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reticulato-venose : petiole about 6 inches long, 3-quetrous : pe- 

 tiolules very short, incrassated. Panicle axillary, much longer 

 than the leaves ; common peduncle angulose, sulcated, minutely 

 puberulous ; branches angulose. Flowers numerous, small, 

 yellow, shortly pedicelled, arranged in clusters on the short 

 branchlets of the panicle. Bracteas minute. Flowers polyga- 

 mous ; on the same raceme. $ Fl. Calycine sepals 5, ovate, 

 concave, pubescent. Petals 0. Stamens 8, inserted on a green 

 fleshy 8-crenated disk : filaments 3 times the length of the 

 calyx, horizontally spreading, pubescent. Rudiments of the 

 ovary sub-rotund, villous. ^ FL Calyx as in the barren flower. 

 Petals 0. Stamens half the length of those of the barren 

 flower, and with the anthers apparently imperfect, deciduous. 

 Ovary on a short thick stipe, 3-gonal, villous : style length 

 of the stamens, subulate, pubescent : stigmata 3, spreading. 

 Capsule shortly stipitate, (stipe 2 lines in length), 3-gonal, 

 3-lobed, 3-celled, (1 or 2 of the cells not unfrequently imper- 

 fectly developed), of a red colour, bearing the persistent style : 

 valves 3, coriaceous, septiferous down the middle, dehiscent : 

 seeds solitary, oblong, black ; arillus light orange-coloured ; 

 cotyledons slightly curved. 



VIII. Hypelate. 



Flowers by abortion polygamous. Calycine sepals 

 5. Petals 5, plane, glabrous internally. Stamens 8, 

 free. Style 1, undivided: stigma trigonal, deflected. 

 Drupe 1 -celled, 1 -seeded De Cand. 



The Name, was employed by Pliny to designate a species of 

 Laurel. It is derived from v--y}Xaro; purgative. It was given 

 by Browne to the following species, I presume, from the leaves 

 resembling those of the Laurel. 



1 . * Hypelate trifoliata. Tlvree-leaved Hypelate. 



Browne, 208. — Swartz, Fl. hid. Occ. 653. t. 14. 



HAB. Lower hills, of the limestone formation. 



FL. August. 



A shrubby tree : branches loose, fragile, ash-coloured. 

 Leaves ternate ; leaflets obovate, coriaceous, shining, very 

 glabrous, impunctate ; petioles slightly margined. Panicles 

 axillary, erect, longer than the leaf, subcorymbose. Flowers 

 small, white, polygamous, with those which are male, and those 

 which are hermaphrodite on diff'erent racemes. Sepals ovate, 

 concave, coloured. Petals rather smaller than the sepals, 

 ciliated, deciduous. Disk fleshy, yellow. Filaments in the male 

 flowers longer than the sepals. Pistil obscure in the male : in 

 the hermaphrodite subrotund, globose. Drupe size of a pea, 

 ^yhen ripe black, pulpy : nut oval, 1-seeded. — Swartz. 



