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3-5 lines long; the fructiferous panicle, 2 in. long, has a Mh incrassated rachis, the 
branchlets of which have all died away, leaving the alternate bracteoles in their places ; 
the fruit-bearing pedicel is greatly thickened and verruculose, supporting an oval drupe, 
seated on the persistent cylindrical disk crowned by the three stamens, and furnished at its 
base with the five unchanged sepals; the drupe is 7 lines long, 5 lines in diameter, on the 
stipitate disk 13 line long; the filaments of the stamens are slender, longer than the disk, 
the anthers being small, bilobed, without any excurrent connective, as in the two pre- 
ceding species; the seeds are immature and suspended, and in transverse section exhibit 
a thickish testa, in which the distributed white threads of the raphe are visible; the coty- 
ledons are flattened, the face of one looking towards the axis. The sepals, petals, disk, 
and stamens are similar to those of the preceding species; so also is the ovary, which is 
somewhat conical and minutely verruculose, and surmounted by a long subulate style 
verruculate on its three acute angles; there are two collaterally suspended ovules in each 
of its three cells. 
4. THERMOPHILA CORDATA, nob.: foliis magnis, ovato-oblongis, naviculari-plicatis, imo 
rotundatis et cordatis, apice rotundate obtusis, integris, marginibus revolutis, cori- 
aceis, supra pallide viridibus, ad nervos curvatim divergentes subimmersos juxta mar- 
ginem protensos sulcatulis, opacis, scrobiculato-rugulosis, subtus subpallidioribus, 
opacis, valde rugulosis, costa valida nervis carinatis venisque transversis prominen- 
tibus; petiolo canalieulato, ruguloso-corrugato, limbo 14-plo breviore: paniculis 
brevissimis, petiolo 2-3-plo longioribus, alternatim ramosis, ramulis angulosis, sub- 
verruculosis, cinerascentibus. In Peruvia : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. (Pavon, sub nom. 
Salacia accedens del Peru). 
Although no flower remains in the above specimen, there can be little doubt of its 
proximity to T. macrophylla, which it resembles in the large size of its leaves, and its 
peculiar mode of inflorescence; and in consequence I have regarded it as another species 
of the same genus. The specimen is imperfect, having only a single large leaf and a soli- 
tary panicle, both detached. The leaf is 7 in. long (including its basal sinus, 4 lines deep), 
and 4l in. broad, on a petiole 6 lines long: the panicle is 3 in. long, its peduncle being 
6 lines; its primary branches are of the same length, the secondary ones 2 lines long : all 
the flowers have fallen off. 
5. THERMOPHILA EMARGINATA, nob.: Hippocratea emarginata, Rudge, Pl. Guian. p. 11, 
tab. 9; DC. Prodr. i. 568: scandens; ramis oppositis, cinereo-fuscis, axillis remotis 
et dilatatis, ramulisque curvatim patentissimis cinerascentibus, verruculis asperatis : 
foliis ovatis, imo cuneatis, apice rotundatis et profunde emarginatis, margine subre- 
voluto integerrimis, subcoriaceis, glaberrimis, supra subnitidis, nervis divergentibus 
arcuatim nexis, venis transversim reticulatis, subtus rubiginosis, subopacis, nervis 
venisque prominulis, utrinque sub lente minutissime granulosis; petiolo fusco, 
canalieulato, corrugulato, limbo 15-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus, folio multo 
brevioribus, breviter patentim et repetitim dichotome ramosis, peduneulo ramisque 
verruculoso-asperatis et rubello-farinosis ; bracteolis acutis, divergentibus ; floribus 
