350 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACE/E OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
subcuneated at base, sharply cleft at the summit to the depth of 4 or 5 lines into two 
narrowish obtuse segments ; and they split down the middle by a carinated ridge into two 
valves, each valve containing four parallel erect seeds. "The seed is 17 lines long, 8 lines 
broad; the apical nuclear portion is darkly coriaceous, flattened, obliquely ovoid, 6 lines 
long, 4 lines broad, obtusely pointed inwardly at the apex ; the supporting wing is thinly 
membranaceous, of a gibbously oval form, the more external margin being thickened, 
eoriaceous, and raphigerous: the cotyledons, sometimes 3, are parallelly adpressed, thin 
and foliaceous, filling the cavity of the nucleus, and united at their base by a very 
short terete radicle, pointing obliquely downwards. 
26. HIPPOCRATEA VERSICOLOR, nob.: Hippocratea discolor, Seem. (non Mey.). Voy. Her. 
p. 90: ramulis patentibus, teretibus, opacis, minute granulatis, ruguloso-striatis, 
rubescentibus : foliis valde deciduis, oblongo-ellipticis, imo subacutis vel rotundi- 
usculis, apice gradatim acuminatis, acumine obtusulo, superioribus ad axillas flori- 
feras brevioribus et ovatis, utrinque rotundiusculis, omnibus obsolete crenato-serru- 
latis, dentibus sæpe aciculari-mucronulatis, subflaccidis, supra pallidis vel fulvide 
opacis, epidermide quasi encausta, sub lente utrinque minute granulato-punctulatis, 
nervis tenuibus arcuatis immersis, subtus rubidule brunneis, costa nervisque strami- 
neis paulo prominulis; petiolo tenui, canaliculato, pallido, limbo 14-plo breviore: 
panieulis axillaribus, pedunculatis, late expansis, dichotome ramosis, cum ramulis 2 
brevibus in dichotomiis, fulvide tomentellis, vel in ramis novellis, e foliorum delapsu, 
in eorymbum terminalem latum laxe divaricato-ramosum expansis, ramulis com- 
pressis, subangulatis; bracteolis parvis, acutis; petalis oblongis, extus pilis brevis- 
simis articulatis rufo-tomentellis, intus barbatis; disco alte conico, subsulcato, 
fusco-tomentello; antheris minoribus. In isthmo Panama: v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Ardita Bay (Seemann, 1102). 
A species certainly very different from .H. discolor. The axils of its branches are 
2-33 in. apart; the leaves are 3j in. long, 13 in. broad, on a petiole 3 lines long; the 
upper leaves are 13-2 in. long, 11—1$ in. broad, on a petiole 2 lines long; the peduncle 
is 10 lines long, the primary branches 5-6 lines, the secondary 4 lines, the rest rapidly 
shorter; the flower expanded is only 2 lines in diameter, on a very short pedicel. The 
branches of the inflorescence, sepals, and petals are filled with numerous white spiral 
threads. 
27. HIPPOCRATEA VIRIDIS, R. & P. Fl. Per. i. 44, tab. 74. fig. a; DC. Prodr. i. 568: 
volubilis, ramulis teretibus, striatis, lenticellis pallidis inconspicuis signatis, divari- 
catis: foliis patentibus, late ovatis, imo rotundatis, apice suborbiculatis, leviter 
emarginatis yel in acumen brevissimum obtusulum subito constrictis, coriaceis, mar- 
ginibus cartilagineis vix revolutis, obsolete crenato-serrulatis, supra pallide viridibus, 
nervis tenuibus valde divaricatis arcuatim nexis subimmersis, venis transversis 
parallelis, reticulatis, subopacis, sub lente granulis minutis subcrystallinis rugulosis, 
tactu subasperulis, subtus pallide brunneis, opacis, minute granulosis; petiolo cana- 
lieulato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 8-10-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus et termi- 
