400 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEX OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
venisque paulo reticulatis vix prominulis; petiolo tereti, crasso, fusco, corrugato, 
limbo 15-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, 2-4, e gemma brevi ortis, subfascicu- 
latis, folio 3—4-plo brevioribus, glabris, fuscis; pedunculis validiusculis, compresso- 
subangulatis, ramisque alternis verrucoso-rugulosis, paucifloris; bracteolis ovatis, 
acutis, crassiusculis, rugosis; pedicellis longiusculis, verruculosis, ad medium arti- 
culatim sectilibus; floribus majusculis; sepalis rotundiusculis, crassis, fuscis, rugu- 
losis, margine erosulis; petalis triplo longioribus, oblongis, apice rotundatis, sub- 
carnosulis, flavide virescentibus, opacis, intus multistriatis, utrinque scabridule 
rugulosis, margine membranaceo minutissime denticulatis, rotatis; disco conico, 
carnoso, imo margine crassiusculo late expanso; staminibus longiusculis, subre- 
flexis; ovarii loculis biovulatis; stylo staminibus paulo breviore. In Guiana 
(Cayenne, Richard): v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. et Hook.; Guiana Batava, Karaouary 
(Sagot, '16). 
This species has been confounded with Hippocratea multiflora, Lam., a very different 
plant, referred by me to the genus Hylenea ; the above specimens correspond well with 
Vahl’s description. The opposite axils are 3-1 in. apart; the leaves are 54 in. long, 
3l in. broad, on a petiole 4 lines long; the panicles are 14 in. long, their alternate 
branches 4 lines long; the pedicels are 5 lines long, bracteolated at base, and separating 
spontaneously in the middle by a distinct articulation; the flower expanded is 44 lines 
in diameter. The peduncles, branches, pedicels, sepals, and petals are filled with many 
white spiral threads. 
3. THERMOPHILA RUGULOSA, nob.: scandens, ramosa, ramis ramulisque patentissime op- 
positis, tenuiter teretibus, ad axillas oppositas dilatatis, lenticellis parvis flavidis 
crebre verruculosis: foliis elongato-ellipticis, infra medium sensim cuneato-angus- 
tioribus et basi petiolum versus breviter subito rotundiusculis, apice gradatim in 
acumen recurvum attenuatis, integerrimis, subflaccidis, supra profunde viridibus sub- 
nitidis, ad nervos utrinque circiter 8 arcuatim nexos sulcatulis, reticulatis, subtus 
pallidioribus, ferrugineo-opacis, costa nervis fuscis venisque transversis et reticulatis 
valde prominentibus, costa imo verruculosa ; petiolo tenui, fusco, supra sulcato, ver- 
ruculoso, limbo 12-plo breviore : inflorescentia et florum structura przecedentis ; pani- 
culis fructiferis axillaribus, folio triplo brevioribus, crassis, (principio alternatim 
ramosis, ramis 1-bracteolatis, caducis,) pedicello fructifero unico persistente, valde 
incrassato, verrucoso: drupa subparva, ovali, pustulis pallidis maculata, disco fusco 
granulato persistente staminibusque coronato stipitata; pericarpio crassissimo, lig- 
noso-coriaceo, triloculari, loculis monospermis; seminibus immaturis suspensis. In 
Guiana Batava: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. et Hook., Karaouary (Sagot, 904, sub 
nom. Salacia multiflora, Rich., var. rugulosa, Sag.) ; Maroni (Sagot, sine numero). 
This species is closely allied to the two preceding species; from 7. obovata, to which it 
is referred by Sagot, it differs in its more slender branches, in its much narrower, more 
flaecid leaves (not smooth and coriaceous), with prominent nerves and reticulations, on a 
much thinner petiole. The axils of its branches are ¿ in. apart, having its branchlets 
opposite at right angles; the leaves are 3-5 in. long, 1j-21 in. broad, on a petiole 
