364 MR. J. MIERS ON THE HIPPOCRATEACEX OF SOUTH AMERICA. 
branaceis, minutissime denticulatis, pallide luteis, subconvexis, margine eroso- 
denticulatis; disco brevissimo, submembranaceo, crenulato, imo angustissime 
dilatato; stigmate preecedentis. In Antillis : v. s. à» herb. Hook. et Mus. Brit., 
Cuba (Wright, 2219). 
This is one of the several plants erroneously referred by Dr. Grisebach to the Hippo- 
cratea malpighiefolia of Rudge. It is apparently scandent, with opposite axils 14-15 in. 
apart ; its leaves are 3 in. long, 14 in broad, on a petiole 3 lines long : the axillary panicle is 
3] in. long, the peduncle being 6 lines long, with 3 subalternate branchlets of the same 
length, each with 2 opposite branchlets, and another intermediate one abortive; the 
pedicels are the length of these branchlets, 1 line long; the flowers are very pale, and 
31 lines across when expanded, the sepals being 3 line long, the petals 1; line long. In 
the above specimen we find a compound panicle, shorter than the leaf: it is shown to be 
compounded of other truly axillary panicles by the presence of a small leaf near its apex, 
the others having fallen away. 
6. P A VERRUCOSA, nob.: Hippocratea verrucosa, H., B., K. v. 188; DC. Prodr. 
i. 568: scandens, ramis teretibus, cinerascentibus, glabris, verrucosis, patentissimis, 
suboppositis: foliis elliptico-oblongis, utrinque acutiusculis, obsolete et remote 
serrulatis, reticulato-venosis, coriaceis, subtus concoloribus, costa prominula; petiolo 
teretiusculo, subcanaliculato, glabro, limbo 11-plo breviore: paniculis axillaribus et 
terminalibus, folium æquantibus, dichotome ramosissimis, ramulis filiformibus, gla- 
bris, divaricatis; bracteolis parvis, acute ovatis, glabris; floribus parvis, pedicellatis ; 
sepalis subrotundo-ovatis, acutis, ciliato-fimbriatis; petalis ovatis, obtusis, glabris, 
patentibus, flavo-viridibus; filamentis membranaceis ; stylo brevi ; stigmate obtuso : 
capsulis 3, obovatis, compresso-planis, medio carinatis, striolatis, coriaceis, singulis 
6-spermis. In Nueva Granada ad Cartagena (non vidi). 
This plant seems to approach most ofthe preceding species: the leaves are 33-34 lines 
long, 15-16 lines broad, on a petiole 3 lines long: the corymbiform inflorescence would 
appear, from the description, to be compounded of the terminal panicles, as in the pre- 
ceding species. 
7. PRISTIMERA ANDINA, nob.: scandens, ramulis tenuissimis, fuscis, striolatis, junioribus 
flavidioribus : foliis ellipticis, utrinque acutis, crenato-serratis, subcoriaceis, supra 
pallide viridibus, opacis, nervis fere immersis, sub lente crystallino-granulatis, 
subtus vix pallidioribus, opacis, nervis venisque reticulatis vix prominulis, costa 
straminea prominula; petiolo tenui, canaliculato, pallido, limbo 5-7-plo breviore: 
paniculis axillaribus, folio dimidio brevioribus, trichotome divisis, ramulis primariis 
- dichotome ramulosis, cum floribus paucis pedicellatis in dichotomiis ; floribus parvis, 
pallidissimis, glabris; sepalis rotundatis, pectinato-ciliatis ; petalis 2-plo longi- 
oribus, obovatis, pallide membranaceis, pectinato-denticulatis; disco brevi, subtu- 
bulari, albidulo. In Peruvia: v. s. in herb. Hook., San Luiz, in silvis, altit. 7000 
ped. (Pearce). 
