390 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEJE OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
i. 570: Anthodon undulatum, Mart. in Schult. Mant. i. 252; DC. l. c. i. 569: Ton- 
sella undulata, Spr. Syst. i. 177: Salacia undulata, Camb. Fl. Bras. Mer. ii. 107: 
Clercia ovata, Vell. Fl. Flum. 30, Icon. i. t. 73: trunco erecto, ramoso, ramis sub- 
scandentibus, nodosis, teretibus, flexuosis, corrugato-striatis, ramulis strictioribus, 
ad axillas oppositas dilatato-compressis, lenticellis albidis verruculosis, glaberrimis : 
foliis latius aut angustius ellipticis, utrinque acutis, in acumen breve obtusulum navi- 
culari-recurvum apice constrictis, grosse et obtuse serratis, dentibus mucronatis, supra 
viridibus aut pallide viridibus, subglauco-opacis, nervis tenuibus subimmersis, subtus 
pallide opacioribus, costa nervis areuatim nexis venisque transversis reticulatis pro- 
minulis; petiolo tenui, fusco, canaliculato, subtus corrugulato, limbo 12-plo bre- 
viore: panieulis axillaribus, solitariis, brevissimis, pedunculo petiolo paulo breviore, 
apice pedicellos 2 vel 3 dimidio. breviores unifloros gerente; bracteolis submembra- 
naceis, acutis; sepalis rotundatis, pectinato-denticulatis, extus rugulosis, patentibus ; 
petalis triplo longioribus, obovatis, imo sensim angustioribus, expansis, viridi-luteis, 
medio crassiusculis, glauco-pruinosis, margine late membranaceis, pectinatim denti- 
culatis; disco carnoso, medio crasso et annulatim pulvinato, margine latiusculo, 
expanso, glabro ; filamentis complanatis, sublinearibus ; antheris subparvulis ; ovario 
subconice trigono, discum æquante, loculis 6-ovulatis; stylo subulatim triangulari, 
dentibus 3 stigmatosis terminato: fructu majusculo, ovato, lutescente, malum simu- 
lante; pericarpio crassissimo, submolliter coriaceo ; seminibus 10-12, ovatis, vagis, 
in pulpa parea nidulantibus. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro: v.v. ad Jurujúba, 
in flore: v. s. in herb. plurimis, Jurujuba (Gardner, 745, 5390, in flore); in herb. 
Mus. Brit., ad Itagoahy (Bowie ev Cunningham, in flore et fructu) ; prov. S. Paolo 
(Cunningham, in flore). 
This is a small tree with scandent branches, which I found in Jurujuba Bay, on the 
eastern side of the Bay of Rio de Janeiro, in 1837. Gardner met with it shortly after- 
wards in fruit, which he did not preserve; but he describes it as of the “ size of a large 
apple;" and Cunningham says it has “a large yellow fruit containing many seeds in 
pulp." The dilated axils of its branches are 1-13 in. apart; the leaves are 3-42 in. long, 
13-23 in. broad, on a petiole 3—4 lines long; the peduncle is solitary in each axil, 3 lines long, 
and surmounted by two pedicels 2 lines long, each bearing a single flower; or sometimes 
the peduncle has two short branches 3 lines long, each bearing two pedicellated flowers, 
as in the specimen from St. Paul's, which has somewhat smaller and more flaccid leaves ; 
the pedicels are 4 line long, bracteolated at base; the flower expanded is 6 lines in dia- 
meter; the petals are 24 lines long, 2 lines broad, greenish in the middle, with broad 
yellowish membranaceous margins, and marked inside with numerous white very close 
interrupted raised lines, and outside are cinereously pruinose. The fruit is of an oval 
shape, when dried 22 in. long, 2 in. in diameter—or, in a fresh state, as in Velloz’s draw- 
ing, 33 in. long, 2} in. in diameter; the pericarp is externally smooth, verruculated with 
numerous raised, shining, yellow, small tubercles, is 3 lines thick, at first softish, be- 
coming more brittle and granular when dry: the seeds are 7 lines long, 5 lines in 
diameter; the outer coating is subcoriaceous, consisting of two semiadherent laminæ, the 
