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many-flowered: common peduncle 3-gonal, minutely puberu- 

 lous : branchlets an inch or more in length, with a small lanceo- 

 late bractea at the insertion of each, beaiing about 10 pedicelled 

 white flowers : pedicels short, puberulous, furnished at the in- 

 sertion with a minute ovate acute bractea. Flowers polyga- 

 mous. Calycine sepals 5 ; the 2 outer small, roundish ; the 3 

 inner three times larger than the outer, obovato-subrotund, 

 with 2 of them cohering. Petals 4, of nearly the same size as 

 the larger sepals, appendiculated on the inner surface ; appen- 

 dices petaloid, l the length of the petals, hooded from the 

 margin being inflected, tipt with yellow, and glandulose at the 

 apex, villoso-ciliated. Hypogynous glandules 4, minute, green. 

 Stamens 8, inserted on the disk supporting the pistil ; filaments 

 subulate, unequal in length, pubescent: anthers small, oblong, 

 yellow. Pistil, in the barren flowers, scarcely perceptible ; in 

 the fertile, ovary 3-gonal : style 3-fid, persistent. Carpels 

 united to form a 3-winged capsule, cordate at the base, eraargi- 

 nate at the apex : wings thin, membranaceous, veined, to tlie 

 glass puberulous : cell situated at the apex of the samai'a, in- 

 ternally villous. Seed oval, compressed. 



2. Seijania divaricata. Spreading Supple-jack. 



Leaves biternate, leaflets ovate acuminate retuse 

 blunt slightly attenuated at the base subentire shining 

 and glabrous above, pubescent and minutely punctu- 

 lated beneath, panicles axillary, wings of the carpels 

 dilatato-rounded. 



Paullinia divaricata, Swartz, Fl. Lid. Occ. 696. — S. divari- 

 cata, De Cand. Prod. I. 603. 



HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. February. 



Stem -woody, climbing to a great height: bi-anches angulose 

 and sulcated, and towards their extremities pubescent. Leaflets 

 4-5 inches long and about 2i broad, ovate, acuminate with the 

 apex retuse and blunt, slightly attenuated and the middle leaf- 

 let somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, entire with the excep- 

 tion of a few distant blunt teeth, shining and glabrous above, 

 pubescent and punctulated with minute brown dots beneath, 

 nervose, reticulato-venose, stiffish : petioles compressed, angu- 

 loso-sulcated : the central partial petiole elongated, subalate. 

 Tendrils axillary, solitary, longer than the leaf, angulated, bifid. 

 Panicle axillary, on a long foot stalk ; divisions racemose, alter- 

 nate, divaricating: common peduncle anguloso-sulcated, pubes- 

 cent ; its branches short, with a small lanceolate bractea at the 

 insertion, bearing several pedicelled flowers ; pedicels short 

 with a minute bractea at the insertion. Calycine sepals and 

 petals as in S. equestris. Filaments 8, subulate. Ovary 3-go- 



