, nov. gen. 
amer. 5. p. 140. t. 443. Hippocratéa? A’nthodon, Pers. ench. 
1. p. 40. Tonsélla decussata, Vahl. enum. 1. p. 30. 
Decussate-leaved Salacia. Shrub 6 feet. 
2 S. panicuna'TA (Mart. l. c. under A’nthodus,) leaves ovate, 
pluntish, obsoletely and rather undulately-crenated ; flowers 
panicled ; petals oval, unequally and remotely toothed. h.S. 
Native of Brazil at Rio Janeiro. All other particulars unknown, 
as well as those of the following. 
Panicled-flowered Salacia. Clt. 1818. Shrub 6 feet. 
3 S. uxpura ra (Mart. l. c. under A'nthodus,) leaves elliptic, 
acute, tapering to both ends, bluntly, and rather undulately-ser- 
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