FLOKA OP TIIE ISTUMXIS OF PANAMA. 1G5 
It is a character common to all MacJeanice to have large tuberous roots, at least I have never serai a 
species without them. The present has often tubers weighing as many as two pounds. Some MaclcanuB 
have been called parasitical, but they are never truly so in the modem acceptation of that term ; epiphytical 
they are frequently, growing on trees together with Mosses, Ferns, and Orchideed, but they are more gene- 
rally terrestrial. M. cordifolia, like Sph^rospermtim Jlaccidum, was found by me in the lower coast region, 
both in Daricn and Choeo. ^Hien growing in soil it is a shrub about 4 feet liigh, when on trees it is 
much smaller. The flowers are scarlet, tipped with white ; the berries are quiuquaugular, while and uweet, 
but slightly astringent. 
ERICACE^. 
621. Clethra quercifoHa, Schlccht. "Wlprs. Rep. vol. ii. p. 726. — C. obovata, Hook, et Arn. 
Bot. Beech, p. 302 (uon Kuiz et Pav.) ! — !Nomen vcniacul. '^ Nansillo." On the slopes of the Vol- 
cano of Chiriquij Vera^as. 
A tree, averaging in height about 35 feet, and ranging geographically from Veraguas, over Central 
America (Barclay), to Mexico. C. obovata of liuiz and Pavou appears to bo a different plant from this; and 
again the diagnosis of C. ohovata in De Candollc's Prodromus (vol. vii. p. 589) differs from the figure pub- 
lished in the * Flora Peruviana' in so far as the lobes of the corolla are fimbriated, and not entire, as stated. 
MYUSINEACE^. 
623. MyrsIjVe myricoides, Schlecht., De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 100. Volcano of Chiriqui, 
Veraguas. . 
623. Ardisia (§ Parathesis) crenulata, Vent, (non Lodd.), De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 129. 
Cape CorienteSj Daricn, and Parcdez Islands, Veraguas. 
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624. Ardisia {§ Micranthera) coriaceUj Swai'tz, De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 122. — Nomeu 
vemacul. " Fruta de pavo." In savanas, and on the outskirts of forest between Pananaa and Cruces. 
The fruit of this shrub or small tree is eaten by the inhabitants ; it is blaek and rather insipid. 
625. Ardisia {§ Euardisia) compressaj Kunth, De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 125. Forests 
about Cruces. 
626. Ardxsia (§ Euardisia) decipiens, De Cand. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 125. In woods near 
Panama. 
" My specimens agree best -nith De Candolle's diagnosis of A. decipiens, but also more or less ^ith that 
of A. Turhacensis, A. Orinocensis, and A. propinqua, ani I almost suspect that too many species have been 
made of one plant. The panicles of my specimens are either lateral or terminal, and in the latter case 
much branched and twice shorter than the leaves. 
THEOPHRASTACEiE. 
627. Clavua sp. On woods near Panama viejo. 
The specimens of this species have unfortimately been lost ; the shrub from which they were gathered 
was, as I learn from my diary, about 12 feet high. 
