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lente granulis minutis crystallinis opace pruinosis, nervis tenuibus immersis, subtus 
pallidioribus, aut luride brunnescentibus, creberrime reticulatis; petiolo tenui, 
canaliculato, limbo 10-12-plo breviore; stipulis parvis, ovatis, concavis, acute apicu- 
latis, deciduis: paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, dichotome divisis, cum ramulis 
2 brevissimis in dichotomiis, flavide et scabridule tomentosis ; petalis oblongo-ovatis, 
cinereo-pruinosis, margine ciliato-puberulis, intus barbatis; disco alte conico, 
cinereo-papilloso, summo tomentoso; pilis articulatis. In Antillis: v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit., Hispaniola (St. Domingo), (Swartz) ; in herb. Hook. S* Lucia (Anderson). 
This species, very different from H. volubilis, Linn., to which Swartz referred it, is 
readily distinguished by the peculiar surface of its leaves: Anderson’s plant from St. 
Lucia is very distinct from another collected in the same island, which I have considered 
to be identical with Linnæus’s type; the former quite coincides with Swartz's original 
specimen. Its leaves are 22—4 in. long, 14-13 in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long: the 
panicle is 1 in. long, the peduncle being 6 lines; its primary branches 5 lines long, the 
rest quickly diminishing upwards; the pedicel is 1 line long, rigidly tomentous; the 
flower expanded is 2} lines in diameter; the sepals:are roundish and tomentous; the 
petals three times as long. 
8. HIPPOCRATEA ACAPULCENSIS, H., B., K. (non Hook.), v. 137 ; DC. Prodr. i. 568 : ramis 
verrucosis, cinerascentibus; ramulis tenuibus, subangulatis, corrugato-striatis, viri- 
dibus, glabris, in axillis dilatatis: foliis ellipticis, vel obovato-oblongis, imo sub- 
cuneato-acutis, apice acutiusculis, aut in acumen obtusulum mucronulatum subito 
attenuatis, obsolete crenato-serrulatis, marginibus cartilagineis subrevolutis, sub- 
coriaceis, sub lente utrinque granuloso-rugulosis, supra leete aut pallide viridibus, 
opacis, nervis tenuibus remotis subimmersis, subtus concoloribus, costa nervis venis- 
que reticulatis prominulis; petiolo canaliculato, corrugulato, limbo 8-plo breviore; 
stipulis parvis, acute ovatis, concavis, caducissimis: paniculis axillaribus et termi- 
nalibus, folio brevioribus, divaricatim dichotome ramosis, cum ramulis 2 brevis- 
simis 2-3-floris in dichotomiis, ramis angulato-sulcatis, compressis, flavide tomen- 
tellis, bracteolis parvis, ovatis, acutis, oppositis, extus puberulis, ciliatis; petalis 
oblongis, acutis, utrinque rubidule tomentellis, intus barbatis, pilis articulatis; disco 
alte conico, tomentello; filamentis latis, glabriusculis, subreflexis ; ovario fere abs- 
condito: capsulis 3, (sec. cl. Kunth) imo connatis, obovato-rotundis, compresso- 
planis, horizontaliter patulis, seminibus in loculis 4, imo affixis, geminatim colla- 
teralibus, basi membranaceo-alatis, quorum 3 sæpe abortivis. In Mexico ad Aca- 
pulco: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit., Mexico (Pavon), in flore. 
Pavon's plant agrees well with Kunth's description in the size and shape of its leaves 
and in its general characters: Kunth describes it as a twining plant, thickly branched. 
Its branchlets are slender, with axils 3-1 in. apart: the leaves are 233 in. long, 11-11 in. 
broad, on a petiole 4 lines long: the peduncle is 1 in. long, its primary branches 3 in. 
long, the rest gradually shorter, the accessory peduncles in each dichotomy are 1 line 
long, and bear two or three sessile flowers. The Hippocratea acapulcensis, Hook., in 
