344. MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEÆ OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
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intus rufo-barbatis, margine ciliato-pilosis; disco conico, griseo-tomentello, apice 
rufo-tomentoso; filamentis planatis, imo ciliatis; stylo brevi, vix exserto. In 
Peruviæ Andibus: v.s. i» herb. Hook., Cheillo, altit. 3000-4000 ped. (Pearce). 
This is a climbing plant, near the preceding species, differing in its broader, more 
entire, veinless leaves, upon shorter petioles. The branchlets are slender, with axils 
about 1-17 in. apart: the leaves are 43-5} in. long, 1j-2 in. broad, on a petiole 4-44 
lines long: the panicle is 2-23 in. long, the peduncle 10-18 lines, the primary branches 
5-9 lines, the rest gradually shorter: the slender pedicel is 1 line long; the petals 1 line 
long, half a line broad. 
16. HiPPOCRATEA SERRULATA, nob.: scandens, ramulis tenuiter elongatis, virgatim sub- 
teretibus, fusco-rubicundis, lenticellis flavidis sparsim granulosis: foliis ellipticis, 
imo obtusis, aut subacutis, a medio sursum gradatim angustioribus, apice paulo et 
obtusule acuminatis, acumine obtuso et subreflexo, marginibus subrevolutis et 
serrulatis, dentibus obtusis sepe mucronulatis, subcoriaceis, rigide planis, supra 
viridibus, subopacis, sub lente granulis crystallinis minutissine punctato-rugulosis, 
nervis incurvatis arcuatim nexis subimmersis, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, costa 
nervis rubidulis venisque transversis reticulatis prominulis; petiolo tenui, canalicu- 
lato, ruguloso, limbo 12-14-plo breviore; stipulis subulatis, acutissimis, caducis: 
panieulis eorymbosis, axillaribus folio 4-plo brevioribus, flavido-tomentosis, divari- 
catim dichotome ramosis, ramis subcompressis, cum ramulis 2 brevissimis 2-3-floris 
in dichotomiis, bracteolis parvis, acutis, denticulatis; petalis oblongis, acutis, extus 
tomentosis, intus barbatis; disco alte conico, griseo-velutino, apice rufo-tomen- 
toso ; filamentis tomentellis, reflexis. In Brasilia septentrionali et isthm. Panama: 
v. 8. in herb. Hook., Tanaii, Rio Acari, prov. Para (Spruce, 119); Chagres ( Fendler, 53). 
This is a *small tree, with scandent branches and greenish flowers;" it bears no 
relation to H. ovata, to which it was referred, but offers a nearer approach to H. affinis, 
Camb.; its branches are very slender, with axils 13-3 in. apart: its opposite leaves are 
divaricated, 3-5 in. long, 14-2 in. broad, on a petiole 21-3 lines long: the axillary 
panicles are 1} in. long, their peduncle 7-9 lines, the primary branches 5 lines long; the 
flower expanded is 3 lines in diameter, on a pedicel 1 line long. 
17. HIPPOCRATEA AFFINIS, Camb. Fl. Br. Mer. ii. 103: sarmentosa, ramosa, ramis (sec. 
Camb.) cirrhose contortis, internodiis longissimis, verruculis flavidis parvis rugulosis; 
ramulis patentissimis, teretibus, sub-4-gonis, compressis, fusco-rubidulis, lenticellis 
flavis minutis subrugulosis, glabris, striatis, junioribus brevibus, floriferis: foliis 
ellipticis, utrinque obtusatis, imo rotundiusculis, apice in acumen breve obtusulum 
gradatim aut citius attenuatis, crenato-serratis, dentibus rotundatis sæpe mucronu- 
latis, supra profunde viridibus, nervis divarieatis longe intra marginem arcuatim 
nexis et subimmersis, utrinque minutissime granuloso-punctulatis, subtus brunnes- 
centibus, opacis, nervis venisque transverse reticulatis paulo prominentibus; petiolo 
subtenui, canaliculato, limbo 12-14-plo breviore; stipulis parvis, acutis, caducis : 
paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio brevioribus, rubiginoso-tomentosis, dicho- 
