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siore, limbo 5-plo breviore ; paniculis ^ racemosis, 2-4, su- 
perpositis, e gemmula pilosa supra-axillari ortis folio, paulo 
brevioribus ; racbi gracili ramisque alternatim gerainis bre- 
viusculis subcorymbosis, parce puberulis ; pedicellis floribus- 
que glabris. — In Brasilia: v. s. in herb. Hook. ^ , Ilbeos 
(Moricand, 2346). 
Mr. Bentbam {loc. supra cit.) founded a species, H. reticulata, 
on the Cocculus reticulatus, Mart., wbicb is a species of Anomo- 
spet'mum, amalgamating with it, as two varieties, my H. Mori- 
candii, Mexicana, Hostmanni, graciliflora, and valida ; but tbeir 
characters, which are now given at some length, show how much 
they differ from one another. This species, very distinct from 
the former, has its leaves about 5 inches long and 2 inches broad, 
on a petiole |-1 inch long. From two to four panicles spring 
from a hairy tuft 2 lines above the insertion of the petiole; 
their very slender rachis is about 5 inches long, and their gemi- 
nate corymbose branchlets, about 2 lines apart, are 3-4 lines 
long; the sepals are cuneately obovate, entire, with glandular 
dots in the centre; the petals, spathulately oblong, half their 
length, are entire, and not introilected ; the stamens, fixed on 
the central receptacle, are equal in length to the petals. 
4. Hyperbana Hostmanni, nob. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. vii. 44; 
Hyperbsena reticulata, Benth. [inparte] Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 2nd 
Suppl. 50; — Anelasma minutiflora, Sagot, MS.-, — Pachygone 
Domingensis, Eichl. {in parte) in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. xxxviii. 
p. 197, tab. 47. fig. 2; — ramulis junioribus striolatis, rufes- 
cente puberulis, demum glabris; folds oblongo-ovatis, imo 
rotundatis, apice repente attennatis, acumine brevi angusto 
obtusulo et mucronato, a basi pinnato-nerviis, nervis utrinque 
5 arcuatim nexis, marginibus integris, subrevolutis, supra 
pallidis, nitidis, utrinque glaberrimis, subtus rufo-pallidis, 
opacis, sub lente reticulato-venosis ; petiolo subtenui, apice 
rugoso et tumidulo, superne piloso, limbo 6-plo breviore : 
paniculis ^ solitariis, racemosis, e gemmiula longe supra-axil- 
lari ortis (interdum terminalibus), folio longioribus vel bre- 
vioribus ; racbi, ramis brevibus ramulisque ferrugineo tomen- 
tosis, ramulis flores circiter 3 alternos pedicellatos gerentibus ; 
sepalis 3 externis bracteiformibus pilosis, 3 interioribus duplo 
longioribus, cuneato-ovatis, membranaceis, glabris ; petalis 6, 
cuneato-oblongis, dimidio brevioribus, planis, glabris; stami- 
nibus 6, his brevioribus ; antheris 2-lobis, lobis lateralibus 
sejunctis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. — In Guiana : v. s. in 
herb. Hook. J', Surinam (Hostmann, 1050), Mana, Guienne 
Frau 9 aise (Sagot, 833). 
This species appears to me very distinct from H. graciliflora, 
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