336 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEX OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
preference over that of Lamarck (1794), who unjustifiably suppressed the former, and who 
copied Jacquin's drawing to illustrate his species; and De Candolle afterwards followed 
the example of Lamarck. Dr. Grisebach (/oc. cit.) adopted Jacquin’s specific name, re- 
ferring to Lamarck's as a synonym, absorbing in it Linnzeus’s typical species. I have 
excluded Vahl's H. subcordata, who derived its characters from a very different plant 
collected by Van Rohr, which I have described under the name of H. Vahliana. This 
species differs from the preceding in the size and shape of its leaves, which are obtuse 
not acute) at base, and in its smaller capsules, which are narrower, cuneated at base, 
and obeordately retuse at the apex; its very slender opposite branches spread at a com- 
plete right angle, with internodes 4 to 2 inches long: the leaves are 21-3 in. long, 
14-15 in. broad, on a petiole 21-3 lines long; the axillary panicle is 1$ in. long, in- 
cluding a peduncle of 6 or 8 lines, its primary branches 4 lines long; the rest diminishing 
upwards, with two very short few-flowered branchlets in each dichotomy, the flower 
expanded is 23 lines in diameter. The inflorescence lengthens in fruit ; the three very 
euneated capsules are 14 in. long, 8 lines broad; all the valves fall away, as in the pre- 
ceding species, leaving the persistent seeds dangling downwards from the end of the 
peduncle. | 
3. HIPPOCRATEA PLUMIERI, nob.: Hippocratea (Coa) scandens, Plum. (non Jacq.), Pl. 
Amer. i. 76, tab. 88. fig. A (non B), edit. MS. cum icone pict. ex libr. Com. de 
Bute, vol. iii. tab. 175: scandens, ramulis teretibus, fuscis, corrugato-rugulosis, 
junioribus sub-4-gonis, pruinosis: foliis ellipticis, imo subacutis, aut obtusioribus, 
apice sensim attenuatis, cum acumine obtusulo, grosse serratis, dentibus obtusis 
sepe mucronulatis, supra lete viridibus, nervis tenuibus longe parallelis, paulo 
divergentibus, venisque tenuissimis crebre transversis prominulis, subtus pallidioribus, 
opacis, nervis venisque stramineis prominulis; petiolo subtenui, canaliculato, striolato, 
limbo 9-10-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus et in ramulis alaribus terminalibus, 
folio multo brevioribus, ferrugineo-tomentosis, dichotome ramosis, cum ramulis 2 
brevissimis congestifloris in dichotomiis, floribus breviter pedicellatis: pedicello 
sepalis petalisque extus velutino-tomentosis, his intus subglabris et apice barbatis, 
pilis articulatis : disco alte conico, subpentagono, subglabro, fusce opaco, apice rufo- 
tomentoso: capsulis 3, distinctis, oblongo-ovalibus, imo obtusis, apice rotundatis, 
compressissimis, medio carinatis, leviter nervoso-striatis, seminibus samaroideis, 
locello compresso, oblongo, obliquo, ala crassiuscule membranacea sustento. In 
Antillis: v.s. in herb. Mus. Brit., insula Grenada (Masson). — 
In the size and shape of its leaves, and especially in their peculiar venation, this plant 
quite agrees with Plumier's drawing still preserved in the British Museum, bearing the 
date of about 1700, leaving no doubt of its identity : Burmann's plate is a rough and sorry 
copy of the same. The axils in Masson's plant are 12-2 in. apart: the leaves are 3-4 in. 
long, 13-21 in broad, on a slender petiole 4-5 lines long: the panicles, having a slender 
peduncle, with slight dichotomous branches, are 14-14 in. long: the flowers are small, 
all the parts filled with spiral vessels: the capsules are 19-20 lines long, 12-13 lines 
broad: the position of the seeds is reversed in Burmann's plate. 
