372 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEX OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
3-4; stylo brevi; stigmatis lobis 3, acutis, divaricatis. In Nueva Granada: v. s. in 
herb. Hook. prope Bogota, ad Villa Vicencio (Triana, in flore). 
This species differs from the preceding in its much rounder and more coriaceous leaves, 
in its much shorter and stouter panicles in more regular dichotomous ramifications, and 
much smaller flowers. The axils of the branchlets are 13-13 in. apart; the leaves are 
34-47 in. long, 22-31 in. broad, on a petiole 41—5 lines long; the panicles in the ulti- 
mate axils are only $in. long; the peduncle, 1 line, is six times dichotomously branched, 
with two opposite bracteoles at each division; the primary branchlets 1j line long, the 
rest gradually shorter, the last supporting two shortly pedicellated flowers, all in bud, 
and half a line in diameter; they have three, sometimes four stamens. 
3. CUERVEA LATIFOLIA, nob.: Hippoeratea integrifolia, Seem. (non Rich.) in parte, 
Bot. Her. 90: scandens, ramulis teretibus, cortice fusco rimoso mox delapso et tunc 
flavide opacis, pallidis, glabris, ad axillas oppositas remotas compresso-nodosis, sub 
lente obsolete lenticellato-punctulatis: foliis late ovatis, imo rotundatis, sursum gra- 
datim paulo angustioribus, apice in acumen obtusum tumidul iculari-recurvum 
abrupte constrictis, coriaceis, integerrimis, supra pallide viridibus, sublucentibus, 
nervis remotiusculis arcuatim nexis venisque valde reticulatis prominulis, subtus 
concoloribus, nervis prominentibus ; petiolo canaliculato, lævi, flavido, limbo 12-plo 
breviore: capsulis lateo bovatis, aut rotundis, imo longiuscule, cuneatim angustatis, 
medio utrinque valde convexis, versus marginem subcompressis, ecarinatis, nervis 
furcatim radiantibus, striatis, pericarpio subtestaceo, indehiscentibus, 1-locularibus, 
4-spermis ; seminibus ovatis, nuciformibus, stipite alato subcoriaceo brevi suffultis, 
erectis. In America centrali: v. s. in herb. Hook., in ins. Coyba, prov. Veraguas 
proxima, in maritimis (Seemann, 643). 
Dr. Seemann wrongly referred this plant to the Hippocratea integrifolia of Richard, 
confounding it at the same time with four other very different species, as before mentioned 
(p.953). It is described as climbing to a height of 80 feet: the axils of its branchlets are 
3-33 in. apart: the leaves are 5-5} in. long, 21-33 in. broad, on a petiole 44-6 lines 
long: there is only a single capsule, and that is unattached to the specimen; but the 
receptacle shows the cicatrices of three that have fallen off; this capsule is nearly 3 
inches long, including its euneate base, and 21 in. broad : Dr. Seeman states that it con- 
tained four seeds; these seeds are yet immature: the nuciform portion, of a brownish 
radiately nerved surface, is 15 lines long, 9 lines broad, and supported upon a submem- 
branaceous wing 9 lines long, tapering to a narrow basal hilum; the chord of the raphe 
ascends along the dorsal edge of the wings, and is distributed through the nerves of the 
nuciform portion. 
4. CUERVEA MEGACARPA, nob. : scandens, caule robusto; ramulis teretibus, cortice fusco 
mox caduco, tune flavidule opacis: foliis oppositis, oblongis vel lanceolato-oblongis, 
imo subrotundatis, summum versus angustioribus, et in acumen longiusculum sub- 
lineari-obtusum naviculari-recurvum constrictim attenuatis, integerrimis, flaccide 
subeoriaceis, supra lzte viridibus, sublucidis, nervis tenuibus utrinque 7-9 patentim 
