TRELEASE — ILICINE,^ & CEI-ASTRACE^. 357 



petiole, mucronate or acuminate, glabrous; bracts acute; fruit shorter 

 and thicker.— PI. Wright, i. (1S52), 35; Walson, 162, 460; Proc. Amer. 

 Acad. xvii. 336. — A Mexican species, extending into Texas. 



HIPPOCRATEA, L. — Climbing shrub with prehensile twigs, ample 

 creiiate leaves, and rather small flowers in loose dichotomous axillary 

 cymes. — Gen. 363; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 369; Pejritsch, in Fl Brasil. 

 Fasc. 75. 



I. II. ovATA, Lam. — Leaves thin, elliptical-ovate, obtuse or blunt- 

 pointed, low-crenate with a slender appressed deciduous denticle at each 

 sinus, short-petioled, glabrous; inflorescence somewhat rustj'-pubescent ; 

 flowers almost sessile; petals rather hairy; valves of capsule'an inch and 

 a half long, elliptical, obtuse, closely parallel-veined. — lUust. i. (1791), 

 100, pi. 28. — Everglades of Florida, climbing over mangroves {Cur^iss, 

 ^"0.474*). 



