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vel bisinuatis, ultra medium sensim angustioribus, apice su- 
bito breviter constrictis, acumine acuto, canaliculatim recurvo, 
alternatim penninerviis, subcoriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis et 
concoloribus, reticulatis, nervo marginali cartilagineo undu- 
lato ; petiolo tereti, subtenui, apice tumidulo, glabro, limbo 
3-4-plo breviore : paniculis racemosis, 3-4, superpositis, e 
gemmula pilosa supra-axillaribus, petiolo 2-plo longioribus, 
pubescentibus; rachi tenui, puberula; ramis alternis, fili- 
formibus, bracteolatis, corymbulosis : vel inflorescentia e ramo 
novello, axillari, folds abortivis, paniculam magnam late et laxe 
ramosam mentiente; ramulis divaricatis, consimilibus, fasci- 
culatis ; floribus minutis, pedicellatis : racemis $ solitariis vel 
geminis, axillaribus, petiolo 2-plo longioribus ; rachi tomen- 
tosa; ramulis plurimis, approximatis, corymbose 5-floris; pe- 
dicellis alternis, caducis, drupam unicam perficientibus. — In 
Antillis, ^ , San Domingo (Poiteau), secund. clar. DeCandolle; 
V. s. in herb. Hook. (^, Villa Monteverde, Cuba (Wright, 1105), 
Domenica (Imray, 453) ; in herb. De Candolle ? , Guadaloupe 
(Krauss, 1615) ; $ in herb. Benth., Jamaica (Forsyth). 
DelesserPs figure corresponds well with the several other 
species of Hyperbana ; and though no analysis is given of its 
floral structure, there can be no doubt that the plant represented 
really belongs to this genus. The leaves in the several plants 
above referred to this species vary in size and in some measure 
in form, but they all present the same aspect : in the specimen 
from Guadaloupe they are smaller, and less rounded at base, all, 
however, maintaining the same proportional breadth and a rela- 
tive length of petiole. They are 2|-5 inches long, 1^-3 inches 
broad, on a petiole |-1|^ inch long. The panicles are 2-5 inches 
long, on a very slender rachis, with corymbulose alternate 
branches 4-6 lines long. Delessert’s drawing shows an inflores- 
cence consisting of a number of similar panicles growing out of 
the axils of a young branch, from which the leaves have fallen, 
and it thus assumes the appearance of a very lax and compound 
panicle of considerable size. The flowers are extremely small, 
measuring only half a line when expanded ; there are six sepals, 
with one or two bracts at base ; they are all pale and membrana- 
ceous, the three outer somewhat shorter, with a few hairs out- 
side, the three inner ones being nearly orbicular and quite gla- 
brous ; six scale- like, orbicular, membranaceous petals, only one- 
fourth the length of the sepals, and six stamens as long as the 
petals. The $ panicles are 1^-2 inches long, with several short 
branches, bracteolated at their origin, 1-2 lines apart, 4 lines 
long, bearing about five flowers on pedicels 1-1-^ line long; 
the peduncle and pedicels thicken much as the fruit matures ; 
but many of the ovaries wither, and often only a single drupe 
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