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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
binis vel solit.ariis, petiolo sequilongis, 3-4-floris,- floribus 
pedicellatis ; sepalis 8-9, quorum 5 exterioribus multo mi- 
noribus, margine ciliatis, bracteiformibus, 3-4 majoribus, in- 
terioribus, ovatis, glabris ; petalis 5, cuneato-oblongis, paulo 
brevioribus ; staminibus 6-7, petalis sequilongis. — Ceylon, 
V. s. in herb. Hook, (in sched. cum H. cuspidata) et in herb, meo 
(Gardner). 
The branchlets are more slender and more virgate than in 
H. cuspidata, the leaves more lanceolate ; the racemes are shorter, 
with fewer flowers, which are much smaller; the leaves are 
2-2^ inches long, 6-8 lines broad, on a petiole of 3 lines : the 
racemes are 4-5 lines long, the pedicels line ; the very 
small flowers have five outer bracteiform and three or four inner 
larger imbricated sepals, five petals, and six or seven stamens. 
8. Hyjjserpa trijlora, nob.; — Cocculus triflorus, DC. Syst. i. 529, 
Prodr. i. 99 ; — Limacia microphylla, Miq. ; — ramis scandenti- 
bus, teretibus, nitidis, glabris, striatis; ramulis divaricatis, 
rectis, cano tomentellis ; foliis parvis, oblongis, utrinque 
acutis, mucronulatis, undique fusco-viridibus, nitidis, glaber- 
rimis, pinnato-nerviis ; petiolo tenui, brevissimo, limbi vice- 
sima parte longitudinis : panicula ^ axillari, dichotome ramosa, 
2-4-llora ; folio 4-6plo breviore ; sepalis 9, quorum 3 interiori- 
bus majoribus, concavis, ovatis, cunctis glabris; petalis 6, 
brevioribus, oblongis ; staminibus 9. — Sumatra, v. s. in herb. 
Hook. ^ (Teysmann, sub nom. “Limacia microphylla, Miq.”). 
$ sec. cl. DC. in herb. Mus. Paris, e Java (Commerson). 
This species greatly resembles H. prcevaricata in the shape of 
its much smaller leaves; but these differ in being almost sessile, 
the petiole being extremely short : the flowers have the same 
number of stamens ; but their sepals are all quite glabrous. The 
male plant is evidently a climber, with straight rigid bi’anchlets, 
and with axils 10 lines apart : the leaves are dark, subcoriaceous, 
and rigid, 1^-lf inch long, 6 lines broad, on a petiole 1 line 
long ; the panicle is about 6 lines long, the pedicels 2 lines long, 
having a minute bract at base. 
9. Hypserpa unijiora, nob.; — ramulis teneribus, striatis, glabris; 
foliis oblongis, imo rotundatis, apicem versus gradatim acutis, 
acumine mucronato, supra basin triplinerviis, nervis tenuibus, 
reticulatis, pallide viridibus, utrinque glaberrimis; petiolo 
tenui, vix puberulo, limbo 4-5-plo breviore : pedunculis $ 
axillaribus, solitariis, unifloris, petiolo dimidio brevioribus, 
pubescentibus, alternatim tribracteolatis ; staminibus nullis; 
ovariis binis, glabris ; stylo brevissimo, crasso ; stigmate lato. 
