110 ■ HYPERICINEJ!. 



mucronate at the top, articulated with the filament. Ovary incompletely 3-5 -locnlar. — Trees or 

 shruhby climoers ; racemes spidform, long : bracts cucullate and ascidiate, with the aper- 

 ture inferior, simple, inserted into the top of the pedicel, and exceeding the flower, 



1. W. gnianensis, Auhl. Leaves obovate ; ascidiate bracts scarlet, stipitate : the cla- 

 vatehody as long or twice as long as its' petiole ; flowers violet; shortly pedieelled. — Autl. 

 t. 220 J Mart. N. Oen. t. 296.— 'N. paraensis, Mt. — A shrubby climber {Fd^) or a high' 

 tree ( «*/.); leaves 6"'-5" long, petioled, quite entire; flowers 2"'-3"', ascidia 12"'-8"' 

 bng.^HAB. Trinidad I, Fd., in the mountains of S. Anns ; [Guiana 1, equatorial Brazil I]. 



2. KUYSCHIA, Jaflj. 



CJharacter of Norantea, but flowers pentandrous, and anthers oblong or oval, devoid of a 

 mucro. 



2. B. Souroubea, W. leaves obovate-oblong, bluntish, shortly petioled ; flowers race- 

 mose : pedicels elongated; ascidiate bracts close to the calyx, divided to the base into three 

 clavate segments, the middle of which is ascending, the lateral ones (or spurs) reflexed, 

 shorter than the pedicel. — Aubl. t. 97. — Surubea Aubletii, Mey. I — A shrub ; spurs nearly- 

 as long as the middle segment of the bract ; petals " orange-coloured." — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 dr., at Guanapo, rare; [Guiana!]. 



3. MAKCGRAAVIA, L. 



Sepals 6, two exterior smaller. Corolla calyptriform, circumscissile. Stamens oo -12: 

 anthers linear, articulated with the filament a Uttle above the base, not mucronate. Osarg 

 incompletely 12-4-locular, striated longitudinally: stigmas decurrent from its pointed, 

 bluntish top. — Climbing shrubs; leaves quite entire, shortly petioled ; flowers long -stalked, 

 in terminal umbels or eorymhiform racemes; bracts inserted or adnate above tlte base of 



3. M[. spicifiora, Mch. leaves obovate ; flowers numerous, in a corymbiform raceme ; 

 bracts small, spathukte, convex above, concave below, inserted somewhat below the middle 

 of the pedicel : sterile none; corolla circumscissile near the middle; stamens 18-12 ; pla- 

 centas 4. — Ann. Mus. 14. t. 25. — A tortuous shrub, 6'-2' high ; leaves usually 4" long, ZJ" 

 broad; raceme 4" long; pedicels approximate, spreading, l-J" long, clavate at the top; 

 flower-buds 4'" long before the rupture of the enroll, ovoid. — Hab. Dominica !, Imr.; [Gua- 

 deloupe, among Sphagnum in the mountains]. , 



4. M. umbellata, L. Leaves ovate-oblong or oblong-linear (those of the rooting shoots 

 distichous, cordate, emarginate, subsessile, fern-Mke) ; flowers umbellate : exterior pedicels 

 ebracteate, interior abortive, the latter with an adnate, ascidiate, claviform bract ; corolla cir- 

 cumscissile from the base ; stamens numerous, long-exserted from the calyx : anthers recurved ; 

 placentas 12-6. — Br. Jam. t. 26 : the broad-leaved form; Jacq. Amer. Piot. 1. 143 : thfi 

 narrow-leaved form ; I^ss. Fl. 4. t. 13 ; Pesc. Fl. 4. t. 239 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 160.— M. 

 coriacea, V.: a veinless, broad-leaved form. M. trinitatis, Prl. The sterile, rooting shoots 

 are described as M. picta, W., M. dubia, Kth., and TJrostigma infestujn, Miq. ! : they are 

 figured as Ferns by Sloane. — A trailing shrub : the branches partly rooting, partly nodding ; 

 leaves 5"-3" long, 2"-8"' broad ; pedicels I'-IJ" long ; flowers greenish ; interior sepals 

 roundish, 2'" diam. ; stamens yellow, 6"'-8"' long ; pericarp with a red pulp. The varia- 

 bility is considerable : the leaves ovate-oblong, eUiptical-lanoeolate or oblong-linear, acumi- 

 nate, pointleted or bluntish, veinless or with prominent, anastomosing veins ; the pedicels 

 tubercled or smooth ; the pericarp globose or ovate. — Hab. Jamaica I, WNb., Al., on trees 

 and rocks; Dominical, Imr.; S. Lucia I, S. Vincent!, Guild.; Trinidad; [Cuba!, Vene- 

 zuela!, southern New Granada!]. 



XXXVII. HYPEEICINEiE. 



Sepals imbricative, 4-5 : two exterior. Stamens mostly indefinite : anthers erect or in- 

 cumbent. PisfoV paracarpous, or at-length syncarpous: styles usually distinct. Embryo 

 exalbnminous, cylindrical : radicle usually exceeding in length the short cotyledons. — Leaves 

 mostly opposite, quite entire, exstipulate, usually punctate with pellucid dots. 



