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9 lines long in the (j' , 12 lines long in the ? : frequently the 
peduncles of four panicles, distinctly superimposed in a straight 
line above the base of the petiole, issue from the branch ; they 
are l^-l^ inch long, with alternate branches barely 1 line long, 
hearing at their apex three almost sessile minute flowers, which 
have completely the structure of the order : the ? inflorescence 
is quite the same in all respects, except that it consists of simple 
racemes, not panicles, each rachis with pedicels bearing only a 
single flower instead of a small capitulum of three flowers. 
10. Hijperbana valida, nob. ; — Hyperbaena reticulata, Benth. 1. c. 
50; — Pachygone Domingensis, Eichl. 1. c. 198; — ramulis 
validis, pallidis, glabris, substriolatis, inter nodos subcupu- 
losos subflexUosis ; folds oblongis, imo obtusis, ultra medium 
sensim angustioribus, apice acutis aut obtusiuscule attenuatis, 
calloso mucronulatis, valde coriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis, 
supra recurvatim canaliculatis, nitidis, penninerviis, nervis 
utrinque 8 vel 9, tenuibus et arcuatim nexis, paulo promi- 
nulis, marginibus cartilagineis, revolutis, supra pallidis, subtus 
concoloribus, creberrime et prominule reticulatis; petiolo 
valido, rigido, curvato, cum cupula nodosa articulato, su- 
perne subcanaliculato, limbo 8-10-plo breviore : pedunculo 
$ petiolo breviore, 2-3-floro ; drupa pedicellata, oblonga, ex- 
sicca, glabra ; putamine coriaceo, crasso ; condylo intra locu- 
lum breviter et oblique septiformi. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. 
Hook., Jamaica (Purdie). 
A well-marked species, allied to H. Moricandii, but with nar- 
rower leaves, not suddenly attenuated at summit, less rounded 
at base, and on a stronger petiole of half the length ; it is ex- 
tremely different from H. Domingensis in the size and shape of 
its leaves and petioles, and in its much larger fruit, on a stouter 
peduncle and pedicel. Its internodes are |-| inch long; the 
gutter-shaped leaves, with an arching midrib, are thick and 
shining, 4— 4^ inches long, I|-l| inch broad, with two delicate 
basal nervures which run parallel with the margin for nearly 
half its length, and six very slender divergent nerves on each 
side of the midrib ; the very stout curved petiole is about 6 lines 
long ; the fructiferous peduncle is 3 lines long, having a single 
remaining pedicel 2 lines long; the drupe is nearly an inch 
long, I inch in diameter, with a hard thick sarcocarp and a 
coriaceous putamen, having a strong septiform condyle directed 
obliquely nearly halfway into the centre of the cell. 
1 1 . Hgperbcena longiuscula, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, striatis ; 
foliis lanceolatis, imo longe cuneatis, ultra medium gradatim 
acutatis, acumine subobtuso, coriaceis, utrinque glaberrimis. 
