i MR. J. MIERS'ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 340 
brunneo-rubentibus, opacis, costa nervis venisque paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, 
sulcato, marginato, limbo 9-plo breviore: capsulis 3, distinctis, rotato-expansis, 
compressissimis, orbicularibus, imo breviter cuneatim stipitatis, apice paulo emar- 
ginatis, fuscis, crebre radiatim furcato-nervosis; seminibus ala tenuiter membra- 
nacea lata valde gibba margine externo raphigera sustentis. In Brasilia: v. s. in 
herb. Hook., prov. San Paulo, circa Campinas (Burchell, 4965). 
In this decidedly new species the axils are 1-13 in. apart; the leaves are 25-25 in. 
long, 9-11 lines broad, on a petiole 3 lines long. The capsules are 14 lines long, 15-18 
lines broad, unguiculately stipitated at their base; the valves, thin in substance, with 
raised radiating striated nervures, are of a yellowish-brown colour, broadly expanded 
and attenuated on the margin, the cell being little more than half their length, but near 
their breadth; the seeds are 8 lines long, 9 lines broad, including the apical embryo- 
niferous disk, 5 lines long and 3 lines broad, the coriaceous raphigerous margin of the 
wing being only 3 lines long; from this cord the membranaceous wing extends hori- 
zontally on the opposite side for nearly the entire length of the seed, giving it a strangely 
gibbous or unilobed appearance. 
. 95. HIPPOCRATEA BILOBICARPA, nob.: Pereskia paniculata, Vell. Fl. Flum. 34; Icon. i. 
tab. 81: scandens, ramis teretibus, ruguloso-striatis, pallide opacis, glabris: foliis 
oblongis aut sublanceolatis, imo obtusis aut subacutis, subito in petiolo breviter 
decurrentibus, apice sensim acuminatis, margine cartilagineo revoluto fere integris 
aut rarius subcrenulatis, coriaceis, utrinque pallide concoloribus, supra nitidis, nervis 
flexuosis tenuibus immersis, utrinque granulatim rugulosis, subtus subopacis, costa 
vix prominente, nervis venisque paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, profunde canali- 
culato, limbo 9-plo breviore : paniculis in ramulis novellis axillaribus et terminalibus, 
delapsu foliorum corymbum pyramidatum trichotome divisum mentientibus ; fructi- 
feris trichotomis, folio triente brevioribus : capsulis 3, valde compressis, imo connatis, 
et hine campanam irregulariter 6-lobam simulante, demum solubilibus et tunc sin- 
gulis rhombiformibus, apice valde 2-fissis, extus convexis, intus planiusculis, pallide 
opacis, obsolete radiatim furcato-striatis, medio 2-valvatim hiantibus; seminibus in 
singulis capsulis 8, opposite 2-seriatim parallelis, e basi erectis, ala longa lata gibba 
membranacea sustentis, margine exteriore rhaphigera, curvata; cotyledonibus 2, 
seepe 3, parallele complanatis. In Brasilia: v. viv. in fructu ad Pertiningui, prov. 
Rio de Janeiro; const. sicc. in herb. meo. 
This well-marked species, which I collected thirty-five years ago, is tolerably well 
figured in flower by Velloz, who found it in the same province. I met with it only in 
fruit; its axils are about 1 in. apart; the leaves are 33-4 in. long, 15-14 in broad, on a 
petiole 5 lines long. The inflorescence, according to Velloz, is a triehotomous panicle 
11-91 in. long. He erroneously ascribes to it a 5-partite monopetalous corolla. The 
fructiferous panicle is also trichotomous, 13 in. long, the peduncle and branches being 
much increased in thickness. The capsules at first are united at the basal margins for 
nearly a third of their length into a somewhat campanular form, but separating when 
dried; they are then of a broadly compressed rhomboidal shape, 23 in. long, 21 in. broad, 
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