418 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEZ OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
viridibus, subnitentibus, nervis divaricatis arcuatis venisque transversim reticulatis 
subimmersis, subtus multo pallidioribus, glauco-opacis, nervis prominulis, costa 
utrinque prominente; petiolo canaliculato, corrugato, limbo 20-plo breviore: pani- 
culis axillaribus, folio 6-plo brevioribus, pedunculatis, repetitim trichotome divisis, 
ramulis penultimis et ultimis dichotomis, cum flore solitario in dichotomiis et flores 
plures pedicellatos bracteolatos gerentibus, floribus hinc in capitellis laxe subaggre- 
gatis, triste flavidis, rubescentibus ; bracteolis parvis, divaricatis, acutis, denticulatis ; 
sepalis rotundatis, carnosulis, pallidis, subscabridule pilosulis ; petalis duplo longi- 
oribus, ovatis, carnosulis, marginibus paulo erosulis, paululo expansis; staminibus 
3, ovarii longitudine, intra labia disci insertis et suberectis; stigmatibus 3, summo 
ovarii radiatim adnatis, apicibus liberis, obtusis, staminibus superpositis: drupa 
majuscula, globosa, cinereo-glauca, opaca, pericarpio crasse coriaceo, crebre ruguloso- 
punctato; seminibus paucis, ovatis, superpositis, in pulpa submucosa dulci eduli 
nidulantibus. In Brasilia: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. et Hook., prov. Goyaz, inter 
Almas et Natividade (Gardner, 3046, in flore); in herb. Hook., prov. Goyaz, ad 
Santa Rosa (Gardner, 2788, in fructu); prov. Minas Geraes (Claussen, in flore); 
prov. Minas Geraes, inter Retiro et Concéigao (Burchell, 6382, in flore), cirea Re- 
tiro (Burchell, 7410, in fructu). | 
This is a species nearly allied to the preceding by habit and general appearance, but 
well distinguished by the size and shape of the leaves, the inflorescence, and size and 
form of the fruit. Gardner describes it as a small tree or shrub 8-12 feet in height ; 
Burchell as 30 feet high, growing in dense woods, and known by the name of Quina do 
Mato. There is a considerable difference in the size of the leaves in the specimens from 
the several localities, which vary from 31—81 in. in length, and from 11—21 in. in breadth, 
on petioles 2-5 lines long; the axillary panicle is 1} in. long, the peduncle being 9 lines, 
the primary branches 3 lines, the rest gradually diminishing in length upwards ; the petals 
are about 1 line long. The globose fruit is 14 inch in diameter, of a golden colour, 
opaque, greyish when dry, and covered with small depressed, crowded, round pimples; 
` the indehiscent pericarp is 1 line in thickness, and when dry is coriaceous, brittle, and 
granulose in texture, with a rugous endocarpal lining; it is trilocular, with thin, submem- 
branaceous, almost obsolete dissepiments, and contains from four to six oval superposed 
seeds, enveloped in a yellowish mucilaginous pulp, which dries into elongated membrana- 
ceous cells. These seeds are 8 lines long, 5 or six lines in diameter, subangularly ovate, 
somewhat narrower towards the vertical hilum: the testa, as in the preceding species, is 
coriaceous, and, when broken or pulled asunder, draws out a network of lone longitudinal 
white fibres; the exalbuminous embryo has two fleshy cotyledons, which also contain 
many white spiral vessels, though more sparsely distributed; the radicle is minute and 
superior. 
9. KIPPISTIA DIFFUSIFLORA, nob.: robusta, ramosa, ramulis fusco-brunneis, angulato- 
striatis, lenticellis flavidulis verruculosis, ad axillas oppositas dilatatis: foliis ob- 
longis, naviculatim complicatis, imo subobtusis, apice in acumen subbreve angustum 
obtusulum subito attenuatis, marginibus cartilagineis subrevolutis, crenulato-ser- 
