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distinct species should have been confounded with the preceding 
one by the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica.’ The leaves are 
1^ inch long, 10-11 lines broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines long; 
they are of a dark fuscous hue, somewhat coriaceous and shining, 
much broader and more oval in proportion ; their apical attenu- 
ation is very short, abrupt, broad, and very obtuse, with an ob- 
soletely mucronate point ; and the petiole is longer in proportion. 
The raceme is 4-5 lines long ; the flowers have two external 
bracteiform sepals, three intermediate and four inner larger 
membranaceous sepals with ciliated margins, five subequal, sub- 
fleshy, ovate petals, and seven stamens (three of which are more 
exterior and shorter), all fixed on a small eentral androecium. 
The fructiferous raceme is only 2 lines long, bearing (by abor- 
tion) a single subglobular drupe, nearly half an inch in diam. 
The putamen and seed as in the other species. 
3. Hypserpa prtevaricata, noh. ; — ramulis virgatis, glabris, stri- 
atis, junioribus flavido puberulis; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
utrinque sensim attenuatis, mucronatis, glaberrimis, conco- 
loribus aut subtus paulo pallidioribus, marginibus revolutis, 
quintuplinerviis, nervis venisque valde reticulatis, tenuissimis, 
prominulis ; petiolo puberulo, limbo sextuple breviore; race- 
mo axillari, pubescente, e fascicule pilorum supra-axillari 
enato, petiole aequilongo, 3-5-floro ; raceme $ petiole lon- 
giore, 5-6-floro; ovariis geminis; stigmate sessili, reflexo, 
margine 5-dcntato. — In insulis Indiae orientalis : v. s. in herb. 
Mus. Brit. ^ Pulo Penang; in herb. Hook. ? Ins. Philipp. 
(Cuming, 1252). 
This species approaches H. cuspidata, and may be recognized 
by its more lanceolate leaves, acute at both extremities, the two 
principal basal nerves being less pronounced and triplinerved, 
with branching veins which anastomose with two other outer 
parallel nervures, and these, again, anastomosing with the plair 
of nerves always confounded with the margin. In H. cuspidata 
we do not find this intermediate pair of basal nerves. The sur- 
face of the leaves are less polished than in the typical species : 
it is also notable for its very short and few-flowered racemes, 
and the number of its floral parts. 
The leaves are 2^-3|- inches long, inch broad, on a 
petiole 6-9 lines long. The $ raceme is 1 inch long ; its flowers 
have three bracteiform as well as five larger sepals, and five small 
cuneately oblong, fleshy petals, whose margins are scarcely in- 
flected, and nine or ten stamens in the centre. The ? raceme 
is inch long; its flowers have two bracteiform and five 
larger inner sepals, which are rounded, eoncave, submem- 
branaceous, pellucido-punctate, with ciliated margins, four or 
