Hyperbcena 



MENISPERMACEiE 



191 



double the size of the outer. Petals 6, shorter than the sepals. 

 Stamens 6, free, in male flowers. Staminodes 6, in female 

 flowers. Carpels 3, with hook-like styles. Fruit a drupe. 

 Endosperm wanting ; cotyledons thick, semi-cylindrical, long ; 

 radicle very short. 



Species 10, natives of W. Indies, Central and S. America. 



Male inflorescence longer than the petiole. 



Lateral cymules 5-10 mm. 1. Drape 1'2 cm. diam. 1. H. domingensis. 



Lateral cymul(3s 2-3 mm. 1. Drupe •? cm. diam. ... 2. H. Prioriana. 

 Inflorescence not longer than the petiole. Drupe 



2-5-3 cm. diam 3. H. laurifolia. 



Fig. 78.—IIyperbtena domingensis Benth. 



A, Portion of stem with flowers and ripe D, Female flower X 10, 



fruit X S. 



B, Male flower with one of the interior 



sepals bent back x 10. 



C, Stamen x 30. 



E, Pistil from female flower X 60. 



F, G, Embryo X | ; c, cotyledons ; r, 

 radicle (A, F, G, after Miers ; B-E, 

 after Eichler.) 



1. H. doraing"ensis Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 2, 

 50 (1861) ; male inflorescence longer than the petiole, lateral 

 cymules 5-10 mm. 1., rhachis glabrescent ; drupe 1—1 '3 cm. in 

 diam. — Miers Contrih. Bot. Hi. 298, t. 131 ; TJrh. Symh. Ant. L 

 306 (excl. H. Prioriana & H. valida) & iv. 238. Bieh in Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich iv. pt. 94, 200. H. reticulata Benth. loc. cit. (in part). 

 Cocculus domingensis DC. Syst. i. 528 (1818); Deless. i. t.9& ; 

 Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 10 (in part). Pachygone domingensis 

 Eiehl. in Fl. Bras. xiii. pt. 1, 197, /. 47, /• II. (1864). (Fig. 78.) 



