"416 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEA OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
It affords me a great satisfaction to have the opportunity of naming this very curious 
genus in commemoration of Mr. Richard Kippist*, who, by his services as Curator and 
Librarian during many years of arduous application, has contributed greatly to the 
advancement and to the present state of prosperity of the Linnean Society. 
» 
KIPPISTIA, nob. 
Sepala 5, parva, semiorbicularia, glabra, carnosula, margine tenui ciliata, persistentia, æstivatione sub- 
imbricata. Petala 5, alterna, sepalis triplo longiora, ovata, integra vel suberoso-ciliata, subcarno- 
sula, persistentia, æstivatione quincuncialiter imbricata. Discus carnosus, brevissime cylindricus, 
cum basi ovarii superpositi confluens, et hinc in labia 3 sacciformia staminigera interruptim 
laxatus. Stamina 3, intra labia disci inserta, adscendentia, ovario fere «equilonga: filamenta sub- 
tenuia, paulo compressa, basi vix latiora: anthere parve, subcuneatim ovate, apice reniformi-trun- 
cate, subdeflexim apicifixe, rima verticali transversa bivalvatim paulo hiantes. Ovarium super 
discum zequilatum positum, et cum eo continuum, trigone columnari, angulis rotundatis, in lateribus 
3 versus labia disci profunde cavatum, apice plano-depressum et subumbilicatum, in angulis trilo- 
culare; ovula 2 in quoque loculo ad axem paulo sub apicem suspensa. Stylus nullus. Stigmata 3, 
lineari-lanceolata, plana, subrugulosa, summo ovarii horizontaliter adnata, apicibus obtusulis excur- 
rentibus breviter liberis, staminibus opposita et cum loculis alterna. Drupa mole mediocri, obovata 
vel globosa, apice breviter 3-sulcata, indehiscens, pericarpio crasse coriaceo, aurantiaco, nitido vel 
opaco, subtriloculari, dissepimentis membranaceis, fere evanidis. Semina 2 ad 6, in pulpa mucila- 
ginosa ALES QUADRA: testa crassa, coriacea, intus mollior et fibrillas spirales albas innu- 
merosas long tens : infegumentum internum tenue, ad testam adnatum. Embryo exal- 
'buminosus, cotyledonibus 2, crassis, carnosis, succum viscosum emittentibus, et vasis innumerosis 
spiralibus donatis, radicula brevissima iis occulta, hilo proxima, supera, plumula minuta, obtusa. 
Suffrutices vel arbusculæ Brasiliane, erecta, glabre, ramose ; folia opposita, elliptica vel oblonga, subser- 
rata, breviter petiolata ; paniculæ axillares, corymbose, folio breviores, repetitim dichotome ramose, 
ramis opposite bracteolatis ; flores numerosi, subparvi, subsessiles, subaggregati. 
1. KIPPISTIA ORGANENSIS, nob. : arbuscula, ramulis subteretibus, rugoso-striatis, obsolete 
lentieellatis: foliis oppositis, elliptico-oblongis, imo subcuneatim obtusis, apice in 
acumen longiusculum sublineare obtusulum abrupte attenuatis, margine cartilagineo 
subrevoluto erenulato-serratis, supra late aut pallide viridibus, subnitidis, nervis 
tenuissimis immersis, eveniis, costa prominula, sub lente favoso-reticulatis, subtus 
pallidioribus, opacis, fere enerviis, costa prominente, sub lente minutissime granulosis; 
petiolo subtenui, eanaliculato, transversim corrugulato, limbo 12-plo breviore: pani- 
eulis axillaribus, breviter pedunculatis, repetitim dichotome ramosis, ramis ramu- 
lisque longiusculis, paulo divaricatis, compressis, glabris, opposite bracteolatis, ramulis 
ultimis brevissimis, flores 4 capitatim congestos gerentibus, quorum 2 expansis, 2 in 
alabastro decussatim oppositis, singulis intra braeteolas 3 more involucri suboc- 
cultis; bracteolis ovatis, acutis, margine membranaceis, fimbriato-denticulatis ; 
floribus parvis, fuscis, breviter pedicellatis; sepalis rotundatis, toro convexo 
ruguloso adnatis, margine membranaceo subintegris; petalis triplo longioribus, 
* A prior attempt to do honour to Mr. Kippist's name has been unsuccessful: the Kippistia suædifolia, F. Muell., 
Rep. Pl. Bab. Exped. p. 13, and Pl. Coll. Vict. vol. ii. pl. 35, has been absorbed into the genus Minura by Mr. Ben- 
tham, in Fl. Austr. iii. 499. 
