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Hab. Brazil ; in the Organ Mountains, and also near Rio Janeiro. 



6. Heteropterys megaptera, A. Juss. I. cj 

 Hab. Brazil ; with the preceding. In flower only. 



8. HIP T AGE, Gcertn. 



1. Hiptage Javanica, Blume? 



Var. crista dorsali fructus in alam alis lateralibus rninorem evoluta. 



Hab. Soinu-somu and Naiau, Feejee Islands. 



The diagnosis of the species of Hiptage is certainly difficult, as M. 

 de Jussieu remarks. The present specimens accord very well with 

 the imperfect character of H. Javanica; having oval-oblong or ovate 

 leaves (some of them moderately acuminate, but others very obtuse), 

 and flowers (apparently whitish) only half as large as those of H. 

 Madahlota; but the fruit, which, according to Jussieu, is nearly desti- 

 tute of a crest in Blume's plant, in ours has the crest extended into a 

 wing fully half as large as the lateral wings, and similar in shape. It 

 exactly resembles that of H. Madahlota, as figured by Cavanilles at 

 fig./ (Cav. Diss. t. 263), the proper wings, too, being narrower than 

 they are represented by Jussieu (Monogr. Malp. 1. 16). Probably the 

 want of a crest or dorsal wing is no more constant in H. Javanica, 

 should the small flowers, &c, prove adequately to distinguish it, 

 than in the original species. The petals are fimbriate, and the tenth 

 stamen much longer and larger than the others, in our specimens ; 

 just as in H. Madahlota. 



2. Hiptage mtrtifolia, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 21.) 



H. foliis lanceolato-ellipticis oblongisve coriaceis nitidis; racemis pauci- 

 floris; petalis roseis; staminihus 5 anticis rnajorihus sub&quilongw 



