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alternatim penninerviis, nervis tenuissimis divaricatis, venis- 
que conspicue reticulatis, utrinque omnino immersis, supra 
subpallidis, nitidis, subtus pallidioribus, costa pallida, vix 
prominente, marginibus incrassatis ; petiolo ruguloso, glabro, 
subtenui, limbo 5-8-plo breviore : racemis $ axillaribus, soli- 
tariis, geminis vel ternis, in fructu petiolo sequilongis aut 
paulo longioribus ; rachi iucrassata ; pedicellis brevissimis, 
paucis, alternis, apice receptaculo globoso incrassatis j drupa 
ea prsecedentis 3-plo minore, subglobosa ; putamine coriaceo, 
subtenui, subscrobiculato, condylo valido, septiformi, fere ad 
medium loculi protenso ; radicula minutissima. — In Cuba ; 
V. s. in herb. Mus, Brit., Cuba (Wright, 1854). 
A species differing from all the preceding in the shape and 
texture of its leaves ; the axils are inch apart ; the leaves are 
3-5 inches long, l-lj ineh broad, on a petiole 6-8 lines long; 
the fructiferous racemes are ^-1 inch long, bearing from three 
to five fructiferous pedicels, scarcely 1 line long, terminated by a 
clavate receptacle 1-1 1 line in diameter; the putamen, covered 
by a very thin dry sarcocarp, is coriaceous, of rather thin tex- 
ture, 4 lines long, 3^ lines broad, the septiform condyle extend- 
ing 1^ line within the cell; the fleshy exalbuminous eotyledons 
fill the cell, conjoined by an extremely minute radicle. 
12. Hyperbcma cuneifolia, nob. ; — ramulis teretibus, vix striolatis, 
pallidulis; folds valde cuneatis, elliptico-oblongis, apice ro- 
tundiusculis, valde eoriaceis, margine cartilagineo, omnino 
glaberrimis, supra subnitentibus, penninerviis, nervis venisque 
reticulatis plane immersis et vix distinctis, pallide viridibus, 
subtus pallidioribus, eveniis, nervo medio flavido vix promi- 
nulo, margine cartilagineo subrevoluto ; petiolo tereti, striato, 
apice rugoso et tumidulo, flavido, glabro, limbo 6-plo breviore, 
e cupula nodosa articulato : racemo ^ axillari, petiolo 2-plo 
longiore, rufo puberulo, floribus breviter pedicellatis, crebre 
alternis et bracteolatis : racemis ? axillaribus, solitariis vel 
binis, petiolo 2-plo longioribus; raehi subvalida, brevissime 
puberula; floribus alternis, fere sessilibus; drupis brevis- 
sime pedieellatis, glabris, subglobosis; putamine transversim 
subovali, compresso, cartilagineo, lineis punctatis hippocrepicis 
sulcoque e basi brevi notato ; condylo septiformi, brevi, loculo 
hinc reniformi breviter interrupto; cotyledonibus amplis, 
carnosis; radicula minuta et acuta, ad hilum spectante. — In 
Cuba : V. s. in herb. Hook., Villa Monte Verde, Cuba orient. $ 
(Wright, 1104); J', Cuba (Wright, 1853); in herb. Mus. 
Brit. et $ , Cuba (Wright, 1853). 
This is very distinct from all others, and extremely different 
from another species collected by Wright in the same locality 
