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(his No. 1105). The nodes are 4-10 lines distant; the leaves 
l|-2^ inches long, f inch broad, on a petiole 4 lines long. 
The ? raceme is 1-1 j inch long; the pedicels, 1-2 lines apart, 
^-1 line long, are scabridly tomentose, and support a drupe 
about 7 lines in diameter, the remains of the style being 2 lines 
above the basal point of insertion ; the putamen is 4| lines long 
from the base, 5 lines broad, and 3^ lines deep ; the condyle, 
obliquely septiform, is formed, as in H. Domingensis, by the 
duplicature of the placentary lamina, and separates the base of 
the cell into two pouches for about one-third of its length ; the 
cotyledons, filling the space of the cell, are very fleshy and 
Innately incurved round the septiform condyle, to the extremity 
of which the integument is attached : this structure is quite in 
conformity with that of the genus. 
13. Hyperbcena crebriflora, nob.; — ramulis pallidis, striatis, ju- 
nioribus subpuberulis ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis,imo rotundis, 
summuni versus gradatim et curvatim angustioribus, apice 
obtusis, subcoriaceis, Isete viridibus, nitidis, omnino penni- 
nerviis, nervis alternis utrinque 8 venisque valde reticulatis 
subimmersis, utrinque glaberrimis, subtus concoloribus, nervis 
venisque magis manifestis, nervo marginali cartilagineo, un- 
dulato, subrevoluto, costa circa basin pubescente; petiolo 
striato, subpuberulo, limbo 7-plo breviore : racemulis $ axil- 
laribus, 3, fasciculatis, petiolo paulo ' brevioribus ; pedicellis 
plurimis, 1-floris, crebre alternis, capitulum oblongum con- 
ficientibus, floribus omnino glaberrimis : racemis $ similibus, 
pedunculo bracteisque pubescentibus, pedicellis floribusque 
glabris; sepalis 9; petalis 6, oblongis, integris; staminib’us 6; 
ovariis 3, glabris, stigmate tereti, subito horizontaliter deflexo. 
— In Cuba : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit, c? et ? (Wright, 1855). 
This and the two following species ought to constitute a dis- 
tinct section of the genus, which might be termed “ crebriflora,” 
distinguished by the inflorescence in both sexes being condensed 
into a very short, sessile, spicated head of numerous closely 
aggregated flowers, altogether not longer than the short petiole, 
while in all the preceding species the ^ inflorescence is in the 
form of an elongated slender paniculated raceme. As I can 
perceive no difi’erence in the structure of the flower in either 
sex, I have plaeed these plants in Hyperbana until the structure 
of the fruit is known. In this species there is a difi’erence in 
the size and texture of the leaves in the two sexes, those of the 
$ being broader, with the rounded base obsoletely cordate, with 
more prominent reticulations. In the ^ plant the leaves are 
l|-3^ inches long, 9-15 lines broad, on a petiole 4-5 lines 
long ; in the ? specimen they are 3f inches long, 19 lines broad. 
