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reticulato-venose : petiole about 6 inches long, 3-quetrous : pe- 
tiolules very short, incrassated. Panicle axillary, much longer 
than the leaves ; common peduncle angulose, sulcated, minutely 
puberulous ; branches angulose. Flowers numerous, small, 
yellow, shortly pedicelled, arranged in clusters on the short 
branchlets of the panicle. Bracteas minute. Flowers polyga- 
mous ; on the same raceme. $ FI. Calycine sepals 5, ovate, 
concave, pubescent. Petals 0. Stamens 8, inserted on a green 
fleshy 8-crenated disk : filaments 3 times the length of the 
calyx, horizontally spreading, pubescent. Rudiments of the 
ovary sub-rotund, villous. FI. Calyx as in the barren flower. 
Petals 0. Stamens half the length of those of the barren 
flower, and with the anthers apparently imperfect, deciduous. 
Ovary on a short thick stipe, 3-gonal, villous : style length 
of the stamens, subulate, pubescent : stigmata 3, spreading. 
Capsule shortly stipitate, (stipe 2 lines in length), 3-gonal, 
3-lobed, 3-celled, (1 or 2 of the cells not unfrequently imper- 
fectly developed), of a red colour, bearing the persistent style : 
valves 3, coriaceous, septiferous down the middle, dehiscent : 
seeds solitary, oblong, black ; arillus light orange-coloured ; 
cotyledons slightly curved. 
VIII. HypelAte. 
Flowers by abortion polygamous. Calycine sepals 
5 . Petals .5, plane, glabrous internally. Stamens 8, 
free. Style 1, undivided: stigma trigonal, deflected. 
Drupe 1 -celled, 1 -seeded De Cand. 
The Name, was employed by Pliny to designate a species of 
Laurel. It is dex'ived from b-rjXaro; purgative. It was given 
by Browne to the following species, I presume, from the leaves 
resembling those of the Laurel. 
1. * Hypelate trifoliata. Three-leaved Hypelate. 
Browne, 208. — Swartz, FI. Bid. Occ. 653. t. 14. 
HAB. Lower hills, of the limestone formation. 
FL. August. 
A shrubby tree : branches loose, fragile, ash-coloured. 
Leaves ternate ; leaflets obovate, coriaceous, shining, very 
glabrous, impunctate ; petioles slightly margined. Panicles 
axillary, erect, longer than the leaf, subcorymbose. Flowers 
small, white, polygamous, with those which are male, and those 
which are hermaphrodite on different racemes. Sepals ovate, 
concave, coloured. Petals rather smaller than the sepals, 
ciliated, deciduous. Disk fleshy, yellow. Filaments in the male 
flowers longer than the sepals. Pistil obscure in the male : in 
the hermaphrodite subrotund, globose. Drupe size of a pea, 
when ripe black, pulpy : nut oval, 1-seeded. — Sivartz. 
