HIPPOCU A’i'EACE JE. 
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1. Marcgravia umbellata. Umbellated Marcgravia. 
Leaves of the sterile branches sessile oval cordate 
obtuse, of the fertile oblongo-ovate acuminate ob- 
scurely veined, peduncles umbellated, bracteas cucul- 
liform. 
Phyllitidi scandenti affinis major, folio crasso subrotundo, 
Sloane, I. 74. t. 28. f. 1. (mala .) — Marcgravia scandens, Brotvne , 
244. t. 26. — M. umbellata, Jacq. Atner. 156. t. 96. — Sivartz, 
Obs. 205. — Lam. III. t. 447. 
HAB. On rocks in the mountains. 
FL. May — October. 
The early branches rooting; those which are older and fer- 
tile pendulous, simple, subterete, warty, glabrous. Leaves of 
the sterile branches subsessile, oval, cordate, obtuse, with a row 
of glandulose dots along the margin which is entire; leaves 
of the fertile branches alternate, very shortly petiolate, distichal, 
oblong, or ovato-oblong, acuminate, entire, membranaceo-inar- 
gined, with two lines of glandulose dots, one of them indis- 
tinct passing along the margin, the other more distinct, situated 
more interiorly ; coriaceous, obscurely nerved. Umbel termi- 
nal, 20— 30-flowered : common peduncle sulcato-tetragonal : pe- 
dicels an inch and a half in length. Bracteas about 5 in num- 
ber, in the centre of the umbel, shortly pedicelled, club-shaped 
and rounded at the apex, excavated at the base on the side to- 
wards the flowers. Calyx very short, urceolate, 6-partite : 
divisions rounded, imbricated. Corolla coriaceous, oblongo- 
conical, entire, of a greenish colour, calyptriform, imperforate, 
separating at the base, caducous. Stamens 15; filaments di- 
lated at the base : anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary subrotund, 
truncated, terminating in a short subconical stigma with little 
or no style. 
ORDER XXXVII. HIPPOCRATEACE^E 
Calycine sepals 5 (rarely 4-6), minute, united as 
far as the middle, persistent. Petals 5 (rarely 4—6), 
equal, hypogynous (?), subimbricated during estiva- 
tion. Stamens 3, rarely 4—5 ; filaments distinct at 
the apex, united towards the base into tubes and 
forming about the ovary a thick disk-like cup : an- 
